You Can’t Make Crap Smell Like Roses

J.J. Jackson* | February 15, 2008

Filed Under Conservative Musings, Eyes on 2008, Hillary Clinton

I really couldn’t believe this when I read it. Mandy Grunwald, Clinton’s ad writer, apparently hit the nail on the head during a recent blowup during Hillary’s freefall.

MCALLEN, Texas — With Spanish music blaring, Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigned across South Texas yesterday with a more populist message, as her new campaign manager sought to reshape a campaign that has lost eight straight primaries in a week.Maggie Williams, a confidante of Mrs. Clinton from when she was first lady, has moved to assert her control following the departure last weekend of former campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle. Ms. Williams is running a daily conference on what ads to put up and expanding the inner circle with advisers from the old Clinton White House.

But the campaign has something of a shellshocked feel, as staffers privately chew over a blowup last week where internal frictions flared into the open. Clinton campaign operatives say it happened as top Clinton advisers gathered in Arlington, Va., campaign headquarters to preview a TV commercial. “Your ad doesn’t work,” strategist Mark Penn yelled at ad-maker Mandy Grunwald. “The execution is all wrong,” he said, according to the operatives.

“Oh, it’s always the ad, never the message,” Ms. Grunwald fired back, say the operatives. The clash got so heated that political director Guy Cecil left the room, saying, “I’m out of here.”

Gee, yah think? Having worked in advertising (briefly) and as someone that runs my own business I can tell you that making a steaming pile of crap smell like roses is nigh impossible. You either have a good product or you don’t. Thank goodness I have a good product .

But I’ve been pointing this out for years. The message of the socialist, we’re going to take away your liberty, left is nothing more than a turd that some are still attempting to make into a beautiful bouquet. Ain’t going to happen.

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