Those of you that can remember it, anyway!
Anyhow, James Carville KNEW how to run a campaign...responded to every attack by the Bushies in the same news cycle and never allowed a charge to go unchallenged. After the debacle of the Dukakis campaign, I'm sure the Repugs expected the Dems to just roll over as usual, but they fought back at every turn. So the Bush campaign started whining like little girls. Bush gave the analogy of a gladiator (he being the gladiator) being buried up to his neck in sand, and when he fought back by biting his opponent "in a tender place", everyone cried "unfair". Basically the dems were using republican tactics and the repubs just didn't know how to deal with their own stuff being turned on them. After Clinton won the election, Molly Ivins (bless her soul, I miss her!) called the gladiator story the moment she knew Clinton had it locked up.
I think this may just be that moment. To be honest, I'm really not sure that Mittens is even going to make it through to the convention. This is NOT going away, and for all their whining, the repubs can't explain it, turn it around on Obama, or make it disappear. I think there's blood in the water.
And BTW, just in case any of you guys missed it, Schieffer is NOT happy about being used in this ad...the campaign did not ask his permission (are we surprised?) to use him in it.
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