Beer Ties Does A President Make
Buck April 3rd, 2008 - 9:42 am“The speedway appearance helped McCain court NASCAR voters, and his campaign circulated video of the event over the Internet.”
Helped him court NASCAR voters? Don’t war-mongering, bigoted republicans already have the trailer trash crowd in their back pockets?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — On a spring day at a speedway in the South, John McCain posed with his wife, Cindy, and racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr., highlighting the couple’s political and business interests in a single snapshot.
McCain served as honorary starter of the NASCAR race that weekend in Charlotte, N.C. Earnhardt drove the Budweiser car, painted military camouflage, rather than its trademark red, to honor the troops.
Budweiser, then NASCAR’s official beer, is brewed by Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., whose products have made Cindy McCain and her family a fortune.
John -> Cindy -> beer -> NASCAR -> trailer trash… you can’t say that McCain isn’t well-connected to his voters!
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Way to stereotype motor sports fans, you Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak. You can’t fool me  cultural elites are oppressing me, while the rich and powerful have my back. And a filthy rich guy like McCain, son of an admiral, knows more about reg’lar folks like me than that Obama feller, who grew up with far less privilege for at least parts of his life. Plus, he’s a Muslim, ain’t he?
(Seriously, the idea that he’s “courting” them is sorta funny on the one hand, but since mistrust of McCain’s conservative bona fides is pretty widespread, it makes some sense on the other. What’s also interesting is that that article doesn’t really get into that, but spends a great deal of time talking about the McCain’s wealth.)
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
He wins KBR will be serving Budweiser to the troops in Iraq.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
QG, don’t you mean KBR will be using Bud to electrocute the troops?