Sometimes you just can’t believe your eyes. Read this sentence from today’s Politics Nation (“Blumenthal Camp: Vietnam Issue Behind Us”) and then ask yourself if you or the “ Democratic strategist” is the crazy one:

“This [how Richard Blumenthal handled his Vietnam whopper-gate crisis] ended up being a textbook case in crisis management,” said a Democratic strategist who was involved in the effort.

Of course, the strategist gets the Blumenthal Badge of Bravery for having the courage to withhold his name. Gutsy. But what about that “textbook case of crisis management?” What does a textbook case consist of exactly?

Well, first you trot out the human shields at your press conference, in this case a passel of the very veterans you’ve offended by that harmless, oft-told tall-tale about your combat days in Nam. Next, you work in the “take full responsibility” line. That’s merely apology code for “Hey, I’m holding this embarrassing press conference—that’s responsibility enough. Now will you all just leave me alone?” Third, you never really say you’re sorry—because that would be an admission of guilt, and guilt is campaign kryptonite. (more…)

Did we just hear Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal try to blame local journalists for his ‘misspoken’ words about his Vietnam war record? When Blumenthal was asked at Tuesday’s press conference why he didn’t correct published accounts of his Vietnam service, he said:

There were a few articles, not many. I am responsible for my own statements….I can’t be responsible for all the articles, I may not even have seen them. ….sometimes journalists do make mistakes.

Cr: Chion Wolf

Really?  Sure, journalists get quotes and background wrong from time to time but civil servants, who are in the public eye like Blumenthal, often call right away to demand a correction. In fact, that’s just what our A.G.’s press staff usually did with me – even when I wrote the quotes exactlyas he said them during phone interviews. Case in point: (more…)

No matter what you think of J.D. Hayworth — former Congressman, talk-show host, anti-illegal immigration hardliner and Abramoff-scarred beneficiary — one thing you’ve got to like about him is that he is mounting a primary challenge to Sen. John McCain (R, Media) in Arizona.

That would be the head RINO-in-chief and First Amendment enemy — RIP, McCain/Feingold! — who threw the election to Barack Obama in 2008 by taking everything that was interesting and/or objectionable about the former Barry Soetoro — his past, his associates, even his name — off the table and thus gave himself exactly zero chance to win. Contrary to the lefty media spin that Sarah Palin cost McCain the election, she was the only thing that stood between him and an historic, McGovern/Mondale-style wipeout.

It was as if he wanted to lose, or something.

In an electoral season that’s already shaping up to be a graveyard for incumbents — so long Evan Bayh! — will McCain be the next to go?

Or, in the return of a nightmare scenario for Republicans, will he finally cross the aisle one last time, rejoin his former buddies in the media, and give the Democrats back their 60-vote majority?  (Hey — stranger things have happened.)

What do you think?