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Since Chuck DeVore scooped up campaign supergenius Josh Treviño, Carly Fiorina was forced to hire her campaign advisers from the Campaign Consultant Outlet Center, home of the Two-Bob Shrums for the Price Of One weekend specials. This has resulted in, well, her whole laughable campaign. Twitter-twating pictures has not been her friend but surely pointing out that Tom Campbell is flat out giving up because he is close to be on teh welfare is a total win for Carly who is probably figuring out how to outsource her future Senate aide needs to India right this moment.
Unless you read the whole article at the link:
Campbell will not be on TV this coming week. And he has cut his ad buys for the final 2 weeks of the campaign significantly, according to sources who watch campaign ad spending; data shows Campbell has purchased $286K in ads over the last 2 weeks, less than the $393K he had previously reserved.
Instead, Campbell’s campaign will send an oversized mailer to 1.1M voters this week, according to his campaign.
The decision to pull ads off TV means ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina (R) will continue outspending Campbell on the air. Fiorina has spent $2.2M on TV ads, 4 times the amount Campbell has spent, according to data collected by several ad buyers with interests in the race.
But it’s not clear that Fiorina’s TV advantage is going to have much of a difference: Campbell leads every recent public poll. Fiorina has raised much more money than Campbell, and she announced last week she would put an additional $1.1M of her own money in the race. Still, her advertising advantage so far has not helped her make up her polling gap.
And by spending four times what Campbell has spent has led to Carly falling ten points further behind Campbell in two months. This is definitely good news but only for for the Carlyfornia campaign staffers who are pleased to be the recipients of Carly’s largesse when she could just as easily spend her days peeling off twenty dollar bills and flushing them down the toilet in order to achieve the same results.
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As the absentee ballots have already gone out (and mine has already been filled out and submitted), Carly and her doppleganger Megagenius Whitman are running out of time to buy a miracle.
Not that any of this matters, of course. California’s already doomed, anyway, thanks to that steroid-addled doofus currently occupying the Governor’s chair. (Of course, we should also thank Gray Davis and Darryl Issa, without whom the Governator would not have been possible…)
At this rate, Carlyfornia should just spend the rest of her fortune on advertising and trickle her wealth down to the rest of us poor slobs. That would do more for the state than anything she would accomplish as Senator.
I hear she has this great plan to merge California with Arizona…
Of course, we should also thank
Gray Davis and Darryl IssaGeorge W. Bush and his Enron buddies, without whom the Governator would not have been possible…Fixed for accuracy.
Oops. There goes another chunk of that golden parachute.
OT: I’ll leave it to TBogg to check how pageant perv John ‘Assrocket’ Assrocket has reacted to the crowning of Rima Fakih as Miss USA.
Way ahead of you but with a slightly different take
Hopefully Miss Oklahoma will threaten to sue the pageant unless the winner produces a long-form birth certificate.
Carly decided to discontinue that when her Indian plumber informed her that they wouldn’t be able to do anything about that plugged sewage pipe before she needed to take another dump.
she could just as easily spend her days peeling off twenty dollar bills and flushing them down the toilet in order to achieve the same results.
On reading this, Goldman Sachs opened an inquiry into how to corner the commode-ites market.
I actually think that beauty pageants done under strict Sharia law could be one of the great comedic advances of all time.
she could just as easily spend her days peeling off twenty dollar bills and flushing them down the toilet in order to achieve the same results
Actually, I beg to differ. The same results could have been achieved by surreptitiously donating that money to her rival. She probably doesn’t want the job anyway…
Actually, some one has already done it, although I do not remember who, or was it a “fashion show”? Basically, each model came out in a burqa, so you couldn’t tell it was a different person, let alone different attire.
That one wins the internets.