I read about this on Huffpo, who was quoting Politico, who obviously got the scoop during a creepy conference call bordering on group phone-sex session with Matt Drudge. I'm not linking to any of these freaks.
Apparently, McCain's official leakers have signaled to the press (called their friends on the phone) and floated the idea that Colin Powell is under consideration (being discussed) as a conceptual possibility (potentially cast in the part) as running mate for The Dumbass from Arizona.
This is hilarious, and not just because the idea of John McCain having a running partner is visually ironic, and not just because this is obviously an unimaginative game McCain's team is playing to make him seem hip and Mavericky before he falls back on George Romney's Idiot Son, announcing the team-up over a hot Double Guantanamo at Starbucks after dismounting from their official caravan of long SUV-Limos (Newest model: The Ford Ejaculate).
The first three things that come to my mind about Colin Powell are the last three things I remember him doing:
- Colin Powell lied to the United Nations. (A man who tells a falsehood out of ignorance is also a liar, but I think we all know now that he knew it was lies. Anyone paying close enough attention knew the score. The anti-war movement during that time was fact-based, not feelings/faith based, no matter what the National Corporate Media was irresponsibly pushing on a freshly terrorized public.)
- Upon realizing that everyone knew he was a sellout and there was no escaping a place in history reserved for war criminals and all-around village idiots, Colin Powell took corrective measures and admitted he spread false information, (duhhh), and then blamed everyone in the Bush administration for Colin Powell's lies except Colin Powell. ("I was just reading the fucking tele-prompter! My kid needed that job as King Fascist at the FCC!")
- Colin Powell hinted at supporting Obama, or at least lending him credibility. Making amends; grasping for some restored credibility of his own?
I have no doubt that McCain would be Mavericky enough to choose Colin Powell as his running mate (what's the old codger got left to lose, besides his racist base, and his Neo-Con base who hates Powell for telling a little truth in public? McCain doesn't even know what size shoe he wears, and he's maybe a fortnight away from painting flowers on his televisions), but since any man who runs next to McCain will undoubtedly be viewed upon by history as the lesser half of a bad comedy act (the one dropping flower petals before McCain's walker), and Colin Powell undoubtedly knows this, is there any chance Powell could be so impossibly stupid enough as to join up?
What about all that restored credibility he's been hinting at wanting back?
Down the tubes for an exclusive invite to a televised hot tub party with McCrazy?