Meet the Gaffe Warriors of the Democratic Party

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Meet the Gaffe Warriors of the Democratic Party

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In a warehouse-like second-floor office about 15 miles away from where Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was lighting up the crowd at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, a group of political operatives monitored the speech on their computers. Then, in response to a question from an audience member, Walker delivered the kind of sentence they'd been waiting for.

“Did he just liken…” one started to ask slowly.