McCaskill was stepping out of her chair at the end of an MSNBC interview, and Romney was up next. She and a staffer unplugged her various wires, and she handed Romney the earpiece the guests use to hear the host.

“I spit on this before I put it in,” she said to Romney, with a sweet smile.

UPDATE: Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom emails: “You should have seen what she did to the chair.”

I read that a while ago, too. I worked my way reading about a hundred or so down through the comments, then had to stop and take care of other things…but what I was thinking, I know couldn’t be published on any decent website, so I didn’t comment there (“Politico”, that story).

I’ll just leave it at that I think Romney showed incredible decency in that moment. As to McCaskill and her remark to Romney, I now have to again censor what I’m thinking…

Lieberman will be in and out of Florida the next few weeks. He and Palin will deliver it for McCain. Elsewhere, Lieberman could pick up votes for McCain but it won’t make a difference. Jewish voters are concerned with Obama’s ties to the Palestinians and Lieberman can get that message across in Florida.

grdred944 on October 7, 2008 at 7:41 PM

Who here has seen PATTON (the film)? There’s this scene where Patton explains to his aide how he knows that the enemy is losing — “oxcarts,” he says, “they’re pulling/using oxcarts.”

So it goes with reading the screed from the Left. I notice an uptake in certain accusations (baseless, often hideous, routinely irrational) from the Left about Republicans, and in the last two days, it’s been “you’re an anti-Semite” or “are you a Holocaust denier” and various rubrics of that same caustic stuff.

Those accusations are serious ones (d’oh) and appropriate ones when encountering anyone who is (d’oh) engaged IN “Holocaust denying” and negtive stereotyping for purposes of railing on about “the Joooos.”

BUT, when I read and hear these accusations (on the internet, today on television broadcasts from a few Obama supporters) IN THE CONTEXT OF general pejoratives about the Right, I think of that scene from PATTON: you can tell they’re losing in a particular area (in this case, sensing the growing, realistic, well-placed doubts as to Obama where Isreal is concerned, also as to our U.S. national security, as related) when they start flinging those particular accusations about, it indicates desperation.

I enjoyed Lieberman on FOX the other day and also think he’d be great on that network more often (hope he returns more often). And I surely hope he makes a difference for McCain in Florida (and I think that he can and will).

I also note that the Obama Leftists ridicule Lieberman. So, there’s those oxcarts.

McCaskill was stepping out of her chair at the end of an MSNBC interview, and Romney was up next. She and a staffer unplugged her various wires, and she handed Romney the earpiece the guests use to hear the host.

“I spit on this before I put it in,” she said to Romney, with a sweet smile.

UPDATE: Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom emails: “You should have seen what she did to the chair.”

I don’t know, Palin has all the fire and Mac seems worn out, even though Obimbo sounded like a complete idiot.

If Obie wins, this nation is in for a collective rolling. Damn.

I have a wish-list of guns I’ve always wanted and now I need to pick and choose which ones I can afford; they are going to go away if Obambo wins.

My wife wants to go to bed early. I want see if that old abandoned cabin out in the woods is still standing for me to hide in for the next 4 years.

Attended some of the first SDS meetings. Two casual acquaintances from UofD ended up on posters at the Post Office. Trust me when I tell you this, most of us sobered up by the early seventies. Not the Weathermen, Ayers and crew were losers of the first order. In fact back then it was the women that were the most vocal and violent. Dohrn was the real leader.

Virtually everything that is equated to the 60′s today was really an outgrowth of the 50′s bohemian movement originating in SF and NYC. All the good and bad that has come came out of those times, and it was coming no matter what. The radicals just thought they actually had something to do with it. They did not. The Weather Underground were first and foremost delusional punk criminals.

As someone who lived through those times I would not trade the 60′s for anything. Because of my age, college etc it was the most profound life changing period. Most everything since seems tame by comparison.

And I have not even mentioned the music!

I totally agree with you Matt. I think a little struggle and adversity in life breeds a more appreciative citizen. Although I am glad I have not had to endure the hardships of past generations, there is something to be said for what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Unfortunately, too many in the last two generations are going to have to actually encounter adversity, probably via an Obama administration, before they understand the great privledge it is to be born an American.

I believe this is a generation of people, the leftists, who are self-absorbed and don’t care for this country the way previous generations have. I don’t think they believe in sacrifice hard work, or personal responsibility. I also don’t feel they have a connection with God or the true history of our nation. I think they hold America in contempt and would like nothing more than to chew away the foundation of the very society that created them and the comforts they enjoy. church on October 7, 2008 at 8:25 PM

Forgive my snipping some of your post, but you’re right. The generations from the boomers on have really known nothing but relative prosperity and security–we’ve never had to face really hard times and never really had our backs to the wall as the “Greatest Generation” did or those who settled the West or fought the Civil War etc. As a result, there’s a tendency amongst many of us to take our freedom and prosperity and peace for granted. That’s a very dangerous conceit–and one that has the potential of bearing very bitter fruit indeed.

“Senator, what did you think of the OJ verdict?”

It would open up a view of Barry’s character that would be instructive.