What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Big Pink Inc., still smarting from that unfortunate Planned Parenthood rock-turning incident that exposed the wingnut creepy-crawlies running the joint, the inflated executive salaries, the breathtakingly large portion of donations funneled toward corporate whoring, etc., has hired Mark Penn’s flak organization to gauge PR fallout and presumably craft a communications strategy to repair the damage. Here’s a sample survey question:

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Penn, as you may recall, was the genius behind the twin ”caucuses, what caucuses?” and “hard-working white Americans” strategies in the Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign that nearly destroyed the Clinton brand and almost certainly cost the current Secretary of State the nomination while leaving her campaign on the hook for millions of dollars. Penn has since gone on to be wrong about just about everything else, making a serious play for Bill Kristol’s all-time wrong record. So he’ll no doubt be a terrific asset to the Komen peeps.

[X-POSTED at Balloon Juice; H/T: Rumproast commenter MikeJ]

Posted by Betty Cracker on 02/24/12 at 08:41 AM • Permalink

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Penn, Schoen & Berland: Believing Our Own Push Polls Since 1995.

Oh man, this is just going to get even more awesome. The Wonder Twins of Fail will ride again!

The major appeal of Penn and his sidekick, Fox News’s Doug Schoen (most notable nowadays for his repeated calls for President Obama to stand aside in order to reap the undying love of a grateful electorate), to the Clintons seemed to be their loyalty to Bill during the aftermath of the Lewinsky shenanigans. The new Komen corporate slogan may well end up being “Don’t want to get pregnant? Have a cigar.”

Another claim to fame is Penn’s invention of a new demographic class, those swinging “soccer moms” who were drawn to Bill’s appeal and defected from the Republicans in modest droves in 1996. I think he may have lost his touch since then.

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