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Mitt Romney Uncomfortably Fidgets During John McCain’s Joke-laden Endorsement

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An apparently hyper-caffeinated John McCain gave a lovably corny, joke-laden endorsement of Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, much to chagrin of the Republican hopeful. “We forgot to congratulate him on his landslide victory last night,” McCain snarked as Romney stood uncomfortably.

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“He can run, but he can’t hide, now, my friends,” McCain riffed, then added:

“Our message, our message to President Barack Obama, you can run, but you can’t hide from your record of making this country bankrupt from destroying our national security, and to making this nation one that we have to restore with Mitt Romney as President of the United States of America. All the media reports — all of the media reports says that the president is going to attack Congress, and you know, maybe that is not a bad idea, because our approval rating is 9%. You get down that low, you are down to paid staffers and blood relatives!”

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  • The Real Royal Emperor

    The Republican Establishment is clearly lining up to slap down the Tea Party and the rightist elements. Neo-Connery rises again!

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    With friends like that….

  • Anonymous

    “Here’s one you’ll like, Mitt. Why is Calista Gingrich so ugly?  Because Newt is old enough to be her father!”

    (rimshot)

    “The good thing about Alzhiemers, Mitt, is that I can forget I endorsed you!”

    (rimshot)

    “Take my c*nt … I mean, my wife, please!”

    (rimshot)

    “I got a million of ‘em. Wocka, wocka.”

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    Obama getting re-election advice from one-termer Jimmy Carter and Romney getting endorsed by a failed presidential candidate. i guess none of the past winners are excited about these two candidates.

  • D L

    Romney to McCain: “STFU, already!”

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know who is more uncomfortable and pathetic…Romney, with not a sincere bone in his body..or McCain, with the same old recycled jokes from 2008…Really the thing about staffers and blood relatives….How old is that?  Not an ounce of enthusiasm or excitement in either one of them….If this is the best they got, it’s 4 more years for President Obama….

  • http://twitter.com/Lompemann Lompe Landslaget

    Awkward 

  • Jane

    I almost feel sorry for McCain.   What a sad, sad, man.     Could he be any more irrelevant?  

  • Anonymous

    What about Romney is insincere?  Has he pretended to have a position that he in fact doesn’t? Or are you just projecting your own anxieties?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Yes. Bristol Palin could be his daughter.

  • 12voltman1

    When does Willard not fidget?

  • 12voltman1

    Romney is a horrible “actor”.

  • Anonymous

    Irony…having the guy who got whupped by Obama give a rallying cry…to beat Obama!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    When he’s firing workers.

  • Anonymous

    Romney is doomed.. The President will easily be reelected.

  • Anonymous

    Mr. romneycare, lefty christie and AMNESTY-JOHN mccain – these RINO TRAITORS stick together (while they stick with their version of d-cRAT socialist ideology).

  • Anonymous

    ITS THE KISS OF DEATH… from mister ……
    Ok, not Goldfinger.. but its still the kiss of death. I’m sorry but McCain gave the world Sara Palin. I’m not sure about you but the last thing I would want would be his political endorsement. Good luck MITtens. 

  • 12voltman1

    Willard and McCain are a good pair. Mittens is now pro-life and he’s clinging to life

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    This is satire, RIGHT?

  • Anonymous

    So I’m confused, how exactly has the current president destroyed national security?

    If anything that might actually be a strength, Bin Laden and al-Awlaki are two names that come to mind

    The Presidents weakness is the economy, thats what you argue, arguing against his foreign policy or national security is like throwing a fastball down the middle of the plate to albert pujols and actually being surprised he hit it out of the park

  • 12voltman1

    Getting endorsed by a loser is always a big get.

  • D L

    I just thought of something…

    The Republican base is so inept and insipid, because they say they don’t like Romney for being too moderate for them, yet he’s their front-runner.

    The reason that’s the case is because the GOP base wants to beat Obama more than anything, and they foolishly believe that Romney’s the most electable.

    So..if they’re willing to take a moderate guy like Romney, why do they not bother at all with Jon Huntsman? He’s 50-times more conservative than Romney is, and he can do whatever they think Romney can do in beating Obama.

