Bob Shrum is writing a memoir about the “work” he’s done for the Kerry and Gore campaigns. I’d like to hear your suggestions for the title.
I’ll start: “Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory: How I Made The Democratic Party An Electoral Anomaly”
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November 17th, 2005
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“Majority Party No More, Thanks to Me”
“How to Be Beaten Repeatedly By Idiots”
“Never Give A Sucker an Even Break — As Told by the Sucker”
“Loser”
“Utter and Abject Loser”
“Such a Loser It Is Contagious But, Sadly, Not Fatal”
“Political Consultancy for Dummies — by Dummies”
“George W Bush Outsmarted Me At Least Twice”
“Waaah! It’s Not Fair!” (co-writer, Jilted John)
“I Aspire To Be Pathetic”
“Why didn’t Clinton Lean On Me So He Could Have Lost, Too?”
“Listen To Me Democrats: Don’t Listen To Me”
“Living For Decades off of One Speech for Teddy”
“Mr. Also-Ran”
“Winning Presidential Campaigns: A Fantasy”
“The Drubbing”
“Handbook Of Political Paraphilias”
“Enjoying Getting Your Ass Handed To You”
LOL. Great stuff.
“Don’t Blame Me — I Voted For Bush”
“There’s Nowhere to Go But Up”
“Even Lee Atwater Won One: Why Not Me?”
“An Open Letter to George Soros: How Much will you Pay Me to Switch Sides?”
“It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time”
“My Connection with Voters: An Unsolved Mystery”
“Breaking the Streak: What I Wish I had in Common with the Red Sox and White Sox”
“Will Blow a 15 Point Lead in the Polls for Food”
Shrum was a disaster. Who hires a guy who lost like 8 straight campaigns? If the Democrats are smart, Bob should never be hired again.
“The Mole — Karl Rove’s Secret Operative in the Gore and Kerry Campaigns”
“Are you kidding, we’re losing to who??”
“Liberals!…We Lose Most Elections but Dammit, We’re Still in the Mainstream”
“Lose This Book”
“From Mars to Massachusetts: Quatto’s Story”
“Yeah, But I Look Good On Paper!”