When Wes Clark made his comment about John McCain, it was treated by Republicans and the McCain campaign as if it was the worst political attack of the century. The McCain campaign issued 16 press releases in 1 day to display their outrage over Clark's comments. It was decided that Wes Clark, who supported Hillary Clinton until 3 weeks prior and had no role on the Obama campaign, was part of an orchestrated effort to devalue John McCain's military record. That's some pretty serious surrogate bashing. They probably should've known the fake outrage bonanza would come back to bite them in the ass.

Now, Phil Gramm made his "nation of whiners" comments and suddenly surrogates are insignificant, even when that surrogate happens to be one of the, if not the biggest, economic advisors on the campaign and a campaign co-chair and the man who John McCain is good friends with and endorsed in the 1996 election primary. But all of that doesn't matter according to the McCain campaign. McCain came out later in the day and said that he speaks for himself, not his surrogates. Never mind the fact that McCain sends surrogates out to speak for him all the time just like all candidates do. Of course, that bullshit wasn't enough. Today, Carly Fiorina went even further in dismissing the role of surrogates, completely reversing everything the McCain campaign had said about Wes Clark and even going against exactly what Fiorina said previously.

From the AP: "'Outside of Washington, where this is an interesting parlor game, I think most Americans are not really focused on what a bunch of surrogates are saying,' Fiorina said on 'Meet the Press' on NBC. 'They're focused on what the candidates are saying.'

Last March, Fiorina sounded more upbeat about people representing the campaign. While discussing her new role with McCain, she told the Web site Pajamas Media, 'I think they're going to see us expand our surrogate program in some interesting ways.'"

So is the McCain campaign going to apologize for flip-flopping on the importance of surrogate statements, especially surrogates who aren't even members of the campaign? Don't hold your breath. When Obama said we've entered silly season, someone should've asked him if silly season ever ends. It still amazes me that flip flops are being made an issue in this campaign given that neither side has any ground to stand on on the issue. Somehow McCain is getting the upper hand because his litany of changes are not being covered as the media's present narrative is "Obama moving to the center."