Bruce Benidt
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Mike Keliher“After twelve years in the minor leagues, I don’t try out,” says Crash Davis to Annie Savoy in Bull Durham.
That’s pretty good advice for front-leading VP candidates as well and explains why neither Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty or Mike Huckabee made it to Senator McCain’s ribfest this weekend (yes, yes, yes, I know they both had prior commitments but c’mon, people, do you really think if they’d thought it was important to be there they wouldn’t have made the trip?)
A basic rule of politics is , “If given the choice to be Snow White or one of the seven dwarves, put on the dress.” In this context, that means biding your time and waiting for the invitation for your own one-on-one weekend and skipping the opportunity to be written up as one of a group of possible VP contenders. Six-to-five says the polite, “Thanks, but no thanks” was orchestrated with the McCain folks so as to avoid the – slight I think – possibility of the message being misunderstood.
- Austin
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: Annie Savoy, Bull Durham, Crash Davis, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Politics, Tim Pawlenty
I’m thrilled to see someone name-drop “Bull Durham.” One of the best movie ever made. “No one likes strikeouts. They’re boring — and besides that, they’re fascist.”
The only thing that makes me think this little Veep Candidate Getaway might actually mean something is the attendance of the Stormin’ Mormon Mitt Romney. To me, he seems to be the Nuke LaLoosh to McCain’s Crash Davis.
“Throw this one at the bull.”
Hey, I just came here looking for porn, and all of a sudden you guys are talking about politics and stuff. My brain hurts.
Reinan -
We put the porn links in the other posts, silly. Maybe you’re eating your ice cream too fast?
- Austin