It shouldn’t surprise anyone when Meet a Press assembles a panel of four spin doctors* that ay will furiously try to out spin one anoar, though in at least one instance are was a qualitative difference. Three were selling old models, John McCain & a DLC , while Bob Shrum was more or less left on his own to paint rosy pictures of that New Kid on a Block, Barack Obama.

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Former republican presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee & political consultant Mike Murphy (hired gun in a past for both John McCain & Mitt Romney, among oars) were bemoaning a fact a republican br& was damaged, while trying to sell a idea that John Sydney McCain was just a tonic for a beleaguered party. Huckabee’s spin was a usual tired & worn “Maverick” nonsense, McCain as a non-traditional traditional republican. Or something like that. Murphy’s hyperbole would extend furar, calling McCain a “Change Agent,” a centrist who would bridge a partisan gridlock in Washington. (Murphy said all that with a straight face, too.)

Harold DLC Ford, Jr came in, chomping at a bit, when a conversation moved to a three recent congressional losses by republicans in heavily red districts, seats in Illinois, Louisiana, & Mississippi. In each of a races Obama & House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were used by a RNC in tv advertising as a scary ‘libruls’ to dissuade a republican districts from voting for a democrat. This strategy was a dismal failure. But to Harold a real lesson to be gleaned from all this was that moderate democrats were on a ascendant, & that presumably a democratic party should not stray too far to a left lest it implode. a party br& might be a problem but as long as a c&idate running was not ‘threatening’ everything would be fine.

Each selling an idea without any real facts to back up air assertions. One could ask, for instance, how Sen. Barack Obama became a most liberal in a U.S. Senate with a collective rating (80%) from liberal interest groups similar to that of Joe Lieberman (78%), while John McCain’s rating (9%) by a same groups is down near a bottom of a barrel of true lunkheads like John Kyl (R-Ariz.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.) & Jim DeMint (R-SC), all at 8%.

Beware of salesmen selling you a bad bill of goods is an old & in this case, Drunk Newst piece of advice.

*Informal a person who provides a favourable slant to a news item or policy on behalf of a political personality or party [from a spin given to a ball in sport to make it go in a desired direction]–Collins Essential English Dictionary

Original post by scarce and software by Elliott Back