Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Wisconsin Department of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb is just the latest Republican official - - from George Bush-to-Dick Cheney-to-Donald Rumsfeld-to-Scott Fitzgerald-to-Scott Walker - - to adhere to the party's first principle: no apologies, no backing down, regardless of how badly you've screwed up or how flat-out wrong you are.
Gottlieb endorsed his party's love affair with "no" defending Steven Krieser, a former DMV manager recently elevated to senior management, who had told line workers
in writing to withhold from citizen customers applying for the new state voter ID that the ID is free, reports the Capital Times, the paper that found Krieser's Don't-Tell-Unless-They-Ask written directive last week.
To jam himself into the requisite Republican negative template, however, Gottleib's tied himself in nots with the rare quintuple negative. Few have jumped through that many hoops to validate something so loopy:
"Lipstick On A Pig" Author Was McCain Flack Who Defended Him Against Gorilla Rape Joke Charge
Oh, the layers upon layers of irony...
The McCain campaign may be decrying Obama's use of the "lipstick on a pig" line, but it turns out that a woman who wrote a book called Lipstick on a Pig actually worked as a flack for none other than McCain.
Even better, that same flack, who worked for McCain on his 1986 Senate race, defended McCain against charges that he'd told a now-infamous joke about a woman who was raped by a gorilla, and enjoyed it.
Torie Clarke, who is better known as a one-time spokesperson for Donald Rumsfeld, Lipstick on a Pig, a book about political flacking, in 2006.
During McCain's 1986 Senate race, McCain was hit with allegations from women's groups in Arizona that he'd told this knee-slapper (as quoted at the time by the Tucson Citizen)...
"Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'"
McCain was defended at the time by none other than the future author of Lipstick on a Pig. Also from the Tucson Citizen in 1986:
DNC 08: A Look at Obama's Foreign Policy Team
Yes, we know the Republicans are having their convention, and we're watching it with great interest. It's reminding us of how much more positive and inclusive our OWN convention was last week.
We still have a LOT of material from Denver that we've yet to share with you. So we hope you'll allow us to bask a little longer in the DNC's light. We think it will be a nice counterpoint to the bile we're hearing out of St. Paul.
John McCain's supporters have argued vociferously that Barack Obama has too little foreign policy experience to be an effective President in an increasingly dangerous world. (At least, that was their argument before McCain announced Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate).
Donald Rumsfeld
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