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Mayhill Fowler: Rolling With McCain In South Dakota
STURGIS -- What does it say about the McCain Campaign that the poster for Monday's event featured a bar blond in chaps and bikini-top riding a buffalo, her left hand in a tuft of b-hair, her right cradling a beer? John McCain -- his photo -- is smaller and below her. The billboard on the road into Sturgis, site of the 68th annual Jackpine Gypsies motorcycle rally, read "Kellie Pickler, Kid Rock and John McCain," in that order, for the night's mainstage event at the Buffalo Chip campground. The McCain campaign folks back at the Virginia HQ must have been pulling their very human hair, but what does a war hero care about third billing? I am at the event. I am choking on nitro, mown hay, chopper dust and pot. Police dogs are sweeping the crowd. The mainstage announcer says bikers have to move
Posted by: boomboom 06-Aug-2008 10:06 Source: [A] huffingtonpost.com Type: Media Category: Elections 2008
Crooks and Liars » Rachel Maddow on McCain’s new PR strategy: Ride Ki
OLBERMANN:? Also, maybe a somewhat serious point contained in all this malarkey; on stage at Sturgis, he referred to the—preferring the roar of the 50,000 Harleys to 200,000 Germans cheering in Berlin.? But in doing that, did he not underscore the fact that those 200,000 Germans in Berlin actually showed up to hear Barack Obama speak, but the 50,000 bikers on the roar of their Harleys, they had shown up at Sturgis not to see John McCain, but to see Kid Rock, Kelly Pickler and a bunch of female wrestlers and other women not wearing tops?? MADDOW:? This is a critical and basic difference between the John McCain campaign for president and the Barack Obama campaign.? Barack Obama creates large crowds when he gives speeches.? John McCain‘s campaign has just figured out to find out where the
Posted by: twoshot 07-Aug-2008 04:05 Source: [A] crooksandliars.com Type: Blog Category: Elections 2008