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McCain shakes up campaign staff as Arizona race tightens
Yahoo News ^ | 5/17/10 | Holly Bailey

Posted on 05/17/2010 10:34:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

It almost seems like a political tradition: the great John McCain campaign-staff shake-up. As the Arizona Republic's Dan Nowicki first reported Sunday, the top two staffers in McCain's Senate re-election effort — campaign manager Shiree Verdone and her deputy, Mike Hellon — have decamped. The two will work for the Arizona Republican Party, overseeing strategy for a "victory" fundraising effort for statewide candidates, including McCain.

The move comes on the heels of a recent TV ad meant to tout McCain's border security credentials, including a push for a stronger fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. "Complete the danged fence," McCain says in the ad. The only problem: Three years ago, McCain dismissed a fence as the "least effective" means of securing the border. The ad prompted much snickering — not just from his GOP primary rival, Rep. J.D. Hayworth, who attacked McCain as a flip-flopper, but even McCain pals like Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), who openly laughed at the ad last week on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; az2010; campaignstaff; hayworth; jdhayworth; juanmccain; mcbama; mccain; mcinsane; mcnuts; mcqueeg; mcstain; mcvain; shakesup; threwitforzero
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1 posted on 05/17/2010 10:34:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Re-Arranging the Deck Chairs perhaps....


2 posted on 05/17/2010 10:35:24 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: NormsRevenge

He could/should retire.


3 posted on 05/17/2010 10:35:59 AM PDT by allmost
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To: NormsRevenge

You rolled over for Obama, John. No roll on out to pasture, RINO.


4 posted on 05/17/2010 10:37:02 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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5 posted on 05/17/2010 10:39:05 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: NormsRevenge
Another badly run campaign. But he won't have Palin to take the blame this time.
6 posted on 05/17/2010 10:39:33 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: NormsRevenge

It didn’t work last time, it won’t work this time.


7 posted on 05/17/2010 10:40:59 AM PDT by texmexis best (My)
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To: US Navy Vet

As the USS McCain goes down...


8 posted on 05/17/2010 10:41:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: NormsRevenge

GO JD!!


9 posted on 05/17/2010 10:42:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: NormsRevenge

He should have hired the Democrats behind his 2008 primary campaign.


10 posted on 05/17/2010 10:43:13 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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Bye-Bye Juan.


11 posted on 05/17/2010 10:44:07 AM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: NormsRevenge
The ad prompted much snickering — not just from his GOP primary rival, Rep. J.D. Hayworth, who attacked McCain as a flip-flopper, but even McCain pals like Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), who openly laughed at the ad last week on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."


12 posted on 05/17/2010 10:44:55 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: a fool in paradise

Maybe David Frum is available to advise the patriarch of “go along to get along Republicanism”?


13 posted on 05/17/2010 10:45:42 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /s tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: a fool in paradise

he should bus down some of the northeastern dems that put him back in the game in the NH primary in ‘08


14 posted on 05/17/2010 10:46:19 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: CaptainK

You mean he want have Palin to save him from being humiliated!!!


15 posted on 05/17/2010 10:46:24 AM PDT by ontap
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To: NormsRevenge; Bokababe

Maybe Cindy can get her boy toy Hashem Thaci (muslim kosovo terrorist) to head up a muslim goon squad for the election of McCain.


16 posted on 05/17/2010 10:47:47 AM PDT by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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Things must not be lookin very rosy for Mcnutjob....tiss good news!
17 posted on 05/17/2010 10:50:50 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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John, act like a man and go quietly. No one wants you.

GO JD!! The country is behind you!
18 posted on 05/17/2010 10:51:40 AM PDT by presently no screen name ( Repeal ZeroCare!)
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To: NormsRevenge

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html


19 posted on 05/17/2010 10:52:02 AM PDT by 353FMG (ISLAM -- America's road to destruction.)
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To: eleni121

What? Please explain as I’m out of the loop on this one


20 posted on 05/17/2010 10:55:02 AM PDT by hattend (The era of John McCain is over, the era of Ronald Reagan is back! Go Sarah Go!)
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