Yeah, you didn't bring enough...
-Money down the drain-
Willard Mitt Romney's vanity campaign for the GOP nomination came with a hefty price tag. According to the report, Romney "lent himself $7 million last month. That means Romney spent more than $42 million of his personal fortune on his failed campaign." And all he got was a reputation as a jerk who ran a lot of negative ads.
The math looks bad for future vanity candidates -- Mittens blew $167,000 each for his 235 delegates. Since a Republican candidate needs at least 1,191 delegates to score the nomination, the price tag for buying it outright would be $198,897,000. Call it $200 million.
Don't worry, I'm sure anyone who would be willing to drop that kind of cash is only interested in good government. (Raw Story)
-That didn't take long-
Reacting to a scandal over an inappropriate relationship with a female lobbyist, the McCain campaign decided that there was only one thing to do -- raise money.
McCain supporters received the following today; "Well, here we go. We could expect attacks were coming; as soon as John McCain appeared to be locking up the Republican nomination, the liberal establishment and their allies at the New York Times have gone on the attack. Today's front-page New York Times story is particularly disgusting -- an un-sourced hit-and-run smear campaign designed to distract from the issues at stake in this election. With John McCain leading a number of general-election polls against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the New York Times knew the time to attack was now, and they did. We will not allow their scurrilous attack against a great American hero to stand."
The email also hits MoveOn.org and the Democratic party -- although both are totally unrelated to this scandal. This mess is pretty much all John's doing.
Later, the Republican National Committee jumped in on the opportunity to hit up donors. "The New York Times has proven once again that the liberal mainstream media will do whatever it takes to put Senator Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in the White House," that email says. I'm still figuring out how the DNC, MoveOn.org, and the New York Times managed to force McCain to do this -- and how they had the foresight to get him to do it eight years ago. Clearly, the liberal elites have invented a time machine and a mind control ray.
It's the only explanation. (TPM Election Central)
-Headline of the day-
"Tucker Carlson Would Notice If Vicki Iseman 'Wore A Thong'."
That'd be the woman McCain had his affair with. See, Tucker had seen her around and he notices that kind of thing -- in a strictly professional way, of course. Check it out, there's no political observer of Washington who doesn't have an encyclopedic knowledge of the way lobbyists' asses look in pants.
It's just good journalism. (Huffington Post, with video)