    If the idiots who make up the GOP base think Romney can pull in independents and build a large coalition, despite being a RINO, why not go with Huntsman, already?

    These people make no sense…!

  • Anonymous

    I seriously hope so.

  • Anonymous

    Is Dole on board? Lets roll out all the big hitters

  • Anonymous

    Wow, that was really, how I put it, hummmm not funny. If you are going to attempt to be a comic your material should at least pass the 3rd grade test.

  • Anonymous

    Please give me the position this guy won’t change for politicial reasons?  The list of positons he has changed is pretty long, so exactly what does he have left?

  • Anonymous

    He could be Rick Perry’s social studies teacher.

  • http://www.facebook.com/codemon Cody Hill

    The reason Sen. Jon Kyl from Arizona is not seeking another term is to get away from McCain and his obvious lameness 0_o

  • http://twitter.com/mattparkerfl Matt Parker

    Considering John McCain hates Mitt Romney’s guts and will never get over the primary fight of 2008 (just like he will never forgive Obama for beating him thanks to McCain’s pathetically bad campaign), it is rather odd that McCain would endorse Mitt and that the Romney camp would trot it out in such a public manner. McCain is hardly a fire-and-brimstone conservative, and will likely hurt Romney among the Tea Party crowds. They despise McCain for his loss to Obama and his less-than-stellar right-wing credentials. This hurts Romney more than it helps.  www.sunstateactivist.org

  • Anonymous

    Don’t get sucked into the republican fact free world. The new republican method is to just say whatever pops into your head, no matter how big a lie or how wrong. It has become perfectly clear that most conservative voters have no interest in what is true and what is a lie; they just point their hate at Obama and America and nod their head in agreement. Guys like Romney and the talking heads on Fox know this and don’t even pretend to speak the truth with regards to the country.   I mean take a look at the people who are and who have run for president on the GOP ticket? I wouldn’t hire anyone of these clowns to manage the sock shelf at the local K Mart, never mind the leader of the free world, but here we are.

  • OSTL

    Remember when John Edwards was the frontrunner? I sure do.

  • OSTL

    you’ve clearly never ran or owned a business

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Two (2) of them, Jeff Merrill. The only person I ever fired was for cause.

  • Anonymous

    It’s official, McCain is completely senile.

  • Anonymous

    It’s official, McCain is completely senile.

  • Anonymous

    That’s as funny as someone conservative gets. What about Romney is insincere?  That’s comedy gold I tell you, comedy gold.

  • Anonymous

    that’s how he got elected governor of Massachusetts, he pretended to have many positions that he in fact didn’t!! He is a complete phoney, the same thing will happen if he gets elected (eek) president, his approval ratings will fall to 20.  Well, maybe only  35, it can’t go lower than the percentage of stupid voters.

  • Anonymous

    Once his campaign finally ends, look for Romney to release his new book,  Political Kama Sutra, subtitled I got more positions than that other Kama Sutra book but not nearly as exciting.

  • Anonymous

    That is a video of two sad men, one will do anything to get elected and the other can’t do anything to get elected.

  • Anonymous

    If all businesses were “run” the way Romney and Bain did, there wouldn’t be any jobs left in USA.

  • Anonymous

    During sex.(uh, so I’m told)

  • OSTL

    well, that makes you a flaming hypocrite. but, we already knew that. a flaming bigot and a flaming hypocrite. Nice qualities, Mark!

  • Anonymous

    Oddly enough Jeff Merrill was the name of the guy caught on camera peeing in his bosses coffee pot……hey, wait a minute.

  • Anonymous

    From your keyboard to God’s in box.

  • 12voltman1

    Then, maybe Its the magic unpants that makes him fidget?

  • Anonymous

    Not at all a “new method” for republicans, it’s been the norm for a century or more.

  • Anonymous

    Remember that time at band camp, that girl stuck a clarinet in her…..,just as relevant.

  • Anonymous

    Dole is a board, four hours and counting with that little blue pill he uses.

  • 12voltman1

    Sometmes stupid is funny,

  • 12voltman1

    Ta Dump Dump …. Cymbal!

  • Anonymous

    I think McCain is use to getting beat by now and has a memory shorter than he is politically.  During Bush’s two terms he had no stronger supporter than McCain who in 2000 was the victim of slander by Bush’s man Karl Rove.  Rove said McCain was a snitch for his V.C. captors during the South Carolina primary that year.

