Top 10 REAL Reasons McCain Wants to Skip the Debate

Filed in National by on September 26, 2008

This thread suggested by a loyal reader (not sure yet if he wants the credit) and starts the reasons:

10.  I have to wax all 13 cars that night.

9.   I found a set of house keys, and I have to try them out in each of my 8 to 12 houses.

8.   9/11

7.   Taller candidate usually wins and these podiums don’t let me hide my orange crate

6.   Debate Commission disallowed use of the phrase “My Friends”

5.   Lobbyists don’t work past 6 on Fridays, so he has no staff available.

You know you have more — count them down in the comments!

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  1. Frieda Berryhill says:

    Finally a reason to get out of it “My country needs me”……

  2. anon says:

    Holding out for lime green background.

  3. nemski says:

    Nick at Nite is running a Golden Girls marathon on Friday night.

    I was a POW

    Since my days at Annapolis, I have never tested well.

    Rick Davis told me not to and he scares me. My friends, have you ever noticed he looks like Jeffrey Dahmer?

  4. Kilroy says:

    #1 Di-wee dinky-dau number ten !

  5. Joanne Christian says:

    It’s poker night with the Keating Five.

  6. delawaredem says:

    Ouch! Joanne! That was a good one.

  7. Joanne Christian says:

    Thank you–can we make that #1?

  8. pandora says:

    I vote for Joanne’s being #1. Too clever.

  9. jason330 says:

    Debate sponor refuses to make the lecturn wide enough to accomodate J. Sarah McPalin.

  10. Unstable Isotope says:

    I vote Joanne #1!

  11. jason330 says:

    McCain 2000 destroyed McCain 2008 in pre-debate practice sessions.

  12. edisonkitty says:

    It’s the Mavericky thing to do.

    Debates are overly regulated.

  13. True Debates says:

    The 1992 Presidential Debates with Ross Perot were not dull. His warnings have now come true. Replace John McCain with Ron Paul. Add Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney. Barack Obama must earn his victory, not win by default.

  14. Frieda Berryhill says:

    True D
    “Ross Perot was not dull. ” by now we have all heard the whooooshing soud he talked about with jobs travelinfg overseas

  15. G Rex says:

    Pick one:

    “I tried to have this debate in 2005, but Chris Dodd, Chuck Shumer and Barney Frank blocked it.”

    “I can’t seem to get my briefing notes out of my e-mail.”

  16. El Somnambulo says:

    ‘Already scheduled to appear on Letterman’.

  17. Von Cracker says:

    High Definition Television & my record.