The sleazemeisters have taken over
July 31st, 2008 at 09:23am Pat Cunningham
Steve Schmidt (above), a protege of the infamous Karl Rove, is NOW IN CHARGE of the garbage-slinging detail at John McCain’s campaign. Consequently, we’ve begun to see such irrelevancies as comparisons of Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
I doubt, however, that Schmidt & Co. are going to have as much success this time around as they previously did selling George W. Bush and his ill-advised war to an unsuspecting nation.
Americans aren’t that stupid. They’re not likely to buy more stuff from an outfit that already has peddled them shoddy goods under false pretenses.
UPDATE: According to THIS PIECE: “For McCain, the new and sharply negative tone toward Obama could damage the Republican’s image as a maverick who rejects the attack-dog politics of traditional Washington.”
UPDATE II: McCain’s handlers have trouble keeping him “on message,” as he sometimes WANDERS OFF into contradictory ramblings.
Entry Filed under: Karl Rove, Steve Schmidt, War in Iraq, John McCain, President Bush, Barack Obama
12 Comments Add your own
1. redrover | July 31st, 2008 at 9:33 am
Pat Cunningham sez:
Americans aren’t that stupid. They’re not likely to buy more stuff from an outfit that already has peddled them shoddy goods under false pretenses.
Pat, sir, are you running for the office of Prince of Wishful Thinking?
Americans? Not Stupid? Watch this and decide for yourselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
2. Pat Cunningham | July 31st, 2008 at 9:51 am
That’s a very funny video, Rover. But it hardly represents a cross-section of Americans. By the way, I once read a survey in which a surprising percentage of Americans said Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.
3. LD | July 31st, 2008 at 10:08 am
McCain making fun of Paris Hilton? That should teach Paris’s parents a lesson for only contributing a paltry $4600 to the McCain campaign.
4. Mike Carroll | July 31st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
“Steve Schmidt (above), a protege of the infamous Karl Rove, is NOW IN CHARGE of the garbage-slinging detail at John McCain’s campaign. ”
Newsflash-this just in-Pot calls kettle black.
5. Pat Cunningham | July 31st, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Mike: I don’t follow you. If I’m supposed to be the pot in your little metaphor, the comparison is bogus. You see, I’m not running anybody’s campaign. Truth be known, if most of my readers are Illinoisans, as I assume they are, I’m wasting my energy dissing McCain and pimping for Obama. The Chosen One, as we disciples like to call him, is a cinch to carry this state, barring some horrible scandal.
6. Mike Carroll | July 31st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Pat-I wasn’t referring to you. I was referring to the Democratic Party.
7. Pat Cunningham | July 31st, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Mike: Good for you, and shame on you. The good: Unlike most of your Publican friends, you used the correct name of the Democratic Party. The shame: I had hoped you were referring to me. I like to be referred to. I want to be talked about and become a celebrity so that maybe John McCain will diss me. I want to be on John McCain’s fecal roster. I’m still hurting from having been omitted from Nixon’s enemies list. Damn, that would’ve been sooo cool.
8. Mike Carroll | August 1st, 2008 at 7:21 am
Pat-I have never been able to figure out the “Democrat Party” thing. Why do people that use it think its some kind of insult and why do Democrats care?
The whole thing sounds like gradeschool playground name calling.
9. Mike Carroll | August 1st, 2008 at 7:26 am
BTW Pat-You’ll see a bit less of me around here (the good news) and the reason will impact you (the bad news).
At my request, I am moving to a 4 day a week work schedule as a way to test the retirement waters. Lets see if I can keep myself reasonably busy without the full schedule grind.
The bad news? I have asked that my resulting lower Social Security contributions be taken directly out of your benefit. Tighten up the old belt. I see dog food in your future.
10. Pat Cunningham | August 1st, 2008 at 7:41 am
Mike: Two things: 1) Why should your new schedule reduce your input here? I would think that just the opposite would be the case. And 2) Regarding the “Democrat Party” thing, I wrote this six months ago yesterday:
The genesis of this Democrat-as-an-adjective silliness is not entirely clear. According to one theory, it all started with Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the infamous red-baiter and witch-hunter of a half-century ago. Others say it can be traced to the late 1950s when a man named Meade Alcorn, chairman of the Republican National Committee, issued a directive to his minions to thereafter avoid use of the word “Democratic.”
McCarthy’s example or Alcorn’s admonition, whichever it was, has been heeded to this day among the party’s more zealous elements. And woe to he or she who dares stray from this orthodoxy.
Jay Nordlinger, managing editor of the conservative National Review Online, has written of the guff he gets from some readers for his refusal to misuse “Democrat.” John L. Perry of the even more rightist NewsMax.com also refuses to go along with those who “abuse consciously or misuse ignorantly” the D-word.
The late Sen. Sam Ervin once said: “I have been trying to reform Republicans all my life and have had virtually no success, but I would like for them to adopt good grammar and quit using the noun ‘Democrat’ in lieu of the adjective ‘Democratic.’ If I can teach the Republicans that much grammar, I will feel that my effort to educate them has not been entirely in vain.”
11. Mike Carroll | August 1st, 2008 at 7:53 am
Pat-1.On my days off I tend to go online far less often. At work, I’m always online and going to Applesauce for a couple of minutes every hour or so tends to clear my head.Of course there are times when it binds up other body parts.2.Thanks, must have missed that.
12. Pat Cunningham | August 1st, 2008 at 8:19 am
By the way, good luck in your 20 percent of retirement.
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