  • 12voltman1

    Ya think Mittens has a Mistress does ya now?
     Tex…er… Jeff….. whatever.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    Romney should have took the endorsement and then quickly escorted the idiot McCain off the stage.  Not sure who has less brains McCain senior or his clueless daughter.

  • Anonymous

    I hear there’s a nursing home for senile elders with John Mccains new room waiting for him…

  • Anonymous

    While most of what you say is correct he will still beat Obama easily. Well that isn’t entirely true. He won’t beat Obama at all. Obama will beat Obama. The people will not stand for another 4 year of him even if they have to settle for Romney. You really should have run someone against Obama. I might even have considered Clinton over Romney.

  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t this endorsement just remind Republicans of McCain’s own disastrous campaign in 2008? I fail to see how this endorsement benefits Mittens. It reinforces the meme that he’s a RINO.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    If McCain’s endorsement of Romney doesn’t prove to the Republicans that Romney isn’t to be trusted than nothing will.

  • Anonymous

    Reminds me of how uncomfortable McCain’t was when G.W. endorsed him.  Priceless.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Swann/100003281352784 Charles Swann

    I can’t believe McCain lost. 
    Seriously, I know the Democrats are pretty sad sometimes, but the Republicans are really in a slump now.  The sadass loser passing the torch to the next sadass loser. 

  • Anonymous

    Romney sure is weird.

  • Bill T.

    The strong smell of Ben Gay caused Mitt to fidget.

  • Bill T.

    The Senator wanted to tell a few “Your Momma” jokes, but he wasn’t sure how many Mommas Mitt had.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, an endorsement by a guy who picked S-a-r-a-h P-a-l-i-n as his running mate. Now there is someone with great credential­s!!

  • Anonymous
  • Hout Bosques

    Hey, I like Jimmy Carter, and I WISH Obama was taking advice from him, on climate change at least. If we hadn’t elected that failed actor in 1980, we’d be green energy secure by now & our species wouldn’t be facing extinction within this century.

    (We didn’t even have that good a run, as species go. But then, as Carl Sagan told us, a big contributing reason we’ve not been contacted by any other sentient beings from other planets in the galaxy is that the more technologically accomplished a species is, the quicker it reaches the point of killing itself off. So, we’re pretty much a statistic to Nature.).

    BTW McCain, who’s either forgotten or is lying, or maybe both, got his facts wrong – again. The “bailout” – TARP – took place on Bush’s watch, not Obama’s.

    (So, how good must if feel to Mittens to receive such an endorsement from a failed old coot of a lying egomaniac like McCain? Oh, things are going so WELL for Willard.)

  • Anonymous

    The end of an era and throw backs to the 1950′s. Good-bye to bad rubbish. It’s a new day in U.S.A. teabaggers, love it or leave it.

  • Hout Bosques

    The last bit of his mind went that night in late summer 2008 when he was introducing Palin to a crowd & couldn’t keep his eyeballs off her heinie.  

    What a cartoon of a bitter old man supervising the Mexkins doin’ his & Mitten’s lawns.

  • Hout Bosques

    I’m sure they’re so, so sorry they can’t count on your support – but they’ll soldier on, somehow. 

  • Anonymous

    But then O, you have to ask yourself…….Why, why did he invite the old fool? Can these Repugs possibly be any more Gilligan’s Island class stupid?

  • Hout Bosques

    Or the special shirt with the added material over the nipples so the rest of us don’t get unduly aroused in his presence.

  • Hout Bosques

    Hey, that’s pretty much the best schtick Dole ever did.

  • Hout Bosques

    Good times …

  • Hout Bosques

    That may not be the only smell. When they start acting like ol’ man McCain here, you get that distinct whiff of ‘old person’, where they can’t, uh, take care of their own hygiene all that well.

  • Hout Bosques

    He shouldna oughta pissed on Newt’s morning chocolate covered strawberries. Now Mittens is gonna pay. Newt’s on a mission. 

  • Anonymous

    TM, when a teabager has nothing to say or add, they just wipe the Santorum off their lips and pull something out of their butt.

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