According to a source close to the McCain Campaign John McCain will announce that Knox County Tennessee Republican Mayor Mike Ragsdale will join him on the national GOP ticket for November. The anonymous source claims McCain feels Ragsdale shares his values and will offer a true representation of the kind of leadership McCain wants to bring to the White House.
Many of McCain's top aides were unhappy with the choice do to Ragsdale's scandal filled tenure as Knox Co. Mayor. Despite their misgivings McCain was adamant and reportedly shouted down all objections at top-level campaign meeting about the vice-presidential choice held at his newest mansion in Arizona. In fact McCain was so upset he climbed the oil rig in the back yard and refused to come down, shouting at the worried campaign aides gathered below, "You kids get off my lawn!" Ragsdale was unavailable for comment, but a spokesman for the Mayor released the following statement on the Mayor's recent travel schedule:
"Mayor Ragsdale will be campaigning in Dayton, Ohio with Senator McCain on Friday, but it is most definatly not to avoid prosecution in Knoxville."
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The anonymous source claims
That is outstanding. And hilarious.
~Russ
Well played...
and funny.
Yes, very good and prescient
Yes, very good and prescient too. I hadn't seen this when I made the Ragsdale comment on the other thread. OTOH, I like Brian's tag better that she is McSame's Harriet Miers. Except I hope this one stays on the ticket even after wrongdoing is found in October for her Alaska shananigans.
Really, the more I learn
Really, the more I learn about Palin, the more I think he may have actually been better off picking Ragsdale- or some random McCainiac woman at a rally. It seems smart at first, Governor, Conservative, Young, Woman - she checks off all the boxes where McCain is weak on the surface. Then when you see that she is the subject of ethics violations investigations, ran the town she was Mayor of into the ground with debt, and she is a looney Paleo-Con -then you realise McCain has made a big-time mistake.
~ Bob Aubin
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