Fmr McCain Aide On Meltdown: "We Began The Campaign Believing Our Own BS"

New York Magazine:

For the past decade, John Weaver had been Senator John McCain's chief strategist, the man behind the whole Straight Talk barnstorming shtick that made the conservative Arizonan a media star. Then, after building ­McCain into an apparent shoo-in for the Republican nomination--a maverick savior for his party--he sank the campaign into debt and disarray, leading to his resignation last week. He accepts all blame. "We had a spending problem, a message problem, a spending problem ... that's nobody's fault but mine," Weaver says in his first interview since resigning last week. "We began the campaign believing our own b.s., and I'm very guilty of that."

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