Other potential non-answers:

Q: Was the McCain campaign dignified?
A: You're using "gotcha journalism."

Q: Was the McCain campaign dignified?
A: In what respect, Charlie?

Q: Was the McCain campaign dignified?
A: A black guy attacked me.

Q: Was the McCain campaign dignified?
A: Orange.

MITT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How could the Republican party have kicked this guy to the curb?

Seriously -- he shouldn't have beent he #2 to McCain, he should have been the #1.

(And my bet is that he's the choice in 2012, not Palin -- particularly after the mystery-baby storybblows up in her winky-winky face.)

I think my most unhappy day in this entire election was when Mitt had to bow out. He was the Spiro Agnew of a new generation.

(For you kids out there, Spiro was one of a kind. At least until he had to resign as Nixon's V.P. for breaking the law.)

Wow, what an amazing dodge and spin.

Pretty revolting. What in the world does "Presidential" mean?

And what is it about McCain that would keep us more secure? I'd really like to know--is it the bomb, bomb, bomb Iran that comforted him?
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BTW, this is entirely off-topic, but I am watching the weather forecasts for some of the key swing states like Virginia. Looks like it's gonna be pretty darn rainy there tomorrow. Elsewhere perhaps as well (North Carolina?).

Sure hope folks bring their rain-gear and patience.

"Well, what I'd characterize the entire campaign as is extraordinarily negative on the part of Barack Obama."

What sort of alternative universe are these people living in?

They geared this entire campaign on the most extreme elemnet of their base and had no escape plan for when it didn't work. Now they just sound unhinged. "extraordinarily negative on the part of Barack Obama." That flabbergasts me...and I don't flabbergst that easily.

As a former MA resident under Romney, I think he would've been a good GOP VP choice. Unlike Sarah Palin, Romney actually had to do work in his population dense state and had to work with the reigning Dems in the State Legislature.

However, like McCain, he had to change his stripes to run in the Presidential election. Instead of being a more moderate Republican, he had to swing to be the neo-con poster boy.

At least I can thank Palin for being the neo-con's perfect poster girl: she had the beliefs and "morals" she just lacked any skill required for the position.

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A day or two before the election and GOP operatives are being asked this sort of question.

No news reporting, no interviews of Muslim Americans or Blacks to find out what a campaign based on smear and innuendo meant to marginalize minorities and feed a racist sentiment in the electorate does to the esteem of the community. No research to see what affects a campaign like this does to perceptions of minorities.

Just ask members of the party that are notorious for these acts if they would categorize these tactics as repulsive. Which they won't respond to. That way, four years from now they can use the same tactics at the expense of minorities and no one has to bat an eye lash at the damage it may actually be causing.

Was it dignified? It was presidential.

Wasn't it Bush who said he would bring dignity back to the White House? But then, what would Romney know about dignity.

Speaking of great politicians...it's Ralph!!!

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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!

(Ralph Nader is to politics what the contents of your stomach is to a toilet. If he'd ever get off the freaking stage we might have a shot at a serious third-party candidate who wasn't a nut job. And yes, Ross, you were a nut job, too.)

Oooh, I cannot WAIT to hear Bible Spice ripping the Mittster for being not a Christian during the 2012 primaries, and Mr. Magic Underwear responding by challenging her to a governor-off.

Off topic, but: Has anyone else noticed how blatantly both McCain and Palin talk about the danger of a "Democrat" president and "Democrat" Congress. Assholes.

Yet there was Chris Matthews going out of his way to give McCain credit for not overtly playing the race card and bringing up Rev. Wright.

Mitt Romney will make a fine Secretary of the Treasury in the McCain/Palin Administration, and once he can prove that he can serve the government of the Federal United States, rather than the hierarchy of the one true Prophet as run out of Salt Lake City, all the more power to him.

I hate to have to break this down in "Barney" terms for you ignorant liberals, but America isn't going to elect a Mormon as their Commander in Chief until they actually *find* a Mormon who does not leap into the air with Magic Undergarments when his Prophet does speak. Are we absolutely convinced that Romney doesn't have a child bride stashed in Mexico somewhere? [giggle!!!]

Barring that, Ben Stein would make a fine Sec Treas as well. Romney? Romney doesn't add up to a hill of beans in the conservative movement at present. He will be hard-pressed to achieve any prominence at all during the next eight years of McCain-Palin and the subsequent eight years of Palin-Huckabee.

TOTALLY O/T:

How come Palin has been allowed to get away with not releasing her medical records? I mean, there was a SLIGHT chance, maybe a week or two ago, that McInsane and his pal would win. We actually would have accepted this ticket w/o knowing ANYTHING about her medical records?

I guess this is a potential precedent for future elections, where the candidates can point to this one and say: see THEY didn't do it, so why should *I*?

Yes, the campaign is really slimy, but I still don't think there's one moment as singularly repulsive as "Willie Horton" was. That ad might be the lowest point in U.S. political marketing.

Of course, if the polls come true, the real noticable point is that McCain is doing all this in a losing effort.

"He's already learned quite a bit about how embarrassing it can be to have to deal with videos of previous remarks"

I guess that leaves Giuliani and Graham out of presidential races forever. And that's a very good thing. Both of those guys are such mind fuckingly stupid hacks, they give me the dry heaves whenever I just see them on T.V.

ON another happy but related note. The Ratings were so good for Obama's ubeat program last week (beating the regularly scheduled shows), that he has been offered a weekly program in that time slot

Mittens! You naughty kitten!

"...extraordinarily negative on the part of Barack Obama..."

Not just ordinarily negative, but extraordinarily negative... on the part of Obama.

I can't even imagine what Romney thinks I'm supposed to think this refers to. Saying McCain wants to gut Social Security and Medicare?? Saying Palin is unqualified?? Mentioning Dick Cheney's endorsement??

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