In the category of more unsolicited advice they didn’t ask for, are tired of getting, and will certainly ignore, I’ll holler one more pitch from my armchair to the McCain campaign (I’m a political consultant, I can’t help it). There is no state by state way to break out of the campaign’s current spiral. Trips [...]
Republicans are hoping that the revelations about Sarah Palin’s big shopping spree will be a minor sensation that will fade after a news cycle or two. I don’t think so. This one will stick, and it should. Palin is not the only politician to find herself in this spot during this election season–or to learn [...]
While everyone today is clucking over the cost of Sarah Palin’s wardrobe, this report could prove at least as troublesome, because it involves the use of taxpayer money, not political contributions: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) _ Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not [...]
• “This one, also from the NRA, but against Obama, is even better! It’s about how Obama will allow people to break into your home and stab your children and then make YOU the criminal when you shoot the intruder.” [Radar] • Are you there, Barack? It’s me, Judy. [YA for Obama] • Where, if [...]
Such was the subject of a McCain campaign conference call today featuring senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann and former CIA director Jim Woolsey. The stated purpose of the call was to discuss a Washington Post story this morning which, in a “rather irresponsible and quite outrageous fashion,” said campaign aide Michael Goldfarb, “tried to [...]
I saw the RNC statement on Gov. Palin’s $150,000 clothing bender on the RNC’s tab. This caper is gonna make for a long day at the office for the good folks at the RNC/McCain press operation. Thought I’d offer a little help in a humorous vein; some other possible spin lines for the RNC. 1.) [...]
But the only one you’ll have time to read for now. From Robert Draper’s 8000-word story on the (Re)(Re)(Re) Making of John McCain: “We had a narrative problem,” Matt McDonald recalls. “Obama had a story line: ‘Bush is the problem. I’m not going to be Bush, and McCain will be.’ Our story line, I argued, [...]
I admit I was among those who were initially a bit skeptical about Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama. How much, I wondered, did it have to do with the damage done to Powell’s own reputation caused by his service as George W. Bush’s secretary of state? And why, I wondered, did Powell wait until [...]
