Republicans are on damage control about the Paris video

[cbc5g]

Now saying that "Paris supports drilling!"


As if trying to latch onto Paris is a winning strategy for them.

[Zynx]

1. Interrupting your opponent when they are making a mistake is bad manners.

[GoesTo11]

2. So that means they agree with the rest of the ad, right?

[Youphemism]

3. Paris was big on drilling long before McCain was. There's video to prove it. /nt

[Renew Deal]

4. lol

:rofl:

[cliffordu]

5. ROFL!

[Beregond2]

6. Ha!

Thanks for the best laugh I've had in a week.

[cbc5g]

7. Nice! lol

[mzmolly]

8. I believe she also won Ms. Buffalo Chip ?

:P

[IndependentDem]

9. That's Hot! .... and since she did it with the lights off, she was conserving energy. n/t

[Zynx]

23. You are terrible.

lol

[NatBurner]

26. dude...

lol

[Chloroplast]

10. LOL!

[Hippo_Tron]

11. Somebody get JeffR in here ASAP

:rofl: :rofl:

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. LOL........ plenty of those on the internet

I don't think she was an expert from what I saw.

[Occam Bandage]

21. CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF THE INTERNET.

PRESS ANY KEY TO START OVER.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. Republicans are all shit. Every one of them.

[Chloroplast]

13. Hopefully, this can work in Obama's favor.

The media has been tip-toeing around McCain's inconsistencies and no one's wanted to take the first shot. Paris has now done that for them. Hopefully, the blinders will come off.

[madeline_con]

14. Fucking incredible!

[SeattleGirl]

16. They're pissed because the wrinkly old white man got hit by a girl!

:rofl:

[writes3000]

17. GOTTA READ: Analysis from Talk Left

"To pile on Matt's post below, it appears McCain made a major miscalculation with his celebrity attack ad. Hilton's response is now the top story on Google News, and apparently the McCain campaign is receiving so many media requests about it, that they had to post a from response on their website. They have gotten into a spat with Paris Hilton, which there is basically no way to win. Hilton has nothing to lose, and the back and forth just highlights the frivolic idiocy of McCain's recent attacks.

It feels really weird to say it, but Paris Hilton kind of feels like Gandalf returning to Middle Earth, "at the turn of the tide." Her age-based attacks on McCain are even in line with Obama's new ad that opens with a line that could be interpreted as a shot at McCain's age. McCain is going to be on the defensive now, even though he started the attack in the first place. Obama's "proud to be ignorant" line is getting a lot of play, too.

Paris Hilton is playing a not insignificant role in the presidential election. Who'd have thunk it? Man, politics is weird."

http://www.openleft.com

[Alter Ego]

24. Paris Hilton as Gandalf?

"I like, come back to you now, at the turn of the tide or something. That's hot."

My brain just broke.

And now Obama has a perfect opportunity to say "I'm out here laying out a comprehensive energy plan to get us off the foreign oil crackpipe--and my opponent is fighting with Paris Hilton."

[NewJeffCT]

28. If there was a comparison I could never ever imagine in my wildest dreams

It was comparing Gandalf to Paris Hilton.

"I smote his ruin on the mountainside!"

"Like, I so totally had my bodyguard kick that guy's ass!"

[CitizenPatriot]

18. politico

some idiot at politico said that even paris supported mccain's energy policy....forgetting that even paris remembered to say drilling "with strict environmental oversight" and the rest of it seemed like obama's policy as well...

Paris put him a very baaad spot; what can he say? and now he is the one equated with her vacuous celebrity, not Obama. Oh, man. Karma!!!

They better not keep claiming her support-- she hasn't had this kind of publicity in a while and she'll just keep riding it out now that it's worked out so well. Loooooser mcbush:-) Make my day!!!

[EC]

19. So, McCain is more like Paris Hilton

on policy manners? Just last week he was trying to make the point that Obama was like Paris, so which is it?

[ellacott]

27. Since she agrees with his plan maybe she could be his running mate

He'd have the youth and women vote wrapped up.

[NewJeffCT]

29. she's too young

You have to be qualified to be president to get the VP nod, which means she'd have to be 35 years old.

[ellacott]

30. True, I forgot about that

[TlalocW]

20. There's only one thing McCain can do

Trot out GOP supporter and porn star, Mary Carey, to respond to Paris.

TlalocW

[Occam Bandage]

22. McCain, two days ago: "Obama is just like Paris!"

McCain, now: "We're just like Paris!"

[DFW]

25. If they take that part seriously, then they also have to rename their candidate:

Straight-talkin' "Wrinkly White-haired Guy."