Whirled News - Deceased Senator Roman Hruska Supports McCain

Ex-Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska (R-NE), dead since 1999, has returned from retirement to support John McCain and Sarah Palin in the 2008 Presidential race. The return of Hruska is widely seen as a remarkable coup for the McCain-Palin campaign.

“We used our right-wing Christian connections on this one to resurrect Roman,” said a spokesperson for the McCain campaign, “Hruska is the ideal person to support Governor Palin for Vice-President.”

In 1970, Hruska famously defended Nixon Supreme Court nominee G. Harrold Carswell by stating, "Even if he is mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance?"

In her interview with ABC’s Charles Gibson, Governor Palin immediately welcomed Hruska’s help. Asked by Gibson whether she knew who he was, the Governor responded, “Of course I do, Charlie. He was in government once, Charlie, and like John McCain he supports everything I’ve memorized for this interview. Pro-family, Charlie. Strong America, Charlie, and American values. Strong defense, Charlie. Charlie, like Senator McCain, he’s for lower taxes and an end to tax-and-spend government. He wants to drill, Charlie, drill, so we can get ahead of this global warming thing once and for all, Charlie”

In the most recent Internet ad, a slightly green Hruska, with one ear rotted and his teeth more prominent with his lips having fallen away, stands shakily but defiantly on a cane and says, “I stand here today in defense ofAmerica, and John McCain is the perfect man to be standing just as I am to be President. In addition to the wisdom that comes with age, we are both proud Romans, we will defeat the thick-lipped, savage Carthaginians, and our Empire will triumphantly rule forever.”

A McCain spokesperson denied that the ad made a veiled racist reference to opponent Barack Obama. “This campaign has never stooped to racism. We respect Senator Obama even though he’s been too lazy and irresponsible to show up at his job for weeks yet expects that hard-working American people will just hand everything over to him.”