USC Fake Republicans in the News: CNN ran an interview with a man named Eric Perlmutter who claimed that he was part of University’s College Republicans organization. He claimed:
“We try to get people out to our college Republican meetings, but … we can’t seem to draw the same kind of vocal support.”
It seems that CNN was punked. The real College Republicans said they’d never heard of him and CNN issued a correction. There’s an Eric Perlmutter listed in IMDB as a composer, but who knows if he’s the same guy. (The USC GOP has been contacted for comment, but has not yet returned our emails.)
Getting out the Republican Vote, the Sequel: Faced with a candidate in John McCain that most diehard Repubs are swallowing like a bitter pill, the right-wing activists in the party are hoping to galvanize voters via key ballot initiatives in swing states. Tearing a page from the 2004 Bush election, the LA Times notes that the right is hoping that ballot initiatives such as the anti-gay marriage initiatives in California, and others like it in Arizona and Florida will draw the right-wing voters to the polls in droves. Though the furor over gay marriage seems to have subsided, and is unlikely to make a huge dent in a state like California, in less blue states, such a strategy might tip the scales.
I spent $482 billion and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. Besides a bad taste, a bad war, and a bad reputation, Bush leaves the next president with a gargantuan mess. Thanks, don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out!
McCain’s skin in the news again: The Senator—who was diagnosed with skin cancer in 1993— underwent another biopsy recently, which he described as a routine check-up. At least we don’t have a candidate for the Presidency getting Botox.
