Andonyx
Isn't that pretty much the most apt metaphor for Republican foreign policy?

Prop up some petty politician with big ambition against your opponent and then act surprised when that same person turns around and bites the hand that feeds it?

For a man touting his foreign policy experience and hands-on involvement with so much US foreign policy you would have thought he'd see that coming.

chumbucket
Nov 5: Mccain closes office door, sits at desk, opens desk drawer, there sits a revolver....

IrishWhiskey
....he spins the chamber, cocks back the trigger, and raises it to his mouth...

...giving the cold steel a gentle kiss.
"Come on, Betsy. We got work to do. 'My friends' are going to learn, you don't screw over the Maverick."

citrusmirakel
Possibly, but if it is tact, it's bad tact, since national politics means a whole lot of powerful angry elephants who never forget.

fatatty
If McCain had have done any research on her he would have seen that her entire political career, from City Council onward, consisted of her being put in a position of power by some old white dude for short term political advantage. She then stabs said old white dude in the back and climbs over him to the next rung. McCain is just the latest old white rung on her ladder into our hearts.

Rodents of Unusual Size
Looks like McCain and his soulmate are having a Maverick off!

Rovin
It isn't so much a severed ties moment as it is an admission of the very real prospect of loss being acknowledged with a sort of shrug and statement of, "Doesn't matter much, it's made me visible, so I'll take advantage of it to continue my career in politics on the national scale."

citrusmirakel
There's some hyperbole in here, yes.

Essentially, it's a statement made by someone with no sense of political decorum, tact, or... you know, intellect. The statement was (paraphrased and better worded)"I want to be a political contender, and I'm not leaving national politics if we lose."

Which, duh, but you're just not supposed to say "if we lose."

I just wonder how interesting Bill Ayers will be four years from now.

IrishWhiskey
Its an 'if we lose' rather than a 'when we lose', but its still something she was specifically told by the McCain campaign not to say, at least until Nov 5th. Also the response is funny.

And I disagree with citrusmiakel. Its a statement made by a person who has been building a structure in Iowa rather than helping McCain. It was made by a person who for every step of her career betrayed the people who had helped her get to the top. It was made by a person naive about policy matters, not political ambition. It was made by Sarah "Barracuda".

kennydra
OH SHIT.

yoyo1
PALIN/LORD HUMONGOUS 2012

IrishWhiskey
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a flirtatious wink

Comeuppance
You betcha.
*wink*


[The End.]

Caminante Nocturno
CLINTON/GIANT NAKED ALBINO JAPANESE GIRL '12

Dinkin Flicka
Technically it's not the end, it's a rebirth. Much of the land will be drenched in blood to make way for the new. But since only women give birth these days, it makes perfect sense that it would be directly linked to Palin taking over

Tstyle
I hope she runs every 4 years. Then the GOP base will perpetually split between the truly stupid and the simply misguided.

theSnake
I think you mean 2016, brohan.

Frank Rizzo
Her husband

Dinkin Flicka
Levi Hockey Johnson

Rodents of Unusual Size
Yes. The tabloids.

Camonk
A competent politician who doesn't care if she screws her current running mate would see it coming and glom onto it. I don't think Palin is particularly bright or competent, but she knows how to sell herself. She's been sharpening her shivs for weeks, and McCain is going to suffer behind this pick. He's just lucky she's not from Arizona. If she were, she'd be gunning for his seat, next.