McCain No Longer “Hot”
I am in the unfortunate position this week of learning far more about Paris Hilton than I ever wanted to know. It seems that the heiress and unintentional pornography star feels she coined the phrase “that’s hot” which all the cool kids are saying. (Apparently I don’t know any cool kids.) But the only “hot” involved between Paris and the McCain team is that the Hilton family is a bit hot under the collar.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it seems that the new McCain ad criticizing Obama for being a celebrity has ruffled some unintended feathers. I, for one, quite liked the ad, but I hear whispers from the inner campaign staff that the phone was burning off the hook today with calls from Paris Hilton’s grandfather, William Barron Hilton (co-chair of the Hilton Hotel empire), furious that the McCain ad drew an unflattering comparison between Obama and his own granddaughter.
While it doesn’t come as any great surprise that William Barron Hilton and his son are Republicans, I will confess that I was unaware that they had donated large sums of money to the GOP in general and the McCain campaign in particular. They have also done some of the ground work in fundraising among their wealthy circle of friends. And now the phones are ringing in the McCain war room and the Hiltons are unhappy.
I previously told you how ridiculous the entire celebrity ad idea was, and now the law of unintended consequences has come calling. Most of us who got a passing grade in Snark Assessment 101 have taken the opportunity to toss a few brickbats at Paris during moments of boredom, but when a major party or presidential campaign takes that liberty, there can be consequences.
UPDATE: While I was preparing this piece, Shaun was already working on one of his own. Sorry, Shaun, and my apologizes to readers for the duplication of subject matter.
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Well, I commented on Shaun's . . . so I will reinterate here.
I thought the ad was brilliant.
Jazz's link suggests that because the Hiltons donated thousands to McCain's campaign, Mccain will fire the people who designed the ad.
But since McCain has gone on the attack, Obama's lead has dropped dramatically…and is now 1 percent in the latest Gallup.
Sure . . . McCain is gonna dump the person who designed the attack ads that cut down Obama. Yep, makes sense.
There is, for the info of those who may not know, no love lost between Paris Hilton's immediate family and her grandfather. Paris Hilton's immediate family actually has very little money . . . hence they rent homes . . . live off wealthy friends … shill bizarre business ventures continually (the Learjet Lifestyle on other's dimes). The grandfather has the bucks, and he has long been furious with Paris for her sex tapes, drug adventures etc. and angry that her parents condone this. Paris has been written out of his will.
So will McCain . . . now that he is in striking distance of Obama . . . toss overboard the person who is trying to bring message discipline to the campaign.
Yep, make a few thousand in donations . . . lose the Presidency.
McCain just might!
If McCain had any chance of winning the election, it might matter. However, what McCain does and how he does it is unimportant since he has zero chance of winning.
Why not look at how Senator Obama wants to raise the price of energy while giving more subsidies to farmers to make up for the higher price of energy? Why not discuss how Senator Obama wants famrs to produce less pollution while wanting to help family farms who are the least able to comply with new environmental regulation. Maybe someone should discuss what kind of local, organic farming can take place in the Dakotas or Michigan? Maybe, someone can reconcile the idea of Senator Obama's started desires for the next generation of rural Americans along with his desire to pack everyone into dense develop and have everyone ride public transportation.
Maybe once a day, someone can post something about policy, government programs, and the future instead of inside horse race analogies, polling data, and the past.
Marlowe,
The return of Gallup has to do with the Berlin speech fading from the news, not these McCain attacks. That's what a “bounce” is. Much of the electorate pays only scant attention to the news – especially now. Thus, they drift between undecided and one candidate.
“superdestroyer” has a sure-fire crystal ball, it seems. The ad takes the air out of the tires of a very shallow young man with no resume, a lot of shifting positions, & is a bit of a novelty item with good stage presence who can read a teleprompter.
Maybe sd should ask why this same youngster won't debate McCain in town hall contexts. Maybe he's a celebritard, maybe a rock star, maybe a barefoot boy with cheek or callow youth with chutzpah, but the ad does strike a chord.
And of course anyone who attacks Obama is a racist, according to the liberals—-so McCain can't win.
Except he quite possibly will—and previous election races have the person behind at the end of July winning almost every cycle since '68.