A gaffe about his opponent's race, allegations that he is the backseat driver from hell and, most recently, an indelible photograph of him in the middle of a wild party of teenagers — is Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler having the worst run...
There's an episode of The West Wing where President Bartlett pretends to make an off - guard comment in front of a rolling camera after a TV interview was over — he made disparaging remarks
about his main
opponent's intelligence, which everyone assumed was a
gaffe, but he actually did it on purpose because it got everyone talking
about whether his
opponent was in fact stupid.