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Home Front: Politix
AP sez McCain's Steroids Thingy Makes Him Prez Contender in '08 (heh)
2004-12-13
Sen. John McCain, the publicity-seeking straight-talking Republican who often challenges the GOP establishment, has taken on a headline-grabbing issue - steroids in baseball - and generated talk of a presidential bid in 2008.
Ohfergawdsake. GW hasn't even been inaugurated for this term yet.
Amid revelations about baseball's biggest names, McCain has threatened to push legislation early next year if Major League Baseball and the players do not clean up their act. McCain long has advocated harsher penalties for athletes caught using performance-enhancing drugs. The three-term senator from Arizona has earned a reputation as a go-to lawmaker, tackling campaign finance, the war on Iraq, federal spending and climate change.
Helluva job you do on that campaign finance reform, John.
It's little wonder that his foray into the baseball scandal has revived Republican speculation about McCain and the 2008 presidential race.
I didn't realize it was so easy, lol!
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#17  I dunno about the rest of youse, but I personally couldn't give a rat's ass about sports and steroids. The only game I like is hockey, and even then, it's the game itself that does it for me (I can watch any team, any league) and not any particular team(s) or player(s). If overpaid athletes want to sully their game, their team, and their reputations, go right ahead.

All that aside, I don't see why Sen. McCain feels a need to get involved. It's the various sports leagues' problem, so leave them alone to either either solve it on their own or fall by the wayside in the process.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-12-13 6:26:05 PM  

#16  ring-pounder?
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-12-13 4:47:43 PM  

#15  "Doctor. You have testified that the following symptoms exist in Sen. John McCain's Lieutenant-Commander Queeg's behavior. Rigidity of personality, feelings of persecution, unreasonable suspicion, a mania for perfection, and a neurotic certainty that he is always in the right. Doctor isn't there one psychiatric term for this illness?"
Posted by: Steve   2004-12-13 4:42:07 PM  

#14  DB - that was cold. Funny, but cold.... :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2004-12-13 4:37:02 PM  

#13  Now, will Johnny RINO take off his shoe and bang it on the counter? We need actions like these, not simply Nikita gestures. Give us a shoe banging Johnny.
Posted by: Capt America   2004-12-13 4:34:29 PM  

#12  Wonder what his wife thinks about people abusing drugs.
Ah, never mind.......
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2004-12-13 4:21:17 PM  

#11  I'd trust Nikita before I'd trust McCain.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-12-13 3:52:59 PM  

#10  "I will bury you!"

"Damn it, where's my other shoe?"

"Is the camera getting all this?"

LIVESHOT!
Posted by: Nikita McCain   2004-12-13 1:35:37 PM  

#9  Sorry, John. Worrying about whether Barry Bonds head explodes before he's 50 is way down on my list.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-12-13 1:21:36 PM  

#8  Khrushchev looks a bit more chipper. But he too was a maverick. The MSM would love him today
Posted by: lex   2004-12-13 10:14:30 AM  

#7  Somewhere along the line, John seems to have missed out on taking any classes about the US government or Constitution. He's utterly confused and annoyed by those who don't want to do things his way, because he *says* so. "You don't seem to understand. I want everybody to do *this*. Why are you arguing with me? Do what I say!"
Posted by: Anonymoose   2004-12-13 10:11:16 AM  

#6  I can't believe this will make a difference in his chances in 2008. I mean, here he is screwing up a sport that's working perfectly well, and we still don't have hockey!
Posted by: Asedwich   2004-12-13 8:52:17 AM  

#5  Really?


Posted by: Sobiesky   2004-12-13 6:28:31 AM  

#4  Come to think of it, Johnny McC really is starting to look more and more like Nikita Khrushchev (with better teeth)
Posted by: lex   2004-12-13 1:02:05 AM  

#3  Maybe he's really running for Baseball Commissioner.

Ed: Nahhhh, I think he's going for UN Ambassador slot recently vacated by John Danforth. Think of it... can you just imagine the look on Kofi Klepto's face the first time McCain takes the podium at the General Assembly and promptly goes into a spontaneous 'roid rage? :-D
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2004-12-13 12:56:11 AM  

#2  MSM strategy: first, deny reality (Bush didn't win!). When above fails, then deny significance of reality (Bush doesn't have a mandate!). When above fails, change the subject (McCain in '08!!)
Posted by: lex   2004-12-13 12:55:54 AM  

#1  Maybe he's really running for Baseball Commissioner.
Posted by: ed   2004-12-13 12:31:01 AM  

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