Wonkette: Bob Barr on target to ruin John McCain’s life
Wonkette has her ever-unique take on the presidential race:
Bob Barr looks like Reverend Jeremiah Wright and will probably cost John McCain the election, and for these two reasons alone Barack Obama makes love to Bob Barr’s voodoo doll in his hyperbaric Hope chamber every night. You see, 6% of Zogby poll respondents said they would vote for the Libertarian candidate for president, and this is the exact size of the margin Obama leads by. Score one for Liberty!
She’s not finished, though:
As time goes on, conservatives will probably figure out they are better off voting for Old Loser McCain than Hopeless Cause Barr, but history tells us that the Libertarian only needs the votes of a couple hundred old ladies in Palm Beach County in order to hand over the election to … Nader.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Funny, but still, you have to be a slow kid to think every single one of Barr’s votes is skin off McCain’s ass.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:21 am
I’ll believe this when we start hearing Obama and his handlers consistently referring to “his three way race with McCain and Barr.” Good strategy for the Dems would be to talk up Barr 24/7.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:52 am
And people take Whackette seriously WHY?
Sorry, they’re in there with DailyKos, Lone Star Press, and Red State in terms of serious journalism. In the trash heap, that is.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:58 am
And the decline and fall Wonkette continues….
The woman who started it doesn’t even work there anymore.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Unfortunately, the liberal media might be smart enough to realize that talking up the LP would be devastating for them in the long run.
They do not want a serious opponent.
Right now, with the Republicans stuck on stupid for the past twenty years (moral majority crap + the villanization of males who are supposed to all be Scott Peterson), the Democrats have been able to keep white male voters with both hands tied behind their backs.
This despite the fact that there should be NO reason for a male voter to want to vote Democrat.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:35 am
We can only hope its true about ruining McCain
July 8th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
If the article was supposed to be satire, it was the worst satire I have ever read. It wasn’t even remotely funny.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
GoNolzOhio,
Wonkette is never funny. They just think they are.
The Onion, now THAT’s funny! And a touch of things people relate to, which is why it’s funny.
That touch of things people can relate to is what makes all great humor work. The lack of it is what make s bad humor bad.
Wonkette’s chief audience these days is crickets…
July 8th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Michael,
In my post, I was going to mention The Onion as the gold standard for satire these days, so I obviously agree with you 100%. I never even heard of Wonkette until I read this article, and now I wish I had those 2 or 3 minutes of my life back. So much bad satire out there. What an easy art form to attempt, but incredibly hard to do well. IMHO.
July 8th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
GolNolzOhio,
I could not agree more. Even Lucy said, “Comedy is hard” and she was right.
I came across a lot of Wonkettes on the Paul campaign and I learned rather quickly which ones were a waster of time. I just listed the worst offenders my first post on this thread.
That’s why I appreciate a good joke, humorous story, parody, or satire. I can do it sometimes, see my ode to Dr. Seuss’ NOTA somewhere around here, but it isn’t always that good, either.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Ron Paul’s dead site is STILL getting more traffic than Barf’s.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/bobbarr2008.com+ronpaul2008.com+johnmccain.com/?metric=uv
McWar is blowing Barf out of the water.