Again, Clinton's Poor Choice in Surrogates Overshadow the Candidate! RE: McAuliffe

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Although Hillary Clinton must take responsibility for her own candidacy, her poor choice in surrogates bit her in the butt again by making Terry McAuliffe's over the top performance more of the story than Hillary's victory. From Bill's controversial comments, to the despicable Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson and most recently Terry McAuliffe, Hillary's choice on those who surround her has taken it's toll in the media coverage:

Never Die!!
05.13.08 -- 11:26PMBy Josh Marshall
Even with Hillary's blow-out win in West Virginia and the amazing Democratic victory in Mississippi, for me tonight's going to be about Terry McAuliffe's tour de force moment when he turned projectile nonsense into something approaching the sublime ...

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McAuliffe Spars With Matthews, Calls Him 'Obama Campaign Chair'

May 13, 2008 11:31 AM

Read More: Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Terry McAuliffe, Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe, Terry McAuliffe, Video, Politics NewsPolitics
In the race to decide the Democratic party nominee, it's more or less all over but the sarcastic remarks, but what sarcastic remarks they are! And what a treat it is to see two gentlemen best known for verbal diarrhea pointlessly jabbing at one another on the teevee. We speak, of course of Chris "Mr. Tingle" Matthews and Premature Killer Of Fathers Terry McAuliffe, who met on Morning Joe to blather about Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the nomination. McAuliffe got things started by calling Matthews the "Obama campaign chair." Matthews responded by threatening to inject McAuliffe with truth serum. But it was Mika Brzezinski who got in the best line, for the win.



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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/13/mcauliffe-spars-with-matt_n_101503.html





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Late Update: Now Terry McAullife is losing his mind and his voice live on TV.



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[davidpdx]

1. You hit the nail on the head

This has been a problem throughout her campaign. While Obama has had some problems with surrogates, Clinton has had very chronic problems with them. Staying on message is one of the keys to a campaign and when your surrogates don't help you do that, they hurt you.