Potter: Most ‘horrific’ McCain stories never ran

[deminks]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1208/Potter_Most_horrific_McCain_stories_never_ran.html

John McCain’s press shop and legal teams spent a lot of time answering questions about –- and preparing to rebut –- exposes that never ran, according to the campaign’s top lawyer, Trevor Potter.

“I could walk into our communications director’s office on any one day and there would be six or seven truly horrific stories sort of bubbling away on the stove,” Potter said Thursday morning during a panel discussion hosted by the University of California Washington Center.

“This journalistic entity was doing an expose on Cindy McCain. This journalistic entity was doing an expose on John McCain’s military record in Florida in the 1960s. On they went,” Potter continued. “Most of them probably never turned into anything,” he said, but they still took a lot of time to vet.

“That meant they were a problem for the legal office,” he said, partly because the lawyers had to pick up some of the slack when financial pressures forced McCain to pare down his press staff last summer, but also because the inquiries required some serious due diligence.

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I wondered if anyone inside the campaign noticed how many scandals there were. And gaffs, and misspeaks, and ...

[gratuitous]

1. But the major media were "in the tank" for Obama

Yeah, right. :eyes:

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Just like the "news" that we're in a recession (that started last year). k+r, n/t

[StClone]

3. Obama let'em stew

All the time, energy and money spent by the McCain camp on prepping for a scandal avalanche that never came saw some relief but mostly proved how ill-advised McCain's entire sorry run was in the end.

Oh, and for this glorious season, and song to the tune "My Favorite Things," in tribute to that grizzled feckless loser I give you...


Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting.
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings.
Bundles of magazines tied up in string.
These are a few of my favorite things.

Cadillacs and cataracts, and hearing aids and glasses.
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses.
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings.
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the pipes leak,
When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad.

Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions.
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions.
Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring.
These are a few of my favorite things.

Back pains, confused brains, and no need for sinnin'.
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin'.
And we won't mention our short, shrunken frames.
When we remember our favorite things.

When the joints ache,
When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I've had,
And then I don't feel so bad.

[Kolesar]

4. It still "kind of worked" with Pearl Jam in the background in my den

:headbang:

[immoderate]

5. Hey, that's really good!

That's not an easy tune either. :applause:

--IMM