On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:17 AM, mex sara wrote:
> > here they are calling it > > " ms palins wardrobe malfunction" > > talk about pandering it gets better... Designer Dress at Nieman Marcus: $1500 Designer Boots at Sak's: $900 Designer Glasses at Eye Masters: $400 Photographed at a campaign rally wearing a "Vote" scarf prominently featuring the icon of the opposite party? <http://tinyurl.com/5nohmz> Priceless. For meandering-message, discipline-less, incoherent political strategery, there's the McCain-Palin Campaign. For everything else, there's Mastercard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This ain't a 'gotcha'..she's SURROUNDED by campaign staff ALL THE TIME, just like McCain, Obama and Biden are; they all have a makeup person, every one of them HAS someone who checks them over before they go out on stage, whose JOB it is to catch these things. I've worked on campaigns before, even Congressional or state lege campaigns tend to make sure *someone* does a once-over on the candidate before they go out in public. I expect the elephants are on the other side of the scarf, or the scarves were intermingled on the rack and someone grabbed the wrong one, it's just *no one noticed*. This isn't a massive loser moment like putting Dukakis in a helmet that made him look like Rick Moranis in "Spaceballs", I'll grant you, it's merely a moment of humor, sure to pop up on Leno and "The Daily Show". But it's also telling of all the little things on a campaign level that the McCain campaign has been fumbling all along. Sweat the small stuff, and the big stuff tends to fall into place...if you've got good 'big stuff' in the first place. Winning presidential campaigns run on ruthless message discipline. We've seen it on both D and R sides; this is why Clinton won ('It's the economy, stupid!' wasn't a message to the R's, it was a message to the Clinton campaign staffers, reminding them to stick to the game*) and Kerry lost, because his campaign faltered on this issue and Bush's was relentless and single-minded. (and wrong, because he basically told the American people "You're all gonna die if you elect Kerry", but it was a winnable campaign strategy) *The Sundance Channel been running a documentary 'Return to The War Room' <http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500326125> talking to the principals of the first film, with discussions of current campaigns. Watching it made me realize how far we've come since 1992. James Carville was shaking his head as he recounted that no one had email or the web, they would post people at the fax machines, ripping off the fax as it came in and carrying it off to the appropriate person, and how EVERYONE both sides would stop everything at 5:00 every evening to watch the nightly news. There are campaign staffers on both sides today who have never known that there wasn't a 24-hour news cycle... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
