Mccain Campaign Coming Apart, Say Insiders

Almost surely sensing an electoral defeat, McCain advisors are turning on one another. McCain Campaign Coming Apart, Say InsidersBy Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 28th, 2008An increasing sense of defeat and despair is taking over within the campaign of Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain, say a number of top GOP members both inside and outside the McCain camp.Even advisors to the nominee “are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering–much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely,” according to a Politico article published on Friday.Collaboration between the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the McCain camp never was very strong; but now it is practically non-existent. Top-level contact essentially has ceased to exist.”There is no communication,” a leading Republican told Politico. “It drives you crazy.”Almost surely sensing an electoral defeat–if not an outright rout next Tuesday–McCain advisors are turning on one another, each claiming the others led the Republican nominee down the wrong path.”If you really want to see what ‘going negative’ is in politics, just watch the back-stabbing and blame game that we’re starting to see,” ad man Mark McKinnon told Politico. McKinnon left the McCain camp after the Arizona senator essentially won the GOP nomination in the primaries.”The cake is baked,” one former McCain strategist was quoted as telling Politico.”We’re entering the finger-pointing and positioning-for-history part of the campaign. It’s every man for himself now,” he added.And now it appears that even the top of the GOP ticket is coming apart at the seams.”There is no question that there is a rift between Sarah Palin’s camp and that of John McCain inside the Republican campaign,” a number of sources have told ABC News.”Whenever people in the campaign are starting to worry more about their own reputations” rather than who will “win in seven days, there is a significant problem,” added ABC News.The ABC report apparently was confirmed in an article published today by Politico, whose own sources were even more damning.A McCain adviser actually told Politico that Palin is little more than a “whack job.”And things look no better for Congressional Republicans right now. In short order, their presidential ticket is a walking disaster, the national economy is tanking due in large measure to GOP ideas like de-regulation of the banking sector, they have to separate themselves from a incumbent president who many consider the worst in American history, and they must somehow burnish a battered Republican Party image which even former rock-solid conservative districts are beginning to reject.If the Grand Old Party’s gross incompetence hadn’t created all these problems, such dark days would almost make you feel sorry for it. Almost.Like what you’re reading so far? Then why not order a full year (52 issues) of thee-newsletter for only $15? A major article covering an story not being told in the Corporate Press will be delivered to your email every Monday morning for a full year, for less than 30 cents an issue. Order Now! Wait, why does an independent news source run advertisements? The Spark answers in its advertising policy. * Please check out our ads–they help keep this news site running. Thanks!