As any good political operative will tell you, their role in a campaign is to make their candidate as famous as possible while themselves remaining, if not anonymous, at least thoroughly obscure. But late yesterday afternoon, Gretchen patched through Eric Fehmstrom, a gentleman who works for the Mitt Romney campaign, and, as many readers of this Web log are no doubt aware, a man who has lately managed to obtain a very significant degree of public notoriety himself. Fehmstrom: Hello, Tom Collins? Tom: At your service, sir. How can I help you? Fehmstrom: It’s this Etch-A-Sketch thing. Tom: You mean, the incident earlier this week when you appeared on the CNN morning news and told John Fugelsang that,”You hit a [...]
The Etchy, Sketchy Heart of Romney’s Worst Problem
As any good political operative will tell you, their role in a campaign is to make their candidate as famous as possible while themselves remaining, if not anonymous, at least thoroughly obscure. But late yesterday afternoon, Gretchen patched through Eric Fehmstrom, a gentleman who works for the Mitt Romney campaign, and, as many readers of this Web log are no doubt aware, a man who has lately managed to obtain a very significant degree of public notoriety himself. Fehmstrom: Hello, Tom Collins? Tom: At your service, sir. How can I help you? Fehmstrom: It’s this Etch-A-Sketch thing. Tom: You mean, the incident earlier this week when you appeared on the CNN morning news and told John Fugelsang that,”You hit a [...]