Fallen political strategist Mark Penn pens the obvious.
...consulting!
There's a sucker born every minute.
And Mr. Penn might happily concede that many of those suckers sit on corporate boards greenlighting his outrageous "consulting" fees.
Hillary Clinton is $20 million in debt. And we'll guesstimate that she (and other pro-Clinton organizations) have probably spent close to a quarter billion dollars on her behalf.
It's all fairly disgusting.
But where did the money go?
Well, we certainly know of one place where huge chunks of good money continued to chase after huge chunks of bad.
That's the rumor making its way around to some of the little birdies we talk to.
If that's true...
Uh...
Ouch?!!??
James Carville doesn't think that Mr. Garvin is (or would allow himself to be).
But we're not so sure.
Why is Mark Penn still hanging around the Clinton campaign office?
It speaks volumes. About a lot of things.
Not surprising.
Most likely too little too late.
We believe the title of our post is a fairly accurate translation of this.
Snark.
Noted: We nearly flunked out of Spanish in high school. Twice. So to our Spanish speaking readership - please go easy on our attempt at a joke in your (Colombian slang) native tongue.
This. Is. Awesome. For. Team. Clinton.
Not.
But we guarantee that it stomps all over Clinton's MLK message today.
Senator Clinton is fast approaching that point in time (already passed?) where by not firing Mark Penn she looks like a wimp.
Yeah, we said it, a wimp.
Not a boss who has loyalty to her staff or refuses to get flustered by the "small stuff".
A wimp.
Penn is poison, nowhere near as smart as he thinks that he is, and should be long gone by this time tomorrow.
We're just saying.
If Hillary Clinton ends up winning Ohio and Texas tonight and regains her momentum, does Mark Penn, Mr. No Direct Authority, take Hillary back?
At least until a few news cycles before Pennsylvania?
Snark.
The Los Angles Times has the story.
Marc Ambinder has the commentary.
We guess that being a campaign's chief strategist just isn't what it used to be.
Snark.
Campaign 101 states that if you're responding and explaining, you're losing.
And with quotes like these...
“I always tell people—win and we all win. Lose and we all lose,” he said. “I believe she can win, and she would by far be the best candidate in the general election for the Democrats. So I appreciate people are trying to write their story lines in advance—mostly out of their own self-interest. If we lose, I will take my share of the responsibility. I have won about 70 major elections around the world, including many presidents, and I devised the simple message for Tony Blair in his last successful campaign: ‘Forward, Not Back.’Mr. Penn must be losing.
“In the last 30 years there have been only three successful Democratic presidential campaigns, and I am pleased to have done one of them. Anyone who knows me knows I will keep fighting for what I believe in.”
Not mind blowing. Just revolting.
Clinton chief strategist Mark Penn is a $4.3 million dollar man.
$4.3 MILLION.
Those are some expensive memos. That have been worth just a notch north of a bucket of spit so far.
And here we thought that most Democrats read Rolling Stone Magazine? Like this article from last March?
Guess not.
Snark.
Politics ain't beanbag.
And Clinton chief strategist Mark Penn currently finds himself on the receiving end of some serious incoming.
But only an idiot would count out Penn, or Clinton, at this stage of the game.
