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McCain Lays Off Some Campaign Staff

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Thu Apr 12, 2007 at 01:09:00 AM EST
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Just another sign the John McCain candidacy is in trouble:

Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record)'s troubled presidential campaign is eliminating some non-senior staff positions and cutting some consultants' contracts.

The Arizona senator's campaign characterized the moves as "minor adjustments" that are part of an overall effort to revamp its fundraising office and budgeting operation.

I have to say I never considered him a serious contender. The battle will be between Rudy Giuliani and Mitch Romney. If Giulani shoots himself in the foot, which I expect he will, Newt Gingrich may step in.

I also don't think Tommy Thompson or Fred Thompson stand a chance. But it's still early. Can another Republican candidate emerge?

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    Good. (none / 0) (#1)
    by fafnir on Thu Apr 12, 2007 at 05:57:08 AM EST
    The regressives are in deep trouble for '08, and it's about time the wheels start coming off McCain's Crazy Talk Express.

    Brownback. He is the real deal IMHO. (none / 0) (#2)
    by cal11 voter on Thu Apr 12, 2007 at 09:41:09 AM EST
    He needs to build some momentum on his $2 million fundraising first quarter.

    no thompsons (none / 0) (#3)
    by orionATL on Thu Apr 12, 2007 at 09:59:32 AM EST
    good.

    i consider either of them the most dangerous possible opponent for a democrat.

    why?

    because either has the "talent" and experience in public presentation of self to appear sensible to voters alienated by bush.

    it cannot be stressed too much that voters have a fixation on the personality of presidential candidates - due to the immediacy of teevee, alas.

    the policies and histories of a party do not count for near as much in many voters' minds as they should.

    i'll settle for giulianni or romney any day - the former for this connections and friendships, the latter for his religion.

    p.s. jeralyn,

    is it o.k if i refer to don imus as the a-man on this weblog? :)

    But I hope not... (none / 0) (#4)
    by desertswine on Thu Apr 12, 2007 at 11:11:14 AM EST
    Can another Republican candidate emerge?

    Jeb. The Republican candidates are so flawed that I'm waiting for the draft Jeb movement.

    Tommy (none / 0) (#5)
    by Ben Masel on Thu Apr 12, 2007 at 12:17:35 PM EST
    Whodathunk there'd be 9 Republicans vieing for the Presidential Nomination, and our Tommy'd be the smart one.

    I ran against him in the 1990 Primary, he ducked all joint appearances.

    McCain is a psychological disorder (none / 0) (#6)
    by Dadler on Thu Apr 12, 2007 at 12:25:02 PM EST
    To make the kind of statement he did about the "progress" in Iraq that no one was hearing about, how he could walk through some streets all by himself and be safe and dandy, how Petraeus drives around freely in an unarmed Hummer, to say these things when you KNOW them to be bald faced lies (and if you don't know that in your position, then you're incompetent)...you must have a very dominant streak of sociopathy and stupidity and out of control hubris.

    Pawlenty Prospecting (none / 0) (#7)
    by LimaBN on Thu Apr 12, 2007 at 01:37:01 PM EST
    Minnesota Governor Timothy Pawlenty won a second term last November.  As with his first election, he got less than a majority of the vote, but squeaked through.  This time, it happened because Mike Hatch, our feisty Attorney General, got creamed by Stan Hubbard (neo-con owner of KSTP-TV).  Hubbard found out about some videotape that did not get aired by a small outstate station that showed Hatch getting pissed at a one-sided attack on his lieutenant governor candidate's momentary lapse in responding to a question about ethanol - which she was actually  quite familiar with.  Hubbard aired the hell out of it over the last two weeks.

    Note also that the famous Republican SwiftBoatDonor from Texas, the guy who makes his millions from peddling cheap housing developments, gave Pawlenty a huge cash infusion of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the last couple of weeks before the election.  Forget his name. Perry?  Longtime BushCo activist and donor.

    Pawlenty has been traipsing around with McCain as his likely v.p. candidate.  Now that McCain is melting down, Pawlenty will probably figure this is his best chance - now or never.  He's one of the very few Republicans to win statewide office this last November, and he's got the Republican National Convention coming to his front yard - less than a mile downhill from his office at the state capitol - in St. Paul.

    No apparent skills, but lots of ambition.

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