RK ARCHIVE - Jim Gilmore: Most Incompetent Campaign Ever?

Jim Gilmore: Most Incompetent Campaign Ever?

By: Lowell
Published On: 9/19/2008 4:52:34 PM

John McCain may get the award for the most untruthful/lying campaign ever, but Jim Gilmore definitely gets the "most incompetent" award. Check this out:

It's generally not too difficult to get on a campaign's press list - even if you're working for a rival campaign. And you certainly don't need to misrepresent yourself in order to get your opponent's press releases.
But that's exactly what Jim Gilmore's communications director Ana Gamonal did in a ham-handed attempt to get on Mark Warner's campaign e-mail list. She sent an e-mail to a Warner spokeswoman from a personal account posing as a Spanish-language freelance writer under the pseudonym "Alexis Navarro."
Making matters worse - and more embarrassing - is that her real name is plainly listed alongside her personal e-mail address.

And the Gilmore campaign rolls along its merry path to obliteration in a few weeks...

Comments

It's sweet that they're trying. (Silence Dogood - 9/19/2008 5:11:00 PM)

I'm starting to feel about this campaign the same way I felt about the Jamaican Bobsled Team in Cool Runnings--I'm going to keep chanting USA! USA! but it's impossible not to root for the loveable losers as they come limping across the finish line, broken sled in tow.

What I see with Gilmore's campaign is (Jim White - 9/19/2008 6:22:49 PM)

a 3/4 empty bus of Republicans driving full speed into a ravine. No sympathy here...sorry about that.

But did they pay "car tax" on that bus? (Lowell - 9/19/2008 8:35:02 PM)

What?!? (HisRoc - 9/19/2008 6:32:42 PM)

Gilmore has a communications director? Coulda fooled me.

On Gilmore's campaign, it's known as (Lowell - 9/19/2008 8:33:57 PM)

the "miscommunications director." :)

I heard she admitted the scam and was suspended (Used2Bneutral - 9/19/2008 10:34:09 PM)

On WTOP earlier (I heard it at 8 PM) tonight they said she did this on her own and was then suspended for two weeks.... supposedly the Gilmore campaign apologized and the Warner campaign accepted.