Breitbart on McCain: "He'll sit there and be adequate"

[Youphemism]

(During an MSNBC commercial) the Fox News Cheerleaders were interviewing Mr. Breitbart, hard-line right-winger from Breitbart.com news.

After talking about how McCain should be more aggressive in sliming Obama -- after another Fox airing of Michelle's "first time I'm proud of America" snippet, they went on to the debate issue.

Brian Kilmeade -- a man at a cranial disadvantage, no matter who's sitting next to him -- was doing the rah-rah McCain thing:

"I'm just really looking forward to these town hall meetings, if Obama agrees to them, because that's where McCain will really flourish!"

Breitbart's response:

"I wouldn't say 'flourish.' He'll sit there and be adequate."

Kilmeade was unable to form a response.

One of those rare times I enjoyed a Fox News segment.

[babylonsister]

1. Lucky for us, 'adequate' won't be enough this year. nt

[lisa58]

2. lol!!

[Happyhippychick]

3. When one lowers expectations to the sewer level, anything looks like it is "flourishing".

[Youphemism]

5. Don't underestimate how much republicans...

...resent McCain.

It's easy to forget, while we're being disturbed by the Hillary voters threatening to defect, just how much republicans mistrust and dislike John McCain. They deeply resent the fact that they're left with him as a choice. Some of them truly believe it might be better to let Obama get elected and "fail," so they can vote for a "real" republican in 2012, much like the wishful delusions of the hardcore Hillary supporters.

When I talk to my hard-line republican friends -- yes, I have them -- I don't go overboard trying to convince them of Obama's merits. I know they won't rally behind him. Instead, I point out how sad it is that they don't have a chance to vote for a real republican instead of that "backstabbing, immigration supporting, eco-nut McCain." I usually add comments like "How sad is it that a *real* republican like Bob Barr has to run from outside the party just to promote truly republican ideals?"

I hope that while McCain is trying to pick off those angry Hillary supporters, some democratic strategist are out there working on reminding republicans why they hate McCain.

[Mooney]

4. I'm still kind of shocked at how much the RW hates McCain

and are completely open in expressing their contempt for him. I'm certainly no fan, but he doesn't really seem any different to me than any other Republican, and I can't see why they hate him as much as they do. But Jesus H. Christ, they hate his guts.

I think they hate him more than we do, if that's possible.

[Youphemism]

6. LOL! You're totally right -- see previous post. /nt

[harun]

7. I think you are right. They hate him more than we do because we

really aren't the hating type. Not like they do. These people NEED to hate. They are the haters. They really hate McCain. I think we will get way more Republicans voting for Obama than anyone is currently projecting.

[wileedog]

9. I think most will stay home

The feeling among some hard core Conservatives I know is that they are not going to signal willing acceptance of a God-Awful candidate by voting for him no matter what. They figure Obama will be a disaster, and the Republicans can use that to elect a real Conservative in 2012.

That's their thinking anyway - I hope they follow through on that mistake...

[Mooney]

11. May their whole sorry "movement" march off a cliff en masse in November.

I agree with you, I think a lot of them will probably stay home. I hope that they remain so ideologically pure that they never have anyone to vote for. At this point, they have become so extremist, dogmatic and narrow-minded that Nixon or Reagan would be too "liberal" for them. After all, Nixon started the Environmental Protection Agency, that tree hugging leftist, and Reagan raised taxes and cut-and-ran from Lebanon.

[Mooney]

10. I beg to differ. I am absolutely the hating type.

It's what they're hating him for that I find confusing.

I saw a segment on the news a few weeks ago, where McCain had given a speech about global warming (excuse me, "climate change"), and all the RW pundits were absolutely enraged that he would even discuss such a thing, much less claim that it was a valid concern. I don't remember any exact quotes, but it was the typical hysteria-ridden GOP boilerplate about how McCain is a "liberal" and he's betrayed the memory of Ronald Reagan and so forth. If memory serves, I think they had a brief clip of Rush Limbaugh with his face buried in his hands, so crestfallen was he that he could not even find the words to adequately summarize his grief. I swear to god I'm not making this up.

In general, I don't really understand why the issues that enrage Republicans enrage them like they do. Obviously as a Democrat I get worked up about the usual predictable things that Democrats get worked up about, but I really can't think of an issue where a Democratic politician would champion it and that would cause me to go ballistic on them. I'm totally opposed to the war and always was, but I voted for John Kerry in 2004 despite the fact that he voted for the IWR, and had Hillary Clinton become the nominee I would have voted for her too despite that. Almost all of the Democrats that I know would have done the same.

[harun]

13. Jeeesh, for freepers if you don't do something to actively HURT the environment

you are a leftist appeaser tree hugger. It makes no sense to me this stance they take. They get nothing out of it. It isn't like they are going to reap the benefits themselves of some oil company. If they are doing because of greed they could just invest in some other less destructive industry and get there first. Investing in it before the other people get there. Then champion the better alternative. I just think they have been complaining so long about "the liberals" that they don't even have a platform anymore. They just complain, smear and lie.

[wileedog]

14. Don't forget, McCain has switch almost all of his positions in the last year

In the past 7 years he has pushed Open Border Amnesty and passed McCain-Feingold which they consider a direct attack on free speech. He worked directly with Dems to fillibuster conservative judges with the Gang of 14. He outright threatened to leave the party once and was clearly open to becoming Kerry's running mate in 2004. He voted against Bush tax cuts originally (the one's he is pushing now), and lately has been outright critical of the Fearless Leader.

He has clearly reveled in being the outsider for years, until now when it no longer expedient for him.

McCain is the equivalent of us nominating a Lieberman/Zell Miller ticket, but maybe worse because he is actually trying to pander his way back into their good graces, which is just that much more annoying and fake.

[TomClash]

8. I hope someone is paying you to watch Fox nt

[cbc5g]

12. Did they use the edited tape with "really" taken out?

The RW edited it to take "really" out from "first time I'm REALLY proud of America" meaning she was proud before but now "really" proud.

[Youphemism]

15. Sorry, I *really* don't recall. /nt

[Spooky_D]

16. "Adequate" is giving McSame too much credit... N/T