John McCain: Chewing gum as a political metaphor | Celebrating the 20 year anniversary
A piece today in that great blog Politico today tries to handicap what McCain’s speech to the Republican convention on Thursday might be like, noting that McCain — not noted for being the most gifted of public speakers — often gives “boffo convention speeches.”
The piece goes on to give some examples, including one from 20 years ago about Dukakis that, well, warms the heart of AndrewsGumWorld when McCain turns to a familiar confectionery metaphor to make a point:
In 1988, he gleefully joined the GOP chorus that was savaging Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis for being clueless when it came to national defense. Dukakis, McCain thundered, “seems to believe that the Trident is a chewing gum, that the B-1 is a vitamin pill and the Midgetman is anyone shorter than he is.”