A week after TV analysts and bloggers began discussing Democratic strategist Bob Shrum's new book, Boston Globe columnist Scot Lehigh has put Shrum in his sights.
Lehigh sums up his impressions of Shrum's book as,
not a kiss and tell, exactly. Let's call it a bill and quill.
Making a name for himself in 1976 after storming out of the Carter administration to the New York Times, Shrum has grown to be viewed as a curse to a campaign, a reputation that will likely be even harder to buck now. Speaking of Shrum prior to the 2004 election:
hiring him is, or was, akin to bringing Iago aboard; campaign discord almost inevitably followed, with rivals undermined or elbowed aside.
Perhaps his greatest blunder, one that Lehigh says Shrum accounts for in the book, was Shrum's incompetence dealing with the Swift Boat attack in the '04 Kerry campaign. Shrum doesn't come out scot free, Lehigh says readers can easily come away from the book with Shrum as the Kerry mastermind, foiled by his own faults
With Shrum's reputation seemingly discredited and Hillary's biographers in hot water, where can a man (or woman) get some good dirt around here?