John Gorenfeld

So far this week, the McCain team, incoherently, has compared its enemies to Marxist Hasselhoff fans and pro-tax MTV Total Request Live divas. Now it’s likening the New York Times editorial board to liberal bloggers who play Dungeons & Dragons. [T]he paper’s editors seem to have all the intelligence and reason of the average Daily [...]

Not too fit. ♦ Clowntime is over. After the Arizona senator spends the week depicting the Illinois senator as eerily reminiscent of Britney Spears and her ideas about electricity taxes, Obama issues a six-page "Emergency Economic Plan" that would actually ding Big Oil to help ordinary people pay their bills—more of a Lindsay Lohan approach. [...]

Alaskans want to know, "Who is the mysterious Vic Vickers?" The mysterious stranger is a Republican lawyer from Florida, who blew into their state not so long ago, and is now sowing confusion with TV ads on which he’s willing to spend as much as $75K to steal the GOP nomination from crooked longtime senator [...]

Hollywood loved John McCain in 2000, before he decided fame was ephemeral, and fleeting, and he wouldn’t want to have a stupid crowd of 200,000 Germans chanting his name, anyway: [O]nly eight years ago, McCain was a fixture in Hollywood fundraising circles when he tried to raise money from the very people his ad now [...]

Candidate David Duke (above) was accused, in his day, of "playing the race card." John McCain told CNN Thursday it is fair for his campaign manager to claim Barack Obama is playing ‘the race card.’ In a world in which "playing the race card" has come to be an accusation carrying the same horrific weight [...]

"Is that the best you can come up with?" [ABC News]

Rumor has it, in the world of reluctant McCain supporters, that the comedy troupe responsible for the senator’s 2008 campaign for President of the United States has managed to enrage a billionaire Republican supporter—by running a hamfisted commercial comparing Obama to the granddaughter of the gentleman in question, a woman named Paris Hilton. [T]he phone [...]

♦ Rapper Ludacris joins Gov. Tim Kaine in putting his name in the hat for vice president, in improvised remarks that rip Sen. Clinton for "irrelevance"; is met with rejection. [Some MP3 site, BBC] ♦ Those tacky Britney and Hasselhoff ads are part of a strategy that "diminishes John McCain," laments former McCain strategist. "There [...]

Genius and succinct: This next one, bandied around on Daily Kos yesterday, I didn’t enjoy much. It reminds me of people who think they are being funny by imitating Mr. Rogers. The footage itself is devastating enough on its own, without the smug factor: Today’s Obama ad, "Low Road," sticks it to McCain pretty good: [...]

“On a day when major news organizations across the country are taking Senator McCain to task for a steady stream of false, negative attacks, his campaign has launched yet another. Or, as some might say, ‘Oops! He did it again.’” [ABC] What exactly is the connection between Britney Spears and raising your taxes?