August 04, 2008 09:49 PM UTC

DSCC Slams Wadhams for "Macaca Meltdown"

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• by: RedGreen

Noting that Aug. 11 is the two-year anniversary of Sen. George Allen’s famous “macaca moment,” when the Virginia Republican changed overnight from “a presidential frontrunner to a national laughingstock,” the DSCC’s Matthew Miller today called out Allen frontman Dick Wadhams for another vulgar outburst, this time on behalf of his candidate Bob Schaffer.

Long-suffering Colorado Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer suffered another setback Saturday when his campaign manager Dick Wadhams … suffered his own “macaca meltdown,” telling Lynn Bartels of the Rocky Mountain News, “We’re going to shove a bunch of 30-second ads up his a** on this issue over the course of the campaign.” [meltdown emphasis added]

The DSCC broadside continues:

Wadhams’ bizarre, vulgar outburst came in response to Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall voting against a Congressional adjournment – as he had pledged to do, and, oddly, how Schaffer himself had urged.  There was no immediate response from the many conservative organizations with ties to Schaffer who have long decried a breakdown in the country’s morality.

“Poor Bob Schaffer just can’t stop sabotaging his own campaign.  First he gets involved in a series of scandals, and now his campaign manager is having his own ‘macaca meltdown,'” said DSCC spokesman Matthew Miller.  “We know this is a difficult time for Wadhams.  August 11 is the two-year anniversary of George Allen’s Macaca moment, and the memory alone must be causing Dick to break out in hives.  We can only assume that Bob Schaffer’s friends on the far right will be disappointed with his campaign’s sleazy comments.  This sort of obscenity has no place in a campaign that should be about the issues.”