We're Lapping This Stuff Up

By Baxter

Bad day in Cootchy World. And the Republicans must have known that at least some of this was coming, because why else would they have let slip the Rich Galen news as Yom Kippur began?

(This is what Rachel Maddow calls "the Friday night news dump." As she did again last night. She just didn't go on to specify which Friday it was.)

In the meantime, the whispers about Ken Cuccinelli's flimsy campaign, his anemic fundraising and his awkward handling of his own Jonnie Williams gift scandal have become a roar — and not a dull one, either. This makes us cats PURR, especially about the fundraising. We've felt for awhile now that too little attention had been paid to Cootchy's lackluster performance in that arena, partly because it was masked by big contributions from the Republican Governors Association.

The other funny thing is the report that the Cootch Campaign is thinking of running 30-minute ads this fall. This is hilarious. Aside from Cuccinelli's true believers, who is going to watch that crap? You don't air ads that length to try to change the trajectory of a race. You do it to seal the deal when you're already ahead. Just ask Barack Obama.

We can't help asking if all these deficiencies in fundraising, strategy and organization might not have emerged earlier if the Forces of Cootch had allowed themselves to be nominated in a democratic fashion — a primary, not a teabagger-rigged party convention. Ah, well. You know what they say about spilled milk.

P.S. One more note on Rich Galen leaving Transvaginal Bob McDonnell's defense team: He's protesting mightily that nothing is wrong — he was going to depart around Labor Day anyway. Which means that everything is fine, right? No more revelations, no indictments?

Hm. McDonnell and his greedy, grasping cheerleader wife will be meeting with prosecutors again next week. If we take Galen at his word — which we're not saying we are — we hope that any more adverse developments will be treated like the bombshells they'll be.