I'm still waiting for Dana to rail about voters voting race. Oh, wait, it's blacks so it's OK.

Huh. I wonder why Sen. McCain hasn't grown any taller, after voting for himself all these years...

I think what these guys are trying to grow two inches on isn't their height.

I was right. He is trying to compensate for his shortcomings. This is Lou Aguilar's sole credit:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800329371/info

And it didn't even make it to DVD!

The real test will be to have both men pull "it" out at the first debate. Whoever has the bigger "it" should be the next president.

Note to Obama: no need to humiliate the man. Just take out enough to win.

Where did this kind of crap come from? I really don't remember anybody talking like this, and I suspect nobody thought like this, back when I was a kid (50's give or take a bit). Can't imagine Truman or Eisenhower or Nimitz rolling in this mud.

It's like some time in the 70's somebody on the left, or in the "enlightened" media came up with some crude paradies of people they didn't understand or like and in retaliation a whole lot of guys have chosen to try to treat the parody as some kind of badge of honor.

This is fantastic! If a name like Barack Obama is "elitist," it must confer the advantages of being in the elite, ruling classes of this country! Maybe that means there is hope for me, too, to be seen as part of the "in crowd." I too, have a cool, elitist name, unlike poor John McCain, whose name shouts out that he is part of the oppressed underclasses.

Or, to cease being facetious-- what does the Right even think the word "elitist" means, and what do they think its relationship to the word "elite" is? Because it really seems weird to me that a black guy in the USA, who used to work as a community organizer in the the inner city, keeps getting called "elitist."

what does the Right even think the word "elitist" means

Since they don't seem to think George W. Bush is elitist, I think it's "Northern," "well-informed," or "intelligent."

Seriously, read this on W. at Yale:

Despite the fraternity fun that Bush enjoyed, the Yale of the 1960s was becoming more serious and intellectual. Bush insists that college was a great time in his life, but somewhere along the way he grew to detest the elitist Yale attitude. According to the New York Times, Bush later complained about the "self-righteousness" and "intellectual superiority" of East Coast liberal establishment that took over places like Yale in the 1960s. Frats were looked down upon as frivolous and immature during the tumultuous 1960s, as students protested passionately for radical causes.

To Bush, "elitist" meant "smart people who wouldn't give me my due as a princeling."

This is standard fare for the National Review. It's a bunch of dorks who used to get the crap kicked out of them in high school because they wore black socks to gym class, and so the concept of "manliness" is very important to them, mostly because they can never obtain it themselves

McCain himself could use growing another couple inches.

"... to provide MASH-style units to disaster-torn world regions. Did I mention that she’s a beer heiress?"

Yes, you did. But you failed to mention that Cindy McCain, beer heiress, stole drugs from those same "MASH-style unites" to feed her addiction.

Jesus wept.

"Obama supports higher taxes for a government-run nanny state that will coddle all Americans like babies. McCain trusts people to spend their less-taxed money however they wish. "

Conservatives like to pretend that all Americans are naturally financially secure, but the government is taxing them into poverty. In the backs of their minds, there really is an urge to just let the poor starve.

I don't know...that "Beer Heiress" thing is pretty cool. I'm no John McCain guy, but if his life is BBQs, drinking, and the occasional Senate vote, that's a pretty good life by my lights.

Wow, I was sure this would have appeared at Townhall.com or something. This is unusually stupid for National Review standards.

this guy is a fraud.

real men KNOW die hard--

it's mclane, not mclain.

I don't know...that "Beer Heiress" thing is pretty cool. I'm no John McCain guy, but if his life is BBQs, drinking, and the occasional Senate vote, that's a pretty good life by my lights.

I'd have to say you're right. Fortunately for McCain, it doesn't look like that life's gonna get all messed up by doing President-stuff. As the man said himself, next year it's back to the Senate.

die hard villains are always terrorists.

so he's saying obama sounds like a terrorist. and that's why real men won't vote for him.

can we give this cunt a pulitzer and get it over with? the analysis just cuts so deep.

Uh, "grow two inches taller"?

Try two inches longer - that may actually swing some white male votes. And a bottle of vicodin in every cabinet.

Aguilar also notes that McCain is endorsed by Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, while Obama gets Leonardo DiCaprio ...

I'll give him Eastwood on the manliness thing, but why do conservatives go after Leo? The guy bones supermodels. What else do you need?

Besides, it's been a decade since Titanic, and Leo's been in Gangs of New York, The Departed, and Blood Diamond -- not exactly girly roles.

The Guvernator, meanwhile, has been in pure self-parody mode since T2, and Sly likewise hasn't been manly since "Cobra" in 1986. But, hey, there's nothing manlier that botox and body sculpting.

Drat! Late to the party again. rdg is right, and the NRO wanker probably never even saw Die Hard.

why do conservatives go after Leo? The guy bones supermodels. What else do you need?

In the right-wing mindset, thinking about and having sex with women and being desired by women is considered "gay."

I think Aguilar's trying to confuse people about what happens when you vote for someone. When you vote, you help decide who will become president, you don't BECOME that person. So, while it might be cool to marry a beer heiress (though it's easier to find people who serve beer), you do not become the husband of a beer heiress if you vote for McCain.

O yea. Thats right. Aguilar's trying to confuse people about what happens when you vote for someone. When you vote, you help decide who will become president, you don't BECOME that person. So, while it might be cool to marry a beer heiress (though it's easier to find people who serve beer), you do not become the husband of a beer heiress if you vote for McCain.

An important point that gets largely overlooked in the macho universe is that McCain abandoned his wife in favor of the beer heiress...

A lot of folks think manliness means "able to kick butt..."; when it really means "accepting your responsibilities and keep your promises"...

"Real men" don't need anyone else to tell them that they are real. That question never enters their head in the first place.

If you have to make a list, you're probably not on it.

"Johnathon Sydney McCain III: Action Hero"

An unrelated question: why do right-wing welfare cases never permit commenting on their blogs. Is it cowardice, insularity, or technical incompetence? Or all three?