July 12, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Sweet, Tweet Revenge
By MAUREEN DOWD
NY Times

It was only a matter of time, once John McCain joined the 21st century
and got himself a Ford Fusion Hybrid, a Facebook page and a Twitter
account, that he would reconnect with people out of his past he would
rather forget.

But some people, including the conservative posing on the cover of this
week’s Time wearing purple toenail polish, are unforgettable.

And so comes this remarkable exchange of tweets between the erstwhile
mavericky twins.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — How the heck are ya, ya big hero?? Long time no
hear, pardner. Y did u defriend me on Facebook?

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — I needed room for Kissinger.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — Funny! Up here slaying salmon & assisting
orphaned moose calves w/ Todd & kids @ Bristol Bay. Need SUPERHUGE
favr!!??

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — Another one?

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — LOL! My publisher, Harpercollins, wants u 2
blurb my book. It wld b rockin’! u + me + hot pix of me = $$$!

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — Busy watchdogging Obama, who’s acting naïve
with kgb russians and spending like drunkn sailr. Apologies, drunkn sailrs.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — Obama is so uneconomic.

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — Warren Buffett says Wall St ripping off govt
on stimulus. He says 1st stimulus bill like eating half-tab Viagra & candy.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — First Dude doesn’t need Viagra!!! So, anyhoo,
the blurb?

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — Hanging with Joe & Lindsey. Was on CSPAN’s
Wash Journal, in case you missed it go to my website to watch video.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — Like I have time to watch CSPAN when I’m all
over NBC, ABC, CNN, and FOX, u goose!! And my cool Time “Renegade” cover!!!

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — Very busy tracking China unrest, Honduras
coup, thugs running Burma, protests in Iran. Obama weak-kneed on Iran.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — Whatev. But seriously, I’m riding a really big
story up in AK, in case you hadn’t noticed. Me and Jacko rule the news!

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — That’s exactly what’s wrong with my former
base, the media.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — No need 2 get snippy. Life with u wasn’t so
awesome. Vanity Fair says ur BFFs called me “Little Shop of Horrors.”

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — I see u still can’t control Levi, who says u
quit 2 cash in on the book and TV offers. On Fox, you’d b just another fox.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — Just progressing my bank account. Couldn’t marry
rich like some lucky cusses we know.

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — Leave Cindy out of this and I won’t tell you
how I really felt about antics of “The Real World: Wasilla.”

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — I should’ve quit ur campaign when ur team was
undermining me, just like Obama WH is doing 2 me now on ethics complaints.

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — That’s ridic. You’re more paranoid than
Hillary. Quitting isn’t noble. That’s why I’m still fighting nasty earmarks.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — And I hear ur losing on those, old timer. Maybe
u should think about quitting.

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — Hey, Daffy. I’m running for reelection next
yr. Some of us know u have 2 b in govt to “effect change” in govt.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — That’s the old-fashnd thinking that got ur butt
kicked. I did all I could 2 get u crowds & drag u across the finish line.

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — Peggy Noonan’s right. U r “the most careless
sower of discord since George W. Bush” Http://tinyurl.com/ll833p

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — I can’t stand her or your pal Mike Murphy, who
says my only accomplishment is my “smirking enemies” in media elite.

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — U can’t hate the media and b so obsessed with
it at the same time.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — The media can too be my frenemy.

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — Ur sounding a little cockamamie.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — “Most newspapermen by definition have to be
liberal; if they’re not ... they can hardly be good newspapermen” W.
Cronkite.

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — U might want to make up with Letterman. I
did. He’s not a bad guy.

PALIN: @SenJohnMcCain — Y in heaven’s name wld I follow ur example? I’m
the pt guard fast breaking for an easy lay up. How bout that blurb, Pops?

MCCAIN: @AKGovSarahPalin — OK, here’s ur blurb: “The Keating Five was
nothing compared to the Alaska One. America, I’m sorry.”




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Who says Palin is not a joke?

:)