David Letterman's Old-Man McCain Jokes

Several nights this past week David Letterman riffed on various presidential candidates. Both Wednesday and Thursday he did a few minutes monologue that alternated between Ralph Nader and John McCain "he looks like the kind of guy who..." jokes. Condensed for easy viewing, here are Letterman's funniest McCain jokes from those monologues. (ex. "McCain looks like the kind of guy who spends all day in the coffee shop of a municipal golf course.")

Watch:

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Comments

[Jericho]

06:00 PM on 03/03/2008

John McCain seems like the kind of guy who bombs Iraq again and blames it on Alzheimers'.
John McCain seems like the kind of guy who takes home the dementia-vote.
John McCain seems like the kind of guy who gets busted with Anna Nicole Smith and a cigar in the oval office.

[wmbear]

01:57 PM on 03/03/2008

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE DAMN HAGEE-MCCAIN ENDORSEMENT STORY ON HUFFPO?...


This is the only McCain thread I could find here today. Unlike the McCain-Lobbyist scandal of a couple of weeks ago, this one actually looks like the mainstream media may pick it up and run with it. There was even an AP headlined story on Yahoo about this. Evidently, Catholics are making a big enough stink (and who can blame them?) about Hagee's anti-Catholic bigotry to counter the MSM's fear of evangelicals with their fear of alienating an even larger audience bloc. WOOHOO!

[shaggles]

01:41 PM on 03/03/2008

Those jokes are pretty harmless. McCain's age is getting much less play than Reagan's did in 1980. I doubt it will be a factor.

[Draculich]

01:49 PM on 03/03/2008

He hinted at an incursion into Germany over the weekend...
full story here...www.dungtongue.com

[longislandlol]

12:09 PM on 03/03/2008

As an Independent -leaning towards Obama- I'm happy with McCain- because he really is the most liberal to moderate repub. they could have picked; I'm just weary over who they'll force upon him to pick as his V.P.

[VivaZapata]

08:20 AM on 03/03/2008

It's not McCain's age that's the problem; he's had the same war paint on for decades. the only way McCain can get elected is through the magic of DIEBOLT, or the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.

[villastrangiato]

01:53 PM on 03/02/2008

"Well, my friends........laugh it up all you want........but I'm still the best liberal republican......uh....oops... hellooooo........conservative republican running for the White House....."

This guy was a charicature of himself years ago - now he' s looking more like the republican's new version of "the village idiot"......LOL

[Anciano]

12:18 PM on 03/02/2008

Did a little research about MeetWealthyBoomer etc.
There's a hairy guy named Sclomo out of Israel that runs the site and plays the part of the women. Also, it's a proving ground for the very best and newest Russian viruses.

[Anciano]

12:13 PM on 03/02/2008

It's really important to create a visual and aural monicker for McCain.

I like "McW". It has the connotation of "Mc" as in "McDonalds", a lowering of quality to junk food status as in "McJobs", "McPolitics" etc. "W" is of course the most despised letter in the English language now. It implies the continuity of the Worlds Worst pResident. Put the two together and you have a nice short three letter combination that says it all.

Also, "McCrazy", "McInsane", nice homonym for his name. But they are clumsy to say and are disrespectful of the man.
Face it folks, of all the the candidates, he obviously has the most military experience, is probably the most patriotic of all of them and is a very decent individual, based on his public persona. However, the future of our country is at stake and so the best of the worst is the logical choice. Go Obama.

[Ramirez]

10:22 AM on 03/03/2008

Take your time and pick a good nickname. You're going to be using it for at least four years.

[MIHOP]

10:51 AM on 03/02/2008

Just can't get by the fact that -

"John McCain is the kinda guy who gets mugged by Rove and turns and hugs Bush."

[doinaheckofajob]

11:39 PM on 03/01/2008

Idiocracy

the dumbing down of America is accelerating under the GOP idiots bureaucracy. George Bush isn’t dumb enough, we need to keep the fools game going for another hundred years. Anyone childish enough to support Bush and his criminal henchman McCrazy at this stage of the take down are fools or mental midgets. Polite talk is only going to get you fucked again.

[Seattlelite]

11:05 PM on 03/01/2008

I think we should all start referring to McCain as McBush just to remind people that his policies are tied to the last 8 years. They want to use Obama's middle name to scare people well McBush should really scare the crap out of people.

[doinaheckofajob]

10:36 PM on 03/01/2008

you're worried about four letter words when morons like juliesa defends a criminal like bush? you must be retarded too.

[Ramirez]

10:38 PM on 03/01/2008

Thank you for not cursing, doin.
Now, that's better, isn't it?

[Viper]

10:31 PM on 03/01/2008

MCain looks like the kind of guy who hates government , but had the Government pay for his education, his healthcare, the roof over his head and his food and has never had a JOB outside of the government.


McCain is the kind of guy who complains about Big Government but has been in the Senate while the deficit went from one trillion to ten trillion, 80% of that under Repug Presidents he supported. More than half by a Repug controlled congress and W.H.

McCain is the kind of guy who says Amercians are dumb and just need some job traing while 75% of those graduating in the sciences cant get a job in their chosen area..

Regards

[Ramirez]

10:47 PM on 03/01/2008

I think you mean "debt" and not "deficit".

You're right about McCain spending his entire career on the government payroll. Shameless.

[SonnyBono]

09:35 PM on 03/02/2008

No true - McCain had a public relations job with his father in law after he left the navy - while waiting for a Congressional seat to open up. He traveled around Arizona talking up Bud and the virtues of John McCain (must have been before he met Keating).

[anons]

09:38 PM on 03/01/2008

wow, now that's comedy. Vicious and hilarious. at least someone's benfitting from the return of their writers (see Bill Maher's increasingly shitty show)

[RightBrain]

08:40 PM on 03/01/2008

Odd that the 62 yo David Letterman would be making age jokes about someone only nine years older than himself. Its Letterman who had a quintuple heart bypass not McCain.

Typical Dem move: ridicule a war hero while running Nurse Ratched and a black teenager for President.

[SlinkyTWF]

08:50 PM on 03/01/2008

Dear ignoramus troll #45435345324554677,

Without even going into the recent history of swiftboating, you apparently forget when GHWB derisively referred to Korean War fighter ace Sen. John Glenn as the "space man."

And your response is to immediately disparage, in the most childish manner, the Democratic Party front runners. I guess that one man's high ground is another man's peat bog.

It's ironic that you mention the Nurse from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. How's that lobotomy working out for you?

[shockmagog]

08:53 PM on 03/01/2008

Why not? George W. Bush and company ridiculed a war hero in 2000--make that (at least) two:

John McCain and Max Cleland while running a drug-using draft-dodging champaign National Guard coward (and not even serving his term there, because he went AWOL, because he couldn't pass his drug test to finish his million dollar flight training).

But I'm sure you'll agree, the bar of fairness and equity is much lower for Republicans. Whatever.

[JulieSA]

09:33 PM on 03/01/2008

You'd have more credibility if you didn't exaggerate. Bush finished his flight training and flew domestic missions for several years. He had permission to skip the last few mos. No one went AWOL. National Guardsmen who are serving in Iraq would object to your denigration of the Guard.

I'm not familiar with the other stuff, but I know you're wrong about the TANG info. Don't make stuff up

And even if GWB DID make fun of a war hero, does that it make it ok for you to do so?.