Party Crashers and House Parties

In the good old days, political parties used to observe a few days of relative silence when the opposition was having its convention. No longer. As part of the inexorable decline in public and political civility, partisan operatives must operate around the clock. Details in this New York Times story.

The McCain camp has its people in Denver seeking to distract the Dems and get some free media. They are running ads capitalizing on the Hillary holdouts, and McCain himself is widely visible, dropping in on Jay Leno last night.

McCain is to working hard to recover from his housing howler, when he needed staff research to detail his domiciles. As he did earlier when challenged on aspects of his health plan and even his taste in music, he reached for the POW shield, hoping mention of his Vietnam sacrifices would put an end to tough questions. It was reminiscent of the Carnac act performed by Leno's Tonight Show predecessor, Johnny Carson. The Great Carnac would divine the answer before a question was asked. In McCain's case, the answer is always, "POW".

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