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Mike Murphy is this Republican guy with crazy hair like Bozo the Clown would have, if Bozo the Clown had very fine straight hair and wasn’t dead. Whenever Mike Murphy shows up on Meet the Press he is wearing some ridiculous plaid jacket and talking actual sense about Republicans, which is unusual. Naturally, he will not be joining the McCain campaign.
Last week all these Washington jackasses could talk about nothing except the possibility that Maverick Murphy might join the McCain campaign, where he would tell the current crop of idiot advisors to quit sending the candidate to acting lessons and “let McCain be McCain.”
Of course they ignored him, and Mike Murphy will get back to his insanely lucrative consulting job while John McCain gets back to digging his own grave.
However, Murphy will probably still make the evening news rounds on McCain’s behalf, so there are many more delightful sportjacket/haircut combinations for America yet to behold.
Murphy won’t join McCain [Politico]
The clearest proof that Mike Murphy is good at what he does is that I actually like Mike Murphy. He does have a hilarious looking head, however.
He resembles Dick Cheney, but with not nearly as advanced male pattern baldness. Is this proof of his lesser evil?
Campaign manager Rick Davis had resisted the idea because, while Murphy has done a ton of winning races, he is a self-described control freak.
That’s just what WALTNUTS! needs, another finger in the piehole.
With cheeks like those, how could he NOT be on board with WALNUTS?
I think “let McCain be McCain” is fantastic advice, given that it will only hasten his electoral defeat/untimely death. Good times!
georgia_peach: Anyone else having a Bob Dole flashback this summer?
Money quote from the NYT article:
“I’ve never been registered in my life,” he said. “I told my partners months ago that if I did McCain, I’d leave the firm.”
If it got around that I did McCain, I’d leave the PLANET.
Let’s face it folks: the moment William Kristol predicted Murphy was about to join the McCain campaign, those of us in the reality based community should have realized that it was never going to happen. Kristol isn’t batting 1,257,463 to 0 for nothing.
Serolf Divad: imagine if that jackass is ever right about something?
nbawriter: I am, and it’s awesome. I’m just waiting for ‘ol W-NUTS to fall off a stage.
stop. making. sense.
What a maverick.
He really does look like Cheney sporting the strangest wig since Tancredo.
I always wondered what the fuck happened to Kent from Real Genius after the disappointment of not being named King of the Winter Carnival.
He’s got stratus hair in front, cirrostratus in back.
If I had a head the size and shape of a Smart Car, I’d want to keep the top down. Hey Murph, shave it.
ShortShadey: Win!
“They’re all Bozos on the Straight Talk Express.” Best Firesing Theater Album ever.
So the big cover-up re: Helms’ date of death is that they want to make sure he “died” on the same day as Adams and Jefferson instead of the same day as Bozo the Clown?
ShortShadey: Hm, or his face slid out from beneath his hair in a tragic ‘face slide’ incident. Uh.
I actually sort of like Murphy, but he and Carville make me think that campaign managers only come from the ranks of the undead.