- Now I'm not a crisis management consultant, but I'm pretty sure that when Republican Georgia Gubenatorial candidate Dave Spence hired Matuschka Lindo Briggs to help him weather the whole 'I don't know if Obama is a Muslim' thing, he probably did not expect her to accidentally email the press corps his briefing memo on how to handle the issue. Don't you love it when bad consultants happen to bad people?
- Apparently Obama has Caligula beat, at least according to Darrell Issa who said, "We are busy in Washington with a corrupt government, with a government that I said more than a year ago was perhaps -- because of the money, because of the amount of TARP and stimulus funds -- was going to be the most corrupt government in history, and it is proving to be that, just exactly that." And you should believe him, because let's face it, Darrell Issa knows corruption.
- Congresman Mike Fitzpatrick cuts out the hemming and hawing and just says that if reelected President Obama will start selling off state secrets.
- I always thought Earth Day was just a great day for a picnic, but Fox News' Eric Bolling is there to set me straight: Earth Day "is about undoing what makes America great."
- Mitt Romney is giving the commencement speech at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University as an attempt to reach out to Religious Right extremists. Which makes the fact that the Liberty students are threatening to boycott because they've been taught for 4 years that Mormonism is a cult, something akin to cosmic justice.
- Which reminds me, I know I spent some time yesterday mocking Republicans pathetic attempts to reach out to young voters, but don't worry Mitt Romney has a plan to win them over: “My guess is you’ll see a dramatic difference in the youth vote this time — part of it is you have a younger, more dynamic Republican candidate.” Just to review, McCain was 72 when he ran for President, Romney is 65. I guess they're really counting on the fact that McCain could remember World War II, while Romney can only remember the Korean War to somehow swing it for them.
- Ron Paul has pledged that regardless of delegate math he's going to stay in until the convention, presumably because his stealth delegate strategy might actually work well enough for him to "win" 5 states and be able to make motions from the floor. Which might explain why Mitt Romney is asking RNC delegates to sign loyalty pledges before they can meet him (don't worry, they also have the option of signing a secrety loyalty pledge). Or it might just be that he's a sad, unpopular, creepy man.
- Senator Scott Brown explains how to appear like a sexist alcoholic in two easy steps: Step 1. Give an interview on April 20th in which you claim not to have had a drop of alcohol since the start of the year. Step 2. Have a story come out about an April 12th event where: “You can pound those pretty good,” Brown said as he tasted one of the lighter brews. His favorite was a hoppy beer called Red I.P.A. “Sit down. Try this one. I’ve seen you in the bars before, don’t act like you’ve never been to a bar,” he said, sliding over a stool. “We’re gonna have her dancing in the back of the truck.”
- Republicans have apparently decided that the best way to attack the sitting President of the United States is to attack him for a lack of experience. I'm not sure why they expect Obama's response to be anything but laughter followed by "you guys know that I've actually been President for 3 year now, right?", or more importantly Democrats reminding people that Mitt Romney mocked Obama during the 2008 election for saying he'd go into Pakistan to get Bin Laden if he had to. For that matter the fact that Romney's campaign keeps forgetting that the Soviet Union no longer exists is fairly troubling too. But hey, the "inexperienced" and "celebrity" attacks worked so well for McCain in 2008 that I'm sure they'll work even better now against the Commander in Chief when made by the one term former Governor of Massachusetts who has no foreign policy experiece at all.
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