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Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain, was fired from the Arizona senator’s campaign last week for what one aide called ‘trashing’ the campaign staff, three senior McCain advisers tell CNN.
One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining that he had been in direct contact [...]
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So, Sen. McCain is going to hold rallies on election day in New Mexico and Colorado. Tell me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t the McCain camp be more concerned with getting New Mexico and Colorado voters to the polls rather than to a rally to hear the stump speech again? I could be wrong, but [...]
Ouchie.
John McCain’s first rally of the day, in Tampa outside Raymond James Stadium, only drew about 1,100 people. Local reporters noting that at almost the same spot just before the 2004 election, President Bush drew about 15,000 people. Two weeks ago, Obama drew an estimated 8,000.
Republican Gov. Crist, who had previously agreed to do interviews [...]
Why the hell is John McCain in Tennessee today?
John McCain has excluded President Bush from his campaign to a far more extensive degree than Al Gore with Bill Clinton. And yet, the ironic thing is Clinton would have helped Gore win - and Florida wouldn’t have been stolen.
The McCain campaign repeats the success they had vetting Sarah Palin with Joe The Plumber. If there is a metaphor for McCain ‘08, thats it.
Is Cheney’s last-minute endorsement of McCain a way for Bush to give the finger to McCain, who he never has liked? If so, brilliant.
Which candidate can deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies?
Sen. Obama, the ball is in YOUR court.
People forget that the GOP has recently held the advantage when it comes to get out the vote operations. The unprecedented GOTV for John Kerry in 2004 was beaten by one other… George W. Bush. Part of the reason Howard Dean became the DNC chairman was a commitment to a 50-state strategy predicated on maximizing [...]
John McCain seeks to duplicate the chaos of his election effort with his “transition” team.
Let’s see to it that this mess remains a theory.
Tucker Bounds, meet your co-pilot in suck.
Looking for his latest campaign crutch, McCain manages to look more pathetic than usual. They can’t run a campaign, but we should trust them to run the country.
McCain is trying yet again to hit Obama on experience. It hasn’t worked in the general election. It didn’t work for Sen. Clinton in the primaries. Why the heck do they think it will work now?
John McCain is running robocalls… in Arizona.
I’m not, repeat, not declaring victory. But come on.
McCain is seriously cutting down on the ad money they’re spending in Minnesota.
UPDATE: McCain now up on the air… in West Virignia.
Exclusive photo of a McCain campaign strategy session…
Hmmmm.
Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge ‘developed from first-hand sources’ of a car crash that involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in 1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not entirely, kept from the public. And in documents [...]
… in Arizona.
I swear, the McCain campaign now has more in common with a supermarket tabloid or Laguna Beach than a presidential campaign
However, there is a significant rift inside the McCain campaign.
Those loyal to McCain believe they have been unfairly blamed for over-handling Palin. They say they did the best they could with what they got.
They point [...]
RNC now advertising… in MONTANA.
Jesus.
McCain rolled out a photo-op of his economic advisers today. Somehow the woman who was in the past touted as his “economic brain”, Carly Fiorina, is missing. Guess she was permanently thrown off the bus.
Watching Sen. McCain’s stump speech in Iowa today, I am struck by how bad it is. Content aside, it is just a poorly delivered argument for why people should elect him president. Ranking it, it has more in common with John Kerry and Bob Dole. It’s a series of lines, each designed to elicit some [...]
John McCain is now faced with a campaign consistently lagging behind Sen. Obama. While it is still possible for the polls to tighten as we get closer to election day, he hasn’t led in a single major poll since near the end of September. Even in the polls that have the most favorable turnout models [...]
why the heck McCain and Palin are campaigning in Iowa and Pennsylvania? Colorado, I understand. Florida, I understand. New Hampshire even makes sense. And certainly Ohio. But they’re spending their limited resources in states where poll after poll shows a double digit deficit.
Then again, almost 8 years ago George W. Bush was campaigning in California [...]
At one of his rally, McCain promises to “test them”, the “them” in this case being foreign adversaries.
Let’s give Damon Weaver an event to cover in Washington in January…
So sad.
John McCain and the Republican National Committee reported having a combined $84 million as of last week to spend before Election Day, according to reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.
McCain, who has accepted public financing for his campaign, is restricted in his spending. As of Oct. 15 he had more than $25 [...]
“He called the police emergency line because he was angry he was stuck in traffic. The 911 call came into the City of Alexandria on Oct. 21st That’s creating some buzz because it appears to come from Joe McCain, John McCain’s brother.” [Link]
She’s pretty unintelligible as usual. Seriously, can’t understand what she’s saying for 90% of it, but its intriguing the way they can’t just come out and say an abortion clinic bomber is a terrorist.
Guess they don’t want to offend the base of the base.
UPDATE: Ricky Gervais says Palin is David Brent. Kind of makes sense [...]
