Little Old Lady Suggests McCain VP Pick To Standing Ovation
You know, if you’ve never done it, you should at least once a month have a good conversation with a senior citizen. Someone who’s been around the block a few times, and was able to vote when gathering around the radio in the evenings was the thing families did…make sure they’re not suffering from Dementia, like my dear old Grandma was…God bless her, every now and then she’d look at my Ma, her only child, and say “And who are you again, dear?”
I kid you not, I truly believe that my Grandma was one of the happiest people in the world in her Dementia, always laughing and smiling and asking your name and where you went to school and all of that. Despite being “out of touch” with reality, I know..I know she was happy as a clam.
Anyway, not saying this nice little old lady was demented or senile, I don’t think she was and here is the story as related by Jonathan Martin over et The Politico today…
A priceless moment from McCain’s town hall in Nashville this afternoon.
An elderly white-haired lady named Marguerite Campbell from Columbia, Tennessee, sat right in front of the stage and waited patiently until she finally got her turn at the mic.
The exchange went something like this:
Campbell: “Sen. McCain, have you chosen your vice-president?”
McCain: “No, m’am, I have not.”
Campbell: “May I make a suggestion”
McCain: “Can I say, I’ve had a few. I could always use another.”
Campbell: “Now, from the state of Tennessee that kept Albert Gore from being president [loud applause] my suggestion to you, our good friend, Fred Thompson [loud and sustained standing ovation]
McCain: [Smiling widely, puts cordless mic under chin and looks upward, keeps smiling] “I kind of got the impression that if he were the candidate, I wouldn’t have to spend a lot of time in Tennessee.”
Fred, just a few paces stage right from McCain, was about the only person aside from the press corps who remained seated.
Campbell said after the event that she liked Thompson because of his grasp of the Constitution.
She also, unprompted, told me this: “If we had the same news media then that we do now, we’d still be speaking German or Japan[ese]”
(Politico)
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Fred would bring some conservative credibility to the ticket but I don’t think he gives the ticket anything else. If Mac would make a “one term” pledge, I’d support this idea. I expect that executive experience and gender will be the key to his choice. I expect Palin from Alaska to get the nod.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:02 pmFookin’ A. If he chose Fred, I might be able to vote *for* McCain instead of voting *against* O’Hussein.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:17 pmI like both the Palin and Thompson choices.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:23 pmI do like Fred Thompson’s straight talk, love the fact that he is pretty close to a true Southern Conservative, and I would definitely love the debates…however, I like Mike, though I understand what that would do to the ticket. My vote is for McCain, regardless of his VP.
McCain is a Patriot in my book…
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:25 pmI love Thompson but I don’t think he’d be a good choice for VP. The dummcrats/MSM will hammer and hammer and hammer the fact that both our choices are “old” white guys. In no way shape or form will they bring up any issues American’s should be discussing and will focus their debate on “old white guys”.
Yes I realize their argument is shallow but does anyone believe the uniformed or dumb won’t buy in to it?
All that being said I really hope there is room on McCain’s staff for Thompson. The man is a tremendous asset and I’d hate to see his knowledge and judgement go to waste.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:35 pmI think he should choose ME for VP.
A) I’m more conservative than Fred
B) I’m younger than Fred
C) I could use the pay raise
D) I’d declare a crusade against Islam and throw all the bastards in internment camps until the foreign muslims were 1)killed 2)converted or 3) killed.
I vote for me….
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:38 pmI would definitely like to see Thompson as VP, as for Sarah Palin, i would like to see her anywhere
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:48 pmThose of us from Florida just want him to tap Charlie Crist for VP to get that dumbass out of the state.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 pmJarhead68, If you’re more Conservative than Fred, you’d have my vote too!
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:55 pmThe reason I’d most like to see Palin in there is she might be able to talk some sense in to that dumbass’ head about global warming and opening up ANWR!
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pmA vote for me is a vote for Rush…and he’s to liberal for me.
The first thing I would do as VP is to get my staff to put together all the debunking information about “climate change” and tell them, “I want to make Algore look like the fool he is. We are going to blitz the media with the real science and put the screws to the “carbon credit” faux industry.
