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DEL.ICIO.USBehind a vice-presidential rumor
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In the end, the Georgia feint toward Mitt Romney didn’t cost John McCain a dime.
The calls started flying first thing Thursday morning. A Georgia printer had received an order for 10,000 bumper-stickers to be shipped immediately to Minnesota, with the message “McCain-Romney.”
Now, here’s the tricky part. The McCain campaign obviously wanted the word out. Yet political printers operate under a code of silence. No candidate wants an opponent to find out how many yard signs he’s just ordered.
But Republicans talk, as Democrats do. So word leaked, and the GOP rumor mill churned through the day, as was intended.
The McCain campaign, we’re told, canceled the order last night. No money ever changed hands, and the bumper-stickers were never printed. But if they had been, the cost would have — say, at 18 cents per — amounted under $2,000 plus shipping.
That’s not too high a price for keeping the lid on your real vice presidential choice.
Comments
By SweetPea
August 29, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
10,000 bumper stickers for $200??? Can we please have the name of this printer?
By ColumbusConnie
August 30, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
I heard it different from me cousin Jed over in lower Alabamee