We’ve had our fill of depressing news today

The state budget is at an all-time low, an Arizona congressman has been indicted, the mayor and his wife have split, we’re being conned on border security by the feds, a former governor died, our presidential choices are bleak, the Patriots are accused of cheating and snowstorms are tying up air traffic in New York. 

Seeing Red AZ thinks we are sorely in need of some comic relief.

 Watch this Obama campaign video for a uproarious change of pace

Interesting weekend for preacher’s wife?

Weekend outing includes boxing bout and Hooters Casino Hotel stay

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas—especially if you’re the wife of a presidential candidate. Just ask Janet Huckabee, who attended a middleweight prize fight this past weekend in Las Vegas - where she stayed at the Hooters Casino Hotel.

That eye-opening combination - a title bout in Sin City, which celebrates gambling, drinking and all things wild, along with a hospitality chain favoring buxom waitresses in low-cut garb - could potentially shock the armies of evangelical conservative Christians who have made her husband, the former governor of Arkansas, the only remaining GOP opponent to party front-runner John McCain.

But Janet Huckabee, whose husband is also a former Baptist minister, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that her recent brief excursion to root for boxer Jermain Taylor, a longtime friend and fellow Arkansan - and her stay at a hotel that she said wasn’t exactly her first choice - was supposed to be a rare respite from the often-brutal presidential campaign trail.

Phil Gordon makes headlines for doing nothing

Star quality?

The daily is so fond of Phoenix’s liberal mayor, they give him coverage for not running for congress. Hey, even Gordon knows his limitations.

Wonder if fawning AZ Republic reporter Casey Newton is also assigned the task of warding off Gordon’s pesky paparazzi?

Truth is what gives humor its gusto

McCain concedes: Tips the sombrero to Mexican voters

Okay, so we’re a couple of days late with this, but timing isn’t everything when the joke is this good.

Sloppy inattentiveness or delusions in Michigan GOP?

The dog ate my mind

Hard to imagine, but he Michigan state GOP actually sent out a press release congratulating the wrong guy in yesterday’s primary.

Fish-wrapper headline: McCain turns optimism toward New Hampshire

Fourth place glee

If coming in behind late entrant Fred Thompson, with a meager 13% of the Iowa vote, and not showing in the top-three-tier makes McCain optimistic,” what would his reaction be to a victory?

Can you invest a week to make history?

Pack your bags and bring plenty of cash. The cash-strapped campaign won’t be able to put you up in a Motel 6 or feed you at Señor McCain’s favorite, Taco Bell. But, they do want you as an unpaid worker at all of their national primary and caucus sites.

McCain is so used to promoting low-wage and exploitable illegal laborers, he might have confused them with actual American citizens.

The McCampaign email reads:

Can you invest a week to make history?

We need you in Las Vegas, Reno or Laughlin, Nevada in the days leading up to the Nevada caucus on January 19th.

Please fill out the form at http://vol.JohnMcCain.com and pack your bags! Thank-you!Bill Bloomfield, Director of Volunteers

Señor McCain’s desperation springs eternal: Send in your fifty bucks for a shot at a hot time in icy New Hampshire

 

This exciting message direct from the McCain campaign:

Be the lucky person who gets to spend January 8th in New Hampshire with Senator McCain and the campaign staff as we push on to victory! Every person who donates at least $50 between now and January 4th and every maxed out donor to the campaign will be eligible to win this opportunity to be a part of McCain history.

Donate at least $50 below and you will be eligible to be a part of the fun and excitement that is the New Hampshire Primary! We will contact the winner by phone on January 5th so you have time to make your travel arrangements to New Hampshire. Official Rules and Restrictions. 

Sounds like a ton of fun, but we’re planning on cleaning out the garage and washing the dog that day.

Mitt Romney’s in good company

Liberal newspaper’s potshots at Republicans are predictable

The Concord Monitor has an abysmal record in past presidential endorsements. The paper attacked Ronald Reagan and George Bush (41), heaping praise on John Anderson.

About Reagan the paper editorialized, “Though personable, he is on the sidelines of contemporary American thought, and could not win a national election if he won the GOP nomination.”