John McCain has, at long last, taken the final plunge into self-parody.
According to The Politico, Team McCain has leaked the "money quote" from the Geezermeister General's new speech and it is, by equal measures, both a hoot and a holler.
"My friends, we've got them just where we want them."
I swear folks, I almost haven't the words.
But let's see if I can shake a couple loose anyway.
In what parallel universe, in which particular Bizarro World, does anyone who's getting their ass handed to them the way McCain is turn around and utter THAT line without the slightest hint of irony? And I don't think I'm overextending myself too far into the realm of hyperbole to suggest that it's been pretty obvious for awhile that McCain, much like somebody with a cockeyed set of rods and cones that will not allow them to perceive reds and greens, hasn't the slightest hint of an ability to perceive irony, much less wrap his speeches in it. Any lingering doubts about that tended to crumble when he saw some potential political points to be scored amongst the wingnuts and made his about-face on government-sponsored torture.
So here's Captain McCain, his hull ripped from stem to stern, his decks awash in roiling sea water, his crew scrambling into lifeboats, and he's standing there on the quarterdeck bellowing out the order "RAMMING SPEED!!"
"We've got them just where we want them?" Does he not realize that this is a punch line? That it's best preceded by the exclamation, "Hey Moe!"? That he has just generously done a week's work for every topical humor writer in the country? What's next? "I'll take ya's all on one at a time!"? Who's this guy's speech writer, Hal Roach?
And this is the guy who insists that he and only he is possessed of the clear-headed judgment necessary to serve as President of the United States. If he actually delivers this line in a speech today, it'll be the final, incontrovertible proof that John McCain doesn't have the judgment necessary to successfully feed himself, much less run a country.
"We've got them just where we want them,"... OY!!
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Annnnnnd... we have a WINNAHHHH!!!!
by Lady Libertine on Mon Oct 13, 2008 at 08:46:57 AM PDT
DING! DING! DING! He SAID it! ! !
oh boy. 10:45 a.m. CDT
I just KNEW the loopy old coot would deliver! It's the one area where he rarely fails to come through... the glorious realm of unintentional comedy.
(I'll admit, though, I was kinda hopin' for that cheese thing.)