I think these surrogates for the candidates need to just read the exact same prepared statement and not have any opinion of their own if one slip-up forces them out.
Last week, the McCain campaign stumbled when Gramm said the country was in a "mental recession" and had become "a nation of whiners" — sentiments McCain rejected.
Gramm, a former U.S. senator from Texas, issued a statement late Friday saying he was stepping down as co-chair of the McCain campaign "to end this distraction and get on with the real debate."
The problem is that he should have said that some people in this nation whine too much or hedge his bets with a "some Americans are feeling pain" type of thing.
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