“Loose Lips Sink Ships” was an American propaganda poster during World War II which morphed into an American idiom warning about unguarded or careless talk. Campaign workers for U.S. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn ought to start wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan after embarrassing and cynical revelations were leaked in a consultant’s campaign document on what the Democrat should say,who she should mislead and who she should pitch for money in order to win the general election against her Republican opponent.
NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd says the memo makes Nunn look like “everybody’s worst stereotype of what a politician looks like. I think it’s a very bad hit on her. It’s already an uphill battle to run as a Democrat in Georgia.”
The explosive 144-page document penned by her consultant, apparently mistakenly uploaded to the Internet by someone on Nunn’s staff before beingquickly removed, tells her how to handle criticism of her Points of Light Foundation (including the issue ofmoney flowing through her non-profit to Muslims described by the memo’s author as “terrorists”). It further advises on how to address her weaknesses inspeeches and with the media, who she should target for fund-raising and what minority groups should be“appealed to.” (The consultant optimistically hopes for 30 percent of the white vote).
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