Ethics

More McCain Campaign Follies

By Ed Brayton

Radley Balko caught yet another pre-debate screwup from the McCain campaign. You may remember that before the first McCain/Obama debate, the McCain campaign had already bought an ad with a direct quote from Rick Davis saying "McCain won the debate-- hands down." Looks like they did it again for the vice presidential debate, prematurely putting out an unfinished ad on the Washington Post website that included a direct quote from "Famous Person." Who that famous person was to be was apparently undecided, but they knew that that famous person was going to say:

She killed. It was her evening. She was the star.

Here's the ad:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).