Republican Governors Mark Sanford and Sarah Palin (abetted by her attorney) have made quite a spectacle of themselves over the past week, putting on a stunning display of poor crisis management. A post from Doug Fisher’s blog, “Common Sense Journalism,” sums it up beautifully.
Who exactly is advising these folks? Have the Republicans opened a whole new PR agency, Bumble, Fumble and Stumble LLC? First rule of “crisis” management — and this is a form of crisis — don’t give anyone an opening to keep talking about the stuff you don’t want them to keep talking about.
Between Sanford’s drawn out lies and ensuing revelations, and Palin’s refusal to duck gracefully out of the public eye, these stories will likely fuel the media for quite a while.
JB
Jonathan Bernstein
www.bernsteincrisismanagement.com