Thursday, August 7, 2008

Arrogant vs. vulgar


There are lots of words we could use to describe John McCain: old, dangerous, ignorant, hot-tempered, or as Paris Hilton said "wrinkly white haired guy." But, sadly, none of them seem to have the traction to damage his candidacy.

So I've been trying to think of a word to describe John McCain, a word that might stick, a word that the mainstream and cable media would never use because they have too much respect for him, but a word that might catch on in the blogosphere, a word that could match the word "arrogant" that his campaign is using to characterize Barack Obama.

John McCain's appearance at the Sturgis biker gathering, where he offered up his wife as a contestant in the Miss Buffalo Chip contest, gave me the word.

John McCain is "vulgar."

And this isn't the only instance of his vulgarity. Check out my article on Outraged Citizen.