•GA-Sen: If you're planning to run for office ten years from now, be very, very, very careful about what you say in your next deposition, because it'll probably come back to haunt you. Learning that the hard way is Republican David Perdue. Back in 2005, in the wake of his short stint as the CEO of Pillowtex (probably long before the idea of running for Senate was a twinkle in his eye) Perdue said, "Yeah, I spent most of my career doing that," where the "that" was OUTSOURCING.
There's a difference between a mundane gaffe that just sounds like you're having a bad day, and the kind of gaffe that just reinforces the negative perceptions that your opponents are already lobbing at you. Democratic rival Michelle Nunn and her allies have already been working hard to portray Perdue as a heartless vulture capitalist, running spots like this one accusing Perdue of getting rich off of other people's misery. If Perdue's newly unearthed moment of candor about outsourcing doesn't find its way into a Democratic ad or two by Tuesday, I'll be shocked. Laura Clawson has more on the debacle.