Mccain is the NFlip Flopper, and “McCainisms” will soon be the New “Bushisms”

By Lauren Silverman

Type in the words “flip-flop” and “McCain” into google and you’ll probably forget that Kerry was the original “flip-flopper”. Headlines say McCain has flip-flopped on gay marriage, on his “100 years in Iraq” comment, on immigration, on ethanol, and now on offshore drilling. Krugman of the New York Times explains how McCain used to be fairly independent on energy policy, voting in the past against the special-interest-driven 2005 energy bill, but is now nothing more than a big flip-flopper. Last Monday, McCain made the call for more offshore drilling – illiciting a slew of criticism – criticism he rightly deserves.

Like the media, I stopped making fun of Bush a long time ago. Yes, I still think he’s an ignorant human being, but I, like others, am also aware that the Republican who wants to take his place, Senator McCain, is a flip-flopper, ridicuoulsy superstitious, and on the verge of needing a respirator – which provides me and political pundits plenty of fresh joke material. I mean, how hard is to make fun of a guy who at all times keeps on him a lucky compass, a lucky feather, a lucky penny and even assigns his assistant to carry his lucky pen – a Zebra Jimnie Gel Rollerball.

I have a feeling magazines such as Slate will replace their “Bushism of the day” section with “McCainisms” before we know it. Some of my favorite quotes from the flip-flopper are:

“I’m older than dirt, I’ve got more scars than Frankenstein, but I’ve learned a few things along the way.”

and,

“You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.”

For more entertaining McCainisms, check out http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/johnmccain/a/mccainisms.htm.