This is like Bizarro World. Where the Democrats are the disciplined ones and the GOP is acting out Lord of the Flies.
The candidate’s strategists in recent days have become increasingly vocal in interviews and conference calls about what they call unfair news media coverage and Barack Obama’s wide financial advantage — both complaints laying down [...]
Is McCain already prepping for avoiding crowds on election night?
Republican John McCain is not going to make his election night remarks in the traditional style — at a podium standing in front of a sea of campaign workers jammed into a hotel ballroom.
Oh, the throng of supporters will hold the usual election night party at [...]
The McCain campaign protested way too loudly against earlier reports that they were pulling out of Colorado. Wingnut Michelle Malkin saw a media plot! Alas, it is true.
Republicans are slashing their television advertising at Colorado’s three biggest television stations, a troubling sign for presidential nominee John McCain.
McCain is headed to Colorado Friday, but public records [...]
That’s sort of hitting the trifecta.
McCain campaign buying ad time… in Indiana!
13 days before the election, the McCain campaign has decided to spend several hundred thousands dollars on a last-minute television buy in the state of Indiana.
This is the first time in a month that the campaign has spent its own money on television in the Hoosier state.
George W. Bush [...]
Just sayin’.
Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market’s downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America’s economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents.
And at least some of its supporters think Sen. John McCain is the presidential candidate best [...]
Ok. Now we’re just pointing and laughing.
McCain supporters won’t like seeing this at the same time they’re pulling out of swing states. Couldn’t they have used that money in Michigan? Sheesh!
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in [...]
Caution, senior candidate speaking:
Murtha’s comments here have been really dumb, but not as incoherent as McCain.
The Republican party fully supports the Bull Connor/George Wallace agenda.
McCain supporters heckle early voters
Photographer Joe Eddins and I headed over to the closest one and found a steady line of voters hoping to cast ballots early. Most seemed to be Obama supporters and several had come from the rally. Nearly all the voters were black. [...]
McCain campaign trying to figure a way to win without Colorado. The problem is, there really is not a way for them to win without Colorado.
The McCain campaign is looking at an Electoral College strategy heading into the final two weeks that has virtually no room for error and depends heavily on a dramatic comeback [...]
I don’t think this is legal.
Russia’s permanent mission to the UN has received a letter from U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain asking for financial support of his election campaign, the mission said in a statement on Monday.
‘We have received a letter from Senator John McCain with a request for a financial donation to his [...]
Hey look, it’s the base on the attack again. She must live in the real America of McCain/Palin where its sane to destroy a sign on someone’s private property.
John McCain is having a terrible time of it on Fox News Sunday, and the weird thing is Chris Wallace didn’t press him terribly. He just comes across as a cranky old guy who is willing to say whatever in order to win. He’s basically been reduced to saying “Joe the plumber!” “William Ayers!” “Spread [...]
I don’t know why McCain doesn’t just use the “n” word and cut through the clutter.
Ronald Reagan did it first
The term “welfare queen” is most often associated with Ronald Reagan who brought the idea to a national audience. During his 1976 presidential campaign, Reagan would tell the story of a woman from Chicago’s South Side [...]
The “real Virginia” crack is leading the local news here. Not good for McCain at all. It’s like the Clinton campaign’s refrain about which states did and didn’t count but far far worse. Virginia was already leaning Obama, this may lock it in.
WUSA Channel 9’s (the CBS affiliate) open to the 11PM news: “If you’re [...]
Because, you know they’ve got all those Democrats and minorities in Northern Virginia. Yesterday Sarah Palin said some states were pro-America and some weren’t. Now they’ve ratcheted it up so that even within some states the residents aren’t “real” Americans.
These people make me sick.
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Is it possible that John McCain is the Carrot Top of political candidates? He keeps using props to keep his failing campaign propped up. First it was Sarah Palin, whose selection was hyped as the magic bullet that would seal the deal for him. In fact, Palin is probably a net negative for McCain, keeping [...]
Matt Drudge tries to haul McCain over the finish line using bogus polls.
David Letterman is the first national media figure to ask John McCain about his multi-decade relationship with convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy. Letterman!
Nowadays you get more journalism from the Daily Show, Colbert, and Letterman than from an entire week of the twenty-four hour “news” networks.
And people wonder why McCain rally attendees feel free to embrace racism and call for Obama to be killed.
Among the images that greeted visitors to the John McCain campaign office in Pompano Beach this week was a sign headlined ‘Barrack Hussein Obama’ that compared the Democratic presidential candidate to Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler and Fidel [...]
McCain is campaigning in states that he is likely to lose in the double digits. Why? Do secret internal Republican polls tell another story? Unlikely. John McCain is almost pathologically obsessed with Teddy Roosevelt, and romanticizes the idea of the rough and tumble pol who bends others to his will. This is something that doesn’t [...]
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