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Posts Tagged ‘strategy’

John Edwards Also Ruined Hillary Clinton’s Life!

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Hillary is always the last to know.Oh goody, we are now at the “blame John Edwards for pretty much everything” stage of the Edwards Was A Baby Mamma scandal. Somehow the mortgage meltdown and the brand-new war in Georgia will turn out to be his fault, but we’ll leave it to Sam Stein to uncover those crucial links. In the meantime, former Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson has found something else to blame on John Edwards: the implosion of the Clinton candidacy. MORE »


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 »


Barack Obama Visited The Fox News!

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Obamawatch endsAs promised, Barack Obama singlehandedly defeated a squadron of Fox News anchors at a game of pickup basketball and then he healed the lepers by touching them and sat down for a little chat with Chris Wallace on Sunday. The conversation was all very civilized until Wallace asked about his Muslim flag pin, which was given to him by the Weathermen back when they were Vietnam medics. Ha ha we kid! Even then President Cool maintained his legendary sangfroid. Selected Q&As after the jump. MORE »


A Children’s Treasury Of Pundits Celebrating Mark Penn’s Downfall

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Farewell, sweet lardbot!You know who’s happy about Mark Penn finally quitting/getting fired from the Clinton campaign? Everyone except Barack Obama, who considered Penn his ace in the hole for winning this whole endless election. But now that we won’t have that old unctuous creep to kick around anymore, let’s see what the rest of the Internetosphere is saying about the Numbers Swami Who Fell To Earth. MORE »


Brilliant Strategy Document Reveals Secret ‘Defeat Obama’ Plan

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Awkward.If you were John McCain and you had to defeat Barack Obama in order to become the world’s oldest non-Communist President, how would you do it? (Keep in mind that you cannot point out that Obama is “urban” or “at risk.”) The answer may surprise you! MORE »


Clinton Staff Turning Into Pack Of Winos

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Bless her for not drinking ChardonnayHillary Clinton’s love of wine has been widely chronicled in photographs and in print. Now an incendiary article published in the New York Times over the weekend suggests that her staff members have been running around drunk as lords as they try to drink away the pain of a faltering candidacy… MORE »


How Is Clinton Going To Pretend To Recover?

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Three of Hillary Clinton’s most diabolical advisers held a conference call today to lay out their plan for recovery. Its various steps do follow some rules of logic, only it’s a logic that will never happen.

So what are the Six Evil Ploys of Mark Penn, Harold Ickes and Howard Wolfson, and why will each fail? MORE »


Clinton Will Use Ron Paul Delegate Strategy To Clinch Nomination

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Everything is proceeding according to planJust as Ron Paul will harness confusion at the Republican National Convention to convert supposedly “pledged” delegates to his uplifting cause, Hillary Clinton will do the same on the Democratic side. A senior Clinton adviser told Politico’s Roger Simon, the guy who looks a bit like Henry Waxman except without the insane nose, that if forced the Clinton campaign would pursue the votes of pledged delegates–those assigned based on the results of primaries and caucuses. MORE »


Hillary Clinton Will Make You Sorry You Ever Doubted Her

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

She will clap and point until doomsday if necessarySo how many times has the Clinton campaign been declared over? Like 30? Today we have another slew of opinions about how and why Hillary has totally blown it, and a few lonely numbers that suggest she, like the T-1000, has yet to meet her own personal vat of molten metal. MORE »