After Period Of Calm, McCain Camp Once Again Swirl Of Competing Cliques

Senator John McCain's campaigns have long been defined by internal squabbling and power plays, zigzagging lines of command and a penchant by the candidate for consulting with former advisers without alerting current ones, always a recipe for disquiet.

After a period of relative calm on that score, it is becoming clear that his campaign is once again a swirl of competing spheres of influence, clusters of friends, consultants and media advisers who represent a matrix of clashing ambitions and festering feuds. The cast includes the surviving members of Mr. McCain's 2000 campaign, led by Rick Davis and Mark Salter; a new camp out of the world of Karl Rove, led by the recently ascendant Steve Schmidt; and on the periphery, the ever-present Mike Murphy, Mr. McCain's strategist in the 2000 presidential race who has been dispensing advice to the candidate to the annoyance of the other camps, and is the subject of intensifying rumors in Republican circles that he is about to re-enter the campaign.

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Comments

[levibatgirl]

cindy always looks bored to death. No wonder she takes pills to numb out.

I can't imagine having to present myself to prying eyes as the wife of this vile little man.

[Naithom]

Check out the body language in that picture of McCain and his wife. Scary.

[nowRnever]

And yet there are still those who believe this man can run this country! Who the hell are they kidding?

[Horatio]

Leadership you can count on.

[Forester]

b a t s h i t and the wifebot

[Camel54]

In an attempt to spread this glorious bit of McCain straight talk, here's something from The Rude Pundit

In a nutshell, McCain bad-mouthed economists b/c they didn't like his gas tax holiday. He said they were morons for not seeing the housing crisis coming. In the release of his new economic plan, one of the economists who back him is University of Chicago's Gary Becker who said back in December 2007, "The vast majority of economists, including me, were surprised by the extent of the subprime mortgage crisis."

So McCain needs to be asked if the economists who are supporting his economic plan are morons.

[SeriousBlack]

Period of calm? You mean a couple of days?

And is it just my imagination or does Cindy McCain look like she REALLY doesn't wanna be there...

[MaracaKabob]

What's up with Cindy, I don't mean to harp on the spouses, but she looks kind of mean and cold. Like the that ice queen from Narnia.

[SEQUOIABISON]

Play nice now children it's almost over then you can return to your globe trotting life style of the rich and famous visiting your many homes, sorry you won't get an opportunity to rob our treasury and give our money away to your friends the way your buddy W did.

[poco767b]

McCain is running a national campaign like a street gang.

[ObamAtomic]

Rep King (New York) your interview with your foot on your mouth, silly,
you stated McAntique will not be running a good campaign,how you expect McAntique to win?
Your state of delusions is such, you can not made distinction between reality and fiction

[firewmn]

Leadership qualities of McWeekender =

internal squabbling,

power plays,

zigzagging lines of command,

a matrix of clashing ambitions,

and festering feuds,

annoyance,

intensifying rumors,


and Malibu Cindy well her opperative word in this article is "RECIEPS".....

McWeekender - Leadership - we can do without......


BTW- Where is his Flag Pin & why does he get a pass from the press..???

[MizLiz]

::: GASP:::: you mean you didn't know he was a POW? And got tortured and everything??? This is what gets you a free pass, senility and incompetence notwithstanding.

[soithoni]

You're not impuning Senator McSnooooooooooze's integrity, are you? Well.... ARE YOU?!?!

[ldsrapha]

This makes me so excited to watch Obama sweep this election. It is time for TRUE change in America!!!! The thought of this bumbling manager in the White House is enough to drive his base home.

[Mort]

Has anyone ever seen John and Cindy show the slightest bit of love toward each other? Hold hands, hug, smile, anything? It's almost like they appear onstage but they're really in seperate rooms.

[NotMcCain]

True, but would you really -want- to see them kiss?

ew.

Plus, He looks old enough to be her grandfather.

Obama / Clark '08

[NoahVail]

This clueless upper-class twit has lucked into every job he ever got (but Cindy was smart enough to make him sign a pre-nup). Do not discount the possibility that he can somehow wind up in the White House. He would be a boon to the billionaires and the corporations, and they have a way of creating luck.