The jig is up, media. The voters are are on to you. It’s because you’ve gotten lazy. You don’t even try anymore to mix it up. It’s the same patterns. Does Maureen Dowd just phone it in these days? In 2004, she wrote that John Kerry was the elitist snowboarding, boy toy to a rich heiress. This year it’s John McCain. And I can’t believe she is suggesting that Sarah Palin go to Penney’s to buy her campaign wardrobe.
By the way, Maureen, I LOVE your Georgetown home. That custom colored Benjamin-Moore pink paint is gorgeous. Maureen, you are an inspiration to bloggers everywhere. Maybe if I cut back on my snarky posts to twice a week, I too can live in such swank surroundings.
$150,000 on clothes is a drop in the bucket compared to the obscene amounts of money that the Obama campaign has been spending on advertisment. The Obama campaign raked in $150 million in campaign contributions in September and *still* I get half a dozen requests for money in my email box every single day. Obama bought his own channel on DiSH. Yep, if I go to channel 73, I can see non-stop Obama 24/7.
The funny thing is, I don’t think it’s working. If you want to avoid Obama ads, you use your DVR and never go near channel 73. Just fast forward through all of the hopey changey stuff. Ad time is expensive but I think it’s getting to be less and less effective. Republicans, on the other hand, have taken a decidedly low tech, inexpensive approach that’s pretty hard to miss. They have plastered McCain/Palin signs all over my route to work in the morning. The sheer number is breathtaking. They must be very busy at night. I don’t see as many Obama signs. Or should I say “OBAMA biden” signs.
Well, I guess that’s what you’re stuck with when you opt for public financing. That lousy $84 billion doesn’t go as far as the $500 million and counting that Obama has spent. (By the way, where is all that money coming from???) You’d think you could get more impact with that much filthy lucre. Like, in a year when the Democrat could. not. possibly. lose. $500 million should put Obama so far out in front that McCain/Palin *could* have just shopped at Penney’s for all the good it would have done them. But this race is still well within their reach.
Well, you know what they say:
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