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Top McCain Aides Quit Struggling Campaign
The Washington Post ^ | July 10, 2007 | Dan Balz

Posted on 07/10/2007 10:24:08 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

Republican presidential candidate John McCain accepted the resignations of two of his top aides today in a stunning shakeup of a campaign that has been roiled by financial and political problems.

Campaign manager Terry Nelson and chief strategist John Weaver issued terse statements announcing their departures from the McCain camp, which reportedly came after the candidate erupted after concluding that his top-level advisers had mismanaged the operation.

An angry McCain reportedly confronted Weaver and Nelson about the campaign's operations, particularly the amount of money that was being spent even when it was clear funds were tight. The final confrontation, coming after McCain returned from a visit to Iraq over the weekend, ultimately led to their departures, according to sources......."

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To: PhiKapMom
it was the other way around.

I wasn't right, I just thought it would make more sense that way. It wasn't a statement. Anyway, it appears McCain got more than he bargained for. And now the way the story has come out makes his campaign not only look ineffective, but imploded.

81 posted on 07/10/2007 2:45:19 PM PDT by bcsco ("The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration.")
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To: PhiKapMom

A number of sources are saying that Reed Galen, who had been serving as McCain’s deputy campaign manager, and Rob Jesmer, the campaign’s political director, have tendered their resignations.


82 posted on 07/10/2007 3:11:06 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: gpapa

I heard that too! I heard Rick Davis is taking over the whole campaign. Been a lot of fallout all day. Looks like one was fired and the dominos fell.


83 posted on 07/10/2007 3:20:19 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Inhofe for Senate 08 -- Broken Glass Republican -- vote out the RATs in 2008)
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To: PhiKapMom

I’d bet other campaigns will pick up these guys in a hurry.


84 posted on 07/10/2007 3:56:08 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: Asclepius

Is there any kind of basis like this for your remark or is it just that you are backing another horse and think it useful to take cheap shots at other candidates?

Yes. My basis is the man himself, Mitt Romney, that great cloud of hot, stinky gas, who, when the voters examine him closely, will simply fade away. It will be as if he never existed on the national scene. He will be the Lamar Alexander of this decade, only not quite so charming and intelligent as the original loser. And this is not a cheap shot. It is the painful truth. If you are a Romney supporter you are advised to consider other options.


Ascelepius,

Your pasta is a bit overcooked...way past the al dante.


85 posted on 07/10/2007 4:11:45 PM PDT by PastaMan
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Lindsay, help me rearrange these deck chairs.


86 posted on 07/10/2007 4:14:05 PM PDT by NavVet (O)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Romney maybe pulling in the cash from the faithful and he can bankroll his own campaign, but despite all of his money he can’t break out of single digits because he makes Kerry look like a man of principle and conviction.


87 posted on 07/10/2007 4:18:43 PM PDT by NavVet (O)
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To: SergeiRachmaninov
Is there any kind of basis like this for your remark

I'm guessing it has something to do with mitt being a leftie and anti gun stooge from tax a two craps.

88 posted on 07/10/2007 4:20:45 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Let’s all get our yucks in while we still can. We just think we didn’t like the everyday, run-of-the-mill RINO version of McLaim. Wait until we get a load of the scorned version of this sick, sick puppy. It ain’t gonna be pretty. Or funny.


89 posted on 07/10/2007 4:32:05 PM PDT by thelastvirgil (Lest ye put all your faith in the government to provide for you, check their track record.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

“If he drops out it will be interesting to see who benifits most”

It’ll be one of his fellow RINOs in the race.


90 posted on 07/10/2007 4:49:55 PM PDT by indcons (My 2-step solution to stopping terrorism: defuse the bombs; deport the muslims.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
An angry McCain reportedly confronted Weaver and Nelson about the campaign's operations, particularly the amount of money that was being spent even when it was clear funds were tight.

