Memory failures. Mental errors. Verbal gaffes. Angry outbursts. McCain 2008!

[IDemo]

You're not mistaken if Gramps increasingly seems to be becoming a mix of Reaganesque confusion and Bushian idiocy (and confusion). Just the kind of guy repubs want to have a beer with, and vote for, in other words. I found a few references to some McCainisms and have listed them below. Feel free to add any I've left out.

And get off my @*^# lawn!!

"And I believe that the success will be fairly easy" and "There's no doubt in my mind that... we will be welcomed as liberators." (John McCain 3/24/03)

"I think we could go in with much smaller numbers than we had to do in the past... I don't believe it's going to be nearly the size and scope that it was in 1991." (John McCain 9/15/02)

"There's not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shias. So I think they can probably get along." (John McCain 4/23/03)

I think the victory will be rapid, within about three weeks. (John McCain, MSNBC, 1/28/03)

"Well, then why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier?" (responding to assertion by Fox News' Neil Cavuto that "many argue the conflict isn't over," (John McCain, 06/11/03)

Responding to a question about a survey that shows increased exports to Iran, mainly from cigarettes, McCain said, "Maybe that's a way of killing them."

Speaking at Murrells Inlet VFW Hall in South Carolina, McCain was asked when he thought the US Military might "send an air mail message to Tehran."

"McCain began his answer by changing the words to a popular Beach Boys song," the Georgetown Times reports.

"'Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,' he sang to the tune of Barbara Ann,"

Jan 23, 2008 ... John McCain: “I still believe our fundamental underpinnings of our economy are strong.”

Recent gaffes include:
- Claiming Czechoslovakia is a country on four occasions
- Confusing Shiites and Sunnis several times in one speech
- Claiming Iraq and Pakistan share a border
- Confusing the timeline regarding the surge and the Anbar awakening

Asked how many houses he owned, John McCain replied, "I think — I'll have my staff get to you."

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own.

"I think — I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. "It's condominiums where — I'll have them get to you."

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Here, from a few days ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6644909

[IDemo]

2. It's chilling that millions aren't making the connection between these goofs

and how they paint the picture of a man incapable of leading our nation, particularly with all we face because of the current fool.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Not all of it is due to dementia.

A lot of it is just plain characterological--like the flip-flops, which I pretended are instances of dementia (leaving the reader with the choice--is it brain damage, or is it opportunism?).

[AndyTiedye]

3. McAngry

[Swede]

5. Grampa,did you sit on the apple pie? I hope so

[SoCalDem]

6. C'mon..cut the guy some slack, he IS learning about computers

and he loves his new screensaver...Did it all by himself, too...