Posted on 05/25/2008 9:48:39 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign is in a troubled stretch, hindered by resignations of staff members, a lagging effort to build a national campaign organization and questions over whether he has taken full advantage of Democratic turmoil to present a case for his candidacy, Republicans say...
Some state party leaders said they were apprehensive about the unusual organization Mr. McCain had set up: the campaign has been broken into 10 semi-autonomous regions, with each having power over things like television advertising and the candidate’s schedule, decisions normally left to headquarters...
"They finally assigned someone to West Virginia three weeks ago," said Doug McKinney, the state Republican chairman there. "I had a couple of contacts with him and I e-mailed him twice and I never heard back. I finally called and they said that the guy had resigned"...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I guess our only saving grace here is that both Barack Hussein Obama Jr and Hillary Rodham Clinton are also career legislators who are running amateurish, ramshackle campaigns themselves.
Thank God for Operation Chaos.
And pray for the Republic - one of these three incompetent simpletons is going to be in charge of a $2 Trillion budget come January.
I'll understand if you disagree - but people need a wakeup call about the disarray in the McCain camp this late in the season [when he ought to be moving aggressively to capitalize on fundraising & organization while Hillary & Barack are still eviscerating one another].
No thanks. I can critique JM and his campaign without this BS.
Seems to me that the Grand Old Plantation has a lot more to worry about than disarray in the McCain camp.
Hillary isn’t getting the nomination and Obama will gaffe himself to death...McCain wins by default
Read the article - this isn't BS:
"They finally assigned someone to West Virginia three weeks ago," said Doug McKinney, the state Republican chairman there. "I had a couple of contacts with him and I e-mailed him twice and I never heard back. I finally called and they said that the guy had resigned"...McCain has been raising on the order of $5 million to $10 million per month, while Barack Hussein Obama Jr has been raising on the order of $30 million to $35 million per month.
Thank God that Operation Chaos is forcing Obama to burn through all that cash while Hillary is still in the race.
But come autumn, Obama will have the entire media united behind him like nothing we've ever seen before - the media effort for Obama will make their 1960 effort for JFK look like peanuts by comparison.
It's almost difficult to overemphasize how critical this time period is for McCain - he wrapped up the nomination months ago, and yet he still doesn't even have a national campaign infrastructure in place.
Obama has the Mainstream Media infrastructure [plus the Universities and the NGOs and the Chattering Classes and the Unions and blah blah blah] - McCain, on the other hand, has nothing and has to build it all from scratch, but it sounds like he hasn't even picked up the hammer yet [in fact, he might not even have ordered the lumber and the nails yet].
You'll have to talk to the Robinsons about fixing the broken search engine.
This is one more reason McCain needs to pick Romney as his VP. Not only will Romney raise vast amounts of money but he has the organization skills like no other candidate, to put together a winning team.
Whoa... Thank goodness for the New York Times.... this is the first I heard about all these "worries in G.O.P.". I'm sure we'll read plenty more about this from the NY Times along with loads of "upbeat, unified Democrat party" stories.
LOL, I'm with you - - McCain may as well commit political suicide, now.
Disarray?!?
It looks to me like he's running Bob Dole's Election Playbook page by page!
Of course we all know how well that turned out.
Problems in McCain’s campaign don’t concern me at all. I could give a rat’s rear end about that phony.
Thanks for posting. I missed the other one. :)
If the NY Slimes says it, it probably isn’t true.
“This is one more reason McCain needs to pick Romney as his VP”
One thing I’ve begun to worry about with McCain’s seemingly bi-weekly ramblings off the conservative divide is if we’re not going to end up tainting a future up-and-comer in the GOP by running with McCain. You can’t have a VP candidate routinely disagreeing with the Presidential candidate, or at least I don’t think so. Seems to me the Dems would use that as a wedge to split the ticket in half.
That said, following along with McCain not only is a good way to lose one’s conservative credentials at the moment, it’s a good way not to get them back given our society’s long-term memory.
It’s one of my concerns with a Sanford/Romney/DeMint VP choice.
You think that’s at all well-founded? The only advantage is that if McCain somehow wins, that VP is next in line for the next election cycle.
We can worry about the Veep later - what McCain needs now is organization and fundraising.
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