McCain In Vain?
(Okay, I have no idea what the headline means, either)…
Apparently, John McCain’s staffers were none too happy about his announcement for Prez on the Letterman show:
John McCain‘s Obama-esque remarks about our “wasted” resources in Iraq weren’t the only comments that landed him in hot water after a recent appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. Many of his staff were blindsided by his campaign announcement. And several aides were so outraged that they’ve quit, say Republican insiders.
“They’re imploding—he had a game plan that had him announcing much later in the year,” one top Republican aide tells Radar, adding that the campaign is “in serious trouble … Romney‘s plan and Rudy‘s jump in the polls caused him to scrap his plans completely. When you do that, and you’re not prepared for it, the staff goes crazy. Some of his coordinators in different states were pulling their hair out!”
Another insider, a guru to the conservative movement, says that McCain himself is growing increasingly desperate in the wake of his downward slide in the polls—a slip hastened by his steadfast support of the very man who savaged him and his family during the 2000 election, George W. Bush, and the president’s unpopular plan for troop surge in Iraq. “One of the top aides to the Republican leadership told me that McCain has lost so much support, he’s simply beside himself. He’s wringing his hands. Things are sinking fast—in two or three weeks, we’ll know if there is any recovery.”
Hmmm…sounds like a plant, to me. I doubt very seriously McCain is ‘wringing his hands’ over his loss of support. It’s far too early, and he’s far too seasoned a politician…
Sounds like a plant to me, too. I’m willing to believe they’re worried about the poll numbers, but if he has staffers who are really furious he announced he was running for president earlier than planned – an announcement which surprised no one in the entire United States of America – then he needs to get some less high-strung staffers anyway.