The Morning Scramble, Part 2 - 8/25/2008
No Runny Eggs —
... Ed Morrissey highlights another outreach from Team McCain to the PUMAs.
Cuffy Meigs highlights 3 women who are now very much in play for John McCain’s VP, including a new player, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman.
The Vintage one points out Whitman is pro-life.
Michael Medved shills for non-starter Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Curt found another non-starter, Colin Powell. Looks like I’ll have to start thinking about a last-minute look at the choices for McCain.
Bill Quick ...
Stoking Disunity
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
McCain's other Hillary ad features Debra Bartoshevich:
Nate Silver wonders about a backlash backlash:
I could see the ad being very effective. But it also tosses a big softball to Hillary Clinton, who will speak to a national audience on Tuesday. The risk to the Republicans can be summarized in five words: "Shame on You, John McCain". A finger-wagging, how-dare-you moment by either of the Clintons at the convention -- but especially Hillary -- could be both effective and ...
Clinton Support (?) for Obama
Wizbang —
... it is Obama's fault. Obama chose to run against Hillary in the primary. Obama supporters chose to accuse Bill Clinton of playing the race card. Obama chose Joe Biden over Hillary as VP. Don't be blaming Bill Clinton. Chris Rock at least doesn't say the Clintons are to blame if Obama loses. He just points out the obvious lack of Obamamania by the former President: I don't know how many Clinton supporters are going to be voting McCain, but they sure do seem to be popping up everywhere these days . This video ad about what Obama has(n't) done for Latinos ...




