Posted on 11/14/2008 1:20:38 PM PST by winoneforthegipper
“There simply wasn’t the donor base to support it,” McCarthy said. And there are some rather interesting reasons why not. One, the federal campaign finance law that John McCain helped write has made it increasingly difficult to fund independent campaigns legally. Thus, McCain’s own law was used against him.
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Ah yes! McCain Feingold. Hung on his own petard.
(in the voice of WC Fields. Whats a petard?)
Baloney. The original swift boaters operated under the same laws.
But its fun noting that McCain’s campaign finance law has made it impossible to know where Obama’s funding came from.
He couldn’t be Swift Boated because he never served. He thought about serving once, as he told Stephanopolus. I guess that means the Republicans just thought about Swift Boating him, too.
McCain’s own law was used against him.
He couldn’t be Swift Boated by the Titanic............
McCain’s own law was used against him.
McCain’s own law was used against him.
Some days, I believe it's my dog.
(in the voice of WC Fields. Whats a petard?)
A flagon full of whiskey ....????
McQueeg was hoist by his own petard.....
Total BS. McCain's candidacy registered above life support only when he attacked Hussein. He simply did not have the will to fight. He lead the charge with a white flag.
A flagon full of whiskey.
Ah, yessssssss.
Keep moving to the left Republicans - its such a good strategy.
The great irony of the 2008 election. MCCAIN/Feingold.
‘supposed to add “my little chickadee” ....
It would be funny if only he wasn’t dragging us down with him.
Hey, Johnny! How did all that bipartisanship work out for ya?
I’d rather be in Philadelphia(with the world champions Phillies)
Hussein had an incredible amount of money to use.
Only as his Presidency unfolds will we find out where it came from. (aka follow the money)
I don’t understand that “Swift Boating,” whatever it means in principle, necessarily must have anything to do wiht having “served,” whatever that means. It happened the John Kerry’s military record was the object of the original lie-fighting Swift Boaters, but the practice of setting straight a record of performance that has been grossly misrepresented can apply as well under the aegis of Swift Boating to the misrepresented, but largely obscured, life of Obama.
Kerry always wanted to be the center of attention and went out of his way to leave a trail behind him that would trip him up later.
Barack Obama, by contrast, was more of an "inhibitionist" (if that's a word).
He didn't leave much of a trail, stayed in the background, and let a mystique build around him.
I concur. Although, seeing how things are turning out, maybe he did not have the guts to be a leader at this time. He is and always was a liberal and ran an anemic campaign.
A small explosive device. That’s why the expression is, “Hoisted on his own petard.”
Hoisted, not hung.
Paraphrased per Wikipedia:
The word remains in modern usage in the phrase to be hoisted by one's own petard (or to hoist with one's own petard), which means "to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else" or "to fall into one's own trap", literally implying that one could be lifted up (hoisted, or blown upward) by one's own bomb. Shakespeare used the now proverbial phrase in Hamlet.
In medieval and Renaissance siege warfare, a common tactic was to dig a shallow trench close to the enemy gate, and then erect a small hoisting engine that would lift the lit petard out of the trench, swing it up, out, and over to the gate, where it would detonate and hopefully breach the gate. It was not impossible, however, that this procedure would go awry, and the engineer lighting the bomb could be snagged in the ropes and lifted out with the petard and consequently blown up. Alternately, and perhaps a more likely scenario, if the petard were to detonate prematurely due to a faulty or short slow match, the engineer would be lifted or "hoist[ed]" by the explosion.
Thus to be "hoist with his own petar" is to be caught up and destroyed by his own plot. Hamlet's actual meaning is "cause the bomb maker to be blown up with his own bomb", metaphorically turning the tables on Claudius, whose messengers are killed instead of Hamlet. Also note here, Shakespeare's probable off-color pun "hoisted with his own petar", i.e., fart, as reason for the spelling "petar" rather than "petard".
So, are you saying that O had no petard upon which he could be hoisted?
I think you're right. I think the sources of his money is one of those realities that will see the light of day sooner or later. Of course by that time, we may all be too busy trying to survive that we don't even notice it, except to give a quick ironic grunt as we hitch up our belts another notch and prepare ourselves for another 20 miles of trudging through the dark.
Ah yessss, my conservativecharleyguy. Thanks for the further info.
His would-be supporters simply complied with his stated wishes.
“So my FRIENDSH, I will shtill reach acrossh the aisle, to work with ash many other FRIENDSH ash I can, and I really mean it, FRIENDSH.”
Au contraire! We heard them all:
McCain is the lesser evil
He's better than b Hussein o
We cannot allow b Hussein o in the WH
He's not Bush!
He's not b Hussein o
If we don't vote for him, it's a vote for b Hussein o
b Hussein o is an islamofascist communist (or a variation on those terms)
McCain has now (finally) said, in his best campaign voice (choking back laughter) that he will seal the border, drill for oil, put the country first, respect conservatives and he's not Bush! So now it's okay to vote for him
Governor Sarah Palin
Ha! and all this time I though a petard was a pointy stick.
I don’t think we’ll ever find out where BO’s money came from—just like we never found out where Bubba’s came from.
GOP candidates have for too long hiding behind the skirts of bloggers, 501C-3’s and talk-show hosts to do their grunt work for them, while they remain “bipartisan” and “among the fray”. In a full-on Dem Thugocracy they are liable to have access to none of the above. Time to roll up your sleeves and learn to do the dirty work yourselves, guys.
Any last requests?
“Yes, I’d like to visit Paris...Philadelphia will do.”
About as well as that "Ditch Mitch" thing worked in Indiana. I'm still laughing about that and I have no interest in it one way or the other.
Ah yes, sorry, I'd forgotten about all those "conservative" policy positions. ;)
“Among the fray”?? I don’t think so.
McCain’t petard boomeranged on him and threw him under the bus!
Where is the tape LA Times?
Bull$#it. Everyone heard all the reasons why NOT to vote for BHO.
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Not so, you and I may know all the reasons but millions who faithfully depend on the “MSM” have little or no idea what they voted for. If the media had covered the facts McCain would have won in a landslide.
I do agree though that we could have used more reasons to vote for McCain. It is pathetic when our whole campaign is based on,”I’m not as bad as the other guy”.
You’re a winner. The Swift Boat campaign was done after the signing of McCain-Feingold.
I object to the misappropriation of the term “Swift boating” because it was a perfectly legitimate exposure of hypocrisy by John Kerry.
While the article makes several correct points, the most significant reason McCain didn’t draw the big money Bush did is because he was not favored by the big (conservative) GOP donors. Money talks and aisle-reachers walk.
Most of the illustrations of Petards show it to be a bronze
cup shaped device filled with black powder, fastened to a board that is then nailed directly to a door or propped against it. the fuses of the time were notoriously unreliable and the breachers were often caught in their
own explosion.
Actually, the reason he was not swiftboated was because he had a team of lawyers threatening radio and tv stations if they played commercials dealing with gun control, ayers or wright. If that didnt work then the race card came flying out. That usually silenced all.
Well Ayers has now done it himself...after the election of course.
The MSM truly died this election. They didn't do *any* investigative reporting on The One, AFAIK. They were quite interested in who Trig's mother is though, but not interested enough to check Sarah's medical records, or ask the doctor who delivered him.
The reason, along with McM's age, I finally relented and filled in the bubble next to McCain-Palin.
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