GOP issues rules to avoid Macaca moments ( I guess Romney hasn't read it)

[CGowen]

The Macaca moment has morphed into an official learning tool for the Republican establishment.

It's right there, on pages 18 and 22 of an Internet guide from the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee that its chairman, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), hopes will become scripture for the 2008 candidates.

Always assume you're being recorded, and always record your opponent. The blogs -- oh, scratch that -- the Republican blogs are your friends, so use them for rapid response in good times and bad.

"The paradigmatic example of failure to do so is the 'macaca' moment," reads the guidebook www.politico.com/pdf/PPM44_nrscexcerpts.pdf(excerpted here), referring to a remark last year by former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) that was captured on video and sunk his reelection campaign.

And btw, the mainstream media are so, uh, 2006. The first stop for press secretaries, according to the guidebook, should be bloggers who can create "buzz" and inevitably trigger stories in the drippy MSM.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0607/4483.html

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1. OH Yeah! And don't admit you strapped your dog to the roof for 10+ hrs of

terrorific 65mph heartless asshole sort of fun...

[CGowen]

2. I didn't think people would do that

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3. What's that white thing around the poor thing's head? The bandage from where he fell off before?nt

[CGowen]

5. just a sculpture

http://www.subaltern.org/mag-sp05.htm

'THE RISING DOG' - A TOUR TROUGH EUROPE 2003 / 2004
" THE RISING DOG" is a mobile sculpture in the public space. It was made to join in ordinary traffic situations of everyday city-life. A German shepherd dog, standing beside the driver, is riding in a white Mercedes. Suddenly the dog rises through an opening in the car up to the top of the roof. After a little while the dog disappears back in the car. The head of the dog is bandaged. The work appeared usually for one or two weeks unannounced in the streets of a city.

[poverlay]

6. Oh, haha. I may need to get one...nt

[rodeodance]

4. Rule No. 1-------do not do freudian slips.