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Posts Tagged ‘campaign strategy’

Mean Obama Ad Mocks John McCain For Talking On Brick Phone

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Barack Obama has taken off his gloves again and this is what we have, America: a goofy ad that points out John McCain can’t use a computer. The ad itself is so double-reverse-bizarro-meta ironic that it features that lame cursive font your local PTA likes to use on bake sale flyers. If this is their national media strategy, then we should all hope that the Obama team’s vaunted “ground game” is as sharp as ever. ["Still" Ad]


Former McCain Strategist Does Not Like New McCain Strategy

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Cease the tomfoolery!John Weaver left John McCain’s campaign a year ago and ever since he has been mournfully briefing the press on how crappily his old friend is running things. Yesterday, in the wake of the dumb commercial calling Barack Obama a Eurofag pop star, Weaver talked with the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder and unloaded a little bit more. MORE »


David Axelrod Lies Hilariously About Patti Solis Doyle Hiring Blowback

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

'I had no idea this notorious loser was so despised.'By March or April or whenever it was that she got fired, everybody knew that Patti Solis Doyle was personally responsible for every single thing that went wrong with the Clinton campaign, except for the things Mark Penn and Bill Clinton and the candidate herself and even Harold Ickes were responsible for. Ms. Doyle was banished to her native Chicago uranium mines with only her public humiliation to keep her company, until the Obama campaign hired her, with predictable results: the Clinton people went insane with rage. MORE »


McCain Resentful That Press Has New, Hotter Girlfriend

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Don't stop thinkin' about tomorrow!For 400 glorious years, John McCain has gotten daily handjobs from the national press corps because he lets them sit in the back of the bus with him while he dispenses salty bons mots and makes inappropriate jokes. But now all the favorable press coverage goes to Barack Obama, because he gets more people to come to his rallies. John McCain knows how Hillary Clinton feels now, which is why he’s stealing such winning moves from her playbook as “Change you can replicate with some sort of technology” and hiring a campaign team that fights pitched internecine battles on the front page of the New York Times. MORE »


Leak-Free Obama Staff Annoys Reporters

Monday, April 28th, 2008

No comment.The frustrating 2008 Democratic primary season has been made even more insufferable by the Obama campaign staff’s refusal to talk smack about any of their coworkers. This leaves a bitter press corps with no fun tidbits to write about, which is why it’s still good that Hillary Clinton is in the race. Basically, Barack Obama is like the George Bush of 2000, commanding a team of eerily happy and loyal drones who will all become torture-loving yes-men once they seize the reins of power. The secrets to Barack’s success, after the jump. MORE »


Mark Penn’s Bloated Carcass Thrown Under Clinton Campaign Bus

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

ugh.Hillary Clinton hasn’t even lost the nomination yet, but that hasn’t kept her underlings from turning on each other like a pack of angry gerbils. And now that they don’t have Patti Solis Doyle to kick around anymore, who’s the next target? Why, it’s the “message guru” who’s so good at what he does that nobody understands him! MORE »


He Doesn’t Need Your Flyover State

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

I can't look at this without gigglingGiuliani, once the iron-willed, practically unbeatable mayor of 9/11 has realized that his bullshit Nu Yawker faux conviviality crazy-eyed ferretty genius doesn’t play in many of the early primary states. So, he’s saying fuck it. Fuck Iowa, Fuck New Hampshire, Fuck South Carolina, he doesn’t need to win there as long as he can con old people in Florida (ex New Yorker snowbirds) and California to vote for him. He’s basically running the Democrats’ regular strategy (get the big blue states and some of the swing states) in the Republican primary, figuring that the red states will stay red in the general. Also, his campaign manager calls him “momentum-proof,” by which we think he meant that Rudy doesn’t need no stinkin’ momentum like all the candidates before him in order to win, but what it actually means it that he can’t possibly build any and that’s probably more accurate. [NY Times]


Obama Appeals to Indian-American Voters

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Following hot on the heels of the news that Oprah will be drumming up support for him among African-American and women voters, the Obama camp has set their sites on wooing the crucial Indian- American community. The above Bollywood-style campaign video features Obama speaking what we can only assume is Hindi and doing a little bit of dancing to a slamming techno-style beat. We think he might just be jealous of Mike Gravel.