Second, I would invent the neo-internet that would replace Algore’s internet. The neo-internet would be faster and would have a bullshit detector that would filter out Daily Kos, Media Matters, MyDD and MoveOn.org from every PC in the world. Oh, and also all the muslim propaganda sites would be shut down and all the proprietors sent to Gitmo for indoctrination. Sound fascist? Well, when dealing with fascists, sometimes you fight fire with fire. Roosevelt and Wilson did it…and they were Democrats.
Oh, and Olbermann would be relegated to the local DC weather channel where he would only be allowed to talk about weather. He could blame it on Bush, if he so chose, but no politics.
End of pipe dream….
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:16 pmJarhead has my vote.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:35 pmJarhead…could ya’ do anything about my taxes???
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pmI’d like to see a Thompson / Palin ticket with McCain as SecState.
Is it too late for that?
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:00 pmJarhead68, you’d get my vote. I like the internment camp idea
. One suggestion, Revert the northern fifth of Alaska back to territorial status- non statehood (Alaskans willing), for the reason of insufficient tax base. Build the internment camps in that Arctic Circle and relocate Gitmo there as well. Relax the restrictions on oil and mining too.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pmThe job of the VP is to preside over the Senate .. who better than the man selected to introduce Chief Justice John Stevens to the members of the Judiciary Committee?
Fred certainly knows the Senate and the ways of DC. He was my choice for the top of the ticket … but I’ll settle for #2
Sorry Jarhead!
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:20 pmat jarhead - Damned I like that point D. I’d vote you POTUS on that alone.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm“McCain is a Patriot in my book…” What are you reading? Tell me, I need a laugh.
A patriot does not give amnesty to 12-20 million illegal trespassers, give Constitutional rights to enemy combatants, cap trade to destroy our economy, attempt to disarm us or restrict our first amendment rights with campaign finance frivolity ala McStain/Feintbull.
The Lame Stream Media and D’rats have selected Juan McCain to be the nominee but they cannot convince me it is possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
I may be forced to vote for the SOB (against D’rat} but I’ll be counting the days down to 2012. Give me a Conservative who would enjoy eviscerating a communist, a jihadist or a D’rat every day.
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 pmjarhead68 is my choice….what a platform!!!!!
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pmpatriot noun One who loves and defends his or her country
That book would be a dictionary.
I don’t think we’ll ever have a candidate that I agree with on everything. McCain wasn’t my choice out of the Repubs. Though I don’t agree with everything he represents, I could never question his patriotism.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:30 pmPersonally I’d like to see David M. Walker made Vp.
Hell I’d settle for any fiscal conservative, but I do not beleive there are any left within teh Republican Party.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qaSuL9L_G2w
Yes he was originally appointed by Clinton, yes also he’s currently more conservative in teh traditional sense then anyone currently in the Republican party.
Hell I’d vote for him for President over anyone currently running. If he wanted it.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:41 pmReagan of course predicted what walker is talking about now.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 pmBut one thing I gotta tell ya…
(I rarely comment but I want to say this)…
Take what you said and just interchange the names & affiliations, like this, and you have exactly what the dems are after, via soros and the Fairness Doctrine, watch…you wrote:
“Second, I would invent the neo-internet that would replace Algore’s internet. The neo-internet would be faster and would have a bullshit detector that would filter out (Daily Kos, Media Matters, MyDD and MoveOn.org) PatDollard.com, Hot Air, Little Green Footballs, Jihad Watch, and Newsbusters from every PC in the world. Oh, and also all the (muslim) anti-muslim propaganda sites would be shut down and all the proprietors sent to Gitmo for indoctrination…
Oh, and (Olbermann) O’Reilly/Hannity/Rush would be relegated to the local DC weather channel where they would only be allowed to talk about weather. They could blame it on (Bush) Obama, if they so chose, but no politics.”
Dude…this is exactly what the Fairness Doctrine these left wing liberal lunatics want to push into our media.
In your case, we get a good chuckle and know that as much as we’d like to see that happen, it won’t.
In the libtards case…it is a very real possibility with the fairness Doctrine.
We cannot allow this.
Jarhead68 for VP! Hurry the fuck up, bro!
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 pmI like Palin, or Jindal, or Romney!
All I know is no one’s gonna come close to Dick Cheney. He rocks.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm