Tim Kaine

The man behind some of the most “reprehensible” — in the words of John McCain — GOP attack ads in recent memory is getting involved in Michigan’s gubernatorial race. According to campaign finance reports, Scott Howell and Company, whose partners were involved with infamous campaigns ads attacking Max Cleland and Harold Ford, has been hired as a media consultant by Oakland County Sheriff and GOP candidate for governor Mike Bouchard.

That’s the sound of the veepstakes clown car; every few seconds, some fresh clown steps out, unfolding and setting the crowd to clapping and chattering, and all the while the car horn sounds, “Veep, veep!”

The spinmeisters are at it again. The mainstream media is in a virtual tizzy over rumors Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is going to announce his vice presidential choice tomorrow.

Despite speculation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will name Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh as his vice presidential nominee on Wednesday, when Michigan Messenger asked a highly placed source in the Obama campaign about the possibility, the source was visibly surprised about the information. “I don’t know anything about that,” the source said. “I have not [...]