Though he is our senator, lots of people here dislike McCain for reasons that I as a Dem can’t understand.

He gets no love from our crappy newspaper. He gets no love from the wingnut limbug radio stations.

He gets no love from gun nuts.

I honestly don’t know anyone who admits to voting for him.

It’s one reason (and the other is that I’m not a pundit) that I think a good strong argument could swing the state blue. (We have governor and mayor that call themselves blue.)

The ousters of some of the staff members came after Mr. McCain imposed a new policy that active lobbyists would not be allowed to hold paying jobs in the campaign.

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.

More than that, they said, Mr. McCain organizationally still seems far behind where President Bush was in 2004. Several Republican Party leaders said they were worried the campaign was losing an opportunity as they waited for approval to open offices and set up telephone banks.

“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.”

Mr. McCain’s campaign has transmitted conflicting messages in recent days about how he would present himself, as he has sought to reassure conservatives nervous about his ideological consistency even as he has tried to expand his appeal to moderates and liberals.

www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/us/politics/25mccain.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/24/gop-fears-mccain-is-laggi_n_103411.html

all poll still indicates a pretty close presidential race, under 5%

It says a lot about what Mencken called the “booboisie” that about eighty of one hundred Americans think that Bush is doing a terrible job,but about twenty five within those eighty would vote for somebody who promises more of the same, only worse.

the MSM will probably give McCain free all of the publicity Obama will have to pay for… The only thing wrong with this sentence is the realization that MikeEss has too many copies of the word “probably” lying around his house and is now putting them even where they don’t belong.

Oooh! And bonus points for “love slaves”.

Instead he keeps firing his campaign higher ups. He also doesn’t seem to have his ‘money machine’ working right.”

I would like to think this helps Democrats, but it’s taking place at a lower level of visibility than things like Clinton comparing ’08’s primary election climate to ’68’s. Added to McCain’s relationship with his MSM love slaves, this stuff is probably not hurting him much, if any…

As far as the money goes, the MSM will probably give McCain free all of the publicity Obama will have to pay for…

…okay, and what are Paul and Ringo doing?…

“Live sex capped off with GOP fight to the death? I might buy a ticket to see that.”

Even better: Thunderdome! Two men enter, one man leaves…

The change of locations was spun as … And there Chester nails the biggest, most dangerous opponent that the Dem nominee will have in the fall: the media through which about four out of five Americans get most of their news.

This race is the Democrats’ to lose (and what’s scary is we’re fully capable of doing so).

I think that’s what draws many people to Obama. His campaign staff all seem to be people who either didn’t go to or flunked out of the Democratic Party Gun Safety and Marksmanship Course. A noble course, it mostly involves the instructor screaming,

“Aaaagg!!!! There’s a monster with a tongue and horrible laces-like tentacles on the end of your foot! Shoot it! SHOOT IT!!!!!”

Reload, rinse, repeat, they always say.

Joking aside, there does seem to be some netroots-like core to the Obama campaign which wants to swim upstream against the traditional DLC model of “if it’s GOP, if it’s a proven loser and if it pisses off our base, give me more!”.

Live sex capped off with GOP fight to the death? I might buy a ticket to see that.