Since when does McCain care about fiscal responsibility?
91 posted on 07/10/2007 4:51:34 PM PDT by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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To: Anti-Bubba182

"I can't carry the Nuclear Football? What to you MEAN I can't carry the Nuclear Football! I WANT TO CARRY THE NUCLEAR FOOTBALL!!!!"

92 posted on 07/10/2007 5:11:30 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Get out the coffin nails.


93 posted on 07/10/2007 5:46:18 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: gpapa

Their biggest problem is that the campaigns have all hired senior staff and they will never come close to earning what they did with McCain which is why he is low on money. His burn rate was very high for his donations. Only reason that Romney is not down with McCain is that he loaned his campaign over $10 million so far. Both campaigns had high burn rates.

Couldn’t believe what I heard McCain and Romney were paying their staffs right away. Looks like the two campaigns competed against each other for Bush staffers and the salaries went up accordingly.


94 posted on 07/10/2007 5:51:24 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Inhofe for Senate 08 -- Broken Glass Republican -- vote out the RATs in 2008)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Senator McCain — has never done anything in a manner to suggest he is presidential material...

Near the bottom of his class at Annapolis.
Was involved in the destruction of at least 3 aircraft - OURS.

One of the few POWs to come home with questions of behavior as a prisoner and the receiver of unique “attention” by the enemy.

Divorces his injured 1st wife who stood by him while he was a POW - and worked for his release. It is reported she still adores him and would vote for him..

Marries a trophy wife who just happens to be a Beer Fortune heiress.....who steals drugs from a charitable health care office.

Gets involved in the Keating Five Saving and Loan scam, suggesting he profited from defending and interceding for Keating with the Government investigation...

With Kerry - co-chaired the Senate “investigation” on the truthfulness of Vietnam’s POW/MIA reporting status, leading to normalization of relations with Communist Vietnam.

Won no friends in the POW/MIA and Vietnam veteran ranks for his treatment of the families who didn’t believe the Senate’s whitewash of the POW/MIA “investigation”.

Becomes the darling of the Left Wing Press - as the icon of the RINO gang...

McCain/Feingold “Campaign Finance Reform”.
McCain’s position on illegal immigration.

McCain was ALWAYS toast...
The public has finally wised up and come to see him for what he is.......an overrated, over compensated, under performing, back stabbing POS...

Semper Fi


95 posted on 07/10/2007 5:54:53 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: All

- we've steamed over our tow line. - who said we did that?

- we've cut the target adrift. - No. we had a faulty cable.

96 posted on 07/10/2007 7:15:48 PM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: Asclepius
Yes. My basis is the man himself, Mitt Romney, that great cloud of hot, stinky gas, who, when the voters examine him closely, will simply fade away.

Hear hear! How much money he has is not an issue.

97 posted on 07/10/2007 7:23:18 PM PDT by southparkNationalist (I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear and let it pass through me.)
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To: NRA2BFree

Oh yeah. It’s too bad it didn’t keep him out of the cockpit back during Vietnam-a real shame how he managed to work all that into a Senate seat. And then keep it all these years.


98 posted on 07/10/2007 8:12:12 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (impeachment-it's not just for democraps anymore.)
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To: southparkNationalist
Hear hear! How much money he has is not an issue.
Interesting point. By what estimation could money ever be an issue? I suppose it speaks to viability. But the Clintons have lots of money too.
99 posted on 07/10/2007 8:41:19 PM PDT by Asclepius (Friends do not let friends support Willard Milton Romney)
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To: snuffy smiff
Oh yeah. It’s too bad it didn’t keep him out of the cockpit back during Vietnam-a real shame how he managed to work all that into a Senate seat. And then keep it all these years.

Considering he crashed 3 planes, it would have been better had he stayed out of them. How or why people put him in office and kept him there is a mystery. I can't see any substance in the man.

100 posted on 07/10/2007 9:37:33 PM PDT by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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