Tuesday, July 03, 2007
McCain's Future — His Last Shot [John Podhoretz]
John McCain's campaign has been a disaster — overstaffed, under-thought, and incredibly profligate. Yesterday, the campaign sent out a document comparing McCain 2008 to Reagan 1980, to demonstrate that Reagan was in fundraising trouble in 1979 and slipping in polls etc. But of course Reagan did something else to straighten out his ship — he fired his campaign honcho, John Sears. McCain's campaign manager is John Weaver. Weaver actually left the GOP because McCain didn't win the nomination in 1980 2000. Now he's back. They're clearly very, very close. But McCain is going to have to shake himself free of Weaver if he's to have any shot at coming back. If he isn't prepared to do so, then he might as well quit now.
07/03 10:50 AM
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