Comments on: Friday Poll: What kind of gadget would McCain be?

Our weekly Crave poll asks which gadget best represents presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.

[ddesy]

Many people said phonograph? I love listening to records. I loathe McCain.

[Michichael]

Broken record knockback of the Bush Administration. I honestly don't see how anyone could sanely vote for McCain. It should be no contest. Then again, we've got people that believe in scientology that vote so I suppose anything is possible.

[pelicancrew]

Yeah, and those crazy scientologists vote for, guess who, the democratic nominee. Actually, the sane voters can see right through the Keith Olbermans, Michael Moores, Hollywood celebrities, and yes, even the Rush Limbaughs of this world....vote for what is best for the country, not for what Oprah tells you....I actually liked the IPhone choice for Obama-new,different, flashy, but really just a toy at this point, not a necessity.

[MadLyb]

I would have had a Hand Crank Telephone as an option.

[hhandyman]

Make that an edison cylender Phonograph An Original wind it up and repeats Mary Had a Little lamb.. The thing iis an analog man in a digital age.. Befor you complain hes disablled due to his war injury since he is not a recent victom of war and is far from broke He can get the most modern equipment and not even touch the computer and it will display print and even edit his words from an audio interface and we know he can talk.
too bad hes not willing to humble himself and ask the average kindergardener how to do the simplest things and grow from there..

[robert06890]

top of the line 8-track - still works, but its very s-l-o-w and not of today's world
or

cranky Walkman - never old songs, cantankerous quality, but it looks rather contemporary.
or

an old electric transformer- if you touch it wrong, it can and will kill you...

[discern]

A wedge-shaped stone.

[terraracer]

A Casio-VL tone, the kitchy hand held home synthesizer from 1980. It keeps playing the same old tune, and no matter what instrument you select, none of it sounds very genuine. It claimed to be something new and different at the time, but really it is best known for generating the same tired, old cheesy repeating phrases.

[discern]

No, make that a round, blunt stone.

[kelly13--2008]

Left Handed Door Knob

[Kev_Orng]

A sharpened stick?

[HighwayHome]

An ancient abacus, assuming he knows how to count.

[DigitalFrog]

I voted for the leatherman multitool, the others are a much more delicate devices that would quit working after one good hit/drop. I missed the Obama vote, but my choice for him would have been a tickle-me Elmo - cute and it's noises and motions make people happy, but doesn't eally do anything useful other than that.

[BigTenFan80]

That's giving him too much credit for modern technology. He would be more like one of the following: a Maxwell Smart shoe phone (vintage 1965) or a large shoulder mount video camera (vintage late 70's/early 80's). Probably the latter sineit's abou the time he left the Navy and had to stop paying attention to technology

[pchow98]

Age discrimination! I still have a records player with ruby needle and lots of LPs!
Seriously, I agree with DigitalFrog on Obama except I would say a marionette instead of tickle-me Elmo. Liberman and the rest of the "old-guards" of the parties will be drawing Obama's strings.

[mrspektacular]

I would have to say... some kind of tool. :0)

[spheretubebox]

Totally!

[krozzz]

McCain? A Republican screen-saver.

[wtortorici]

My idea is McCain would be a TRS-80 model1.
It worked if you had a pink eraser.
Otherwise it would crap out on you when you needed it the most.

[GreySkies01]

I would suggest he is like the tire I had to replace today.

Old, worn out and leaking hot air everywere with the chance of blowing out and dying at any time.

[pctec100]

How about a 5 1/4 in. floppy disk. It was useful at some point a long time ago, has limited memory capacity and if you have any of them still around you can bet they are corrupt.

[spheretubebox]

The wheel :)