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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Quite true, but also the print media with its automatic assumptions, lies through obfuscation and withholding key information, loaded buzzwords, and tag team hit pieces. People will tell you they don't buy that swill, but they do.
McCain is in real trouble down here. The press is ignoring Hayworth. Very bad for Stupid John. He has spent a ton of money months before the action begins. He remains hated and despised.
McCain is a total whore, even for Islamic foreign nationals, as long as they've got cash.
HE is not going to build a fence. Total BS.
I think the murder of that rancher and his dog may have finally been able to cut through all the elite AZ media BS of covering for McCain. McShame has been like Boss Hogg or Mayor Daley(s) in AZ for years.
I am hopeful the folks in AZ have seen McCain is for wide open borders which is bankrupting AZ and MCCain is also for OBAMA.
No fence, why, no fence?
McCain is in BIG trouble here in AZ. The TEA Party groups and other conservative groups detest him.
He tried to get all of the Rep. Party funds for incumbents and not give any to the challengers earlier in the year so I really want to hear more about these minions of his going to work with the Rep. Party. I will see what I can find out on that topic.
Thanks for the update. I hope McCain goes down in flames to JD. AZ is leading the way.
What do the latest polls look like???
The los-er needs to retire.
And Robert “the Klansman” Byrd is in his 90’s and nearly comatose....yet the sheeple keep on electing these dinosaur socialist RATS & Rinos.
The melanoma could have spread to his brain...........(just wondering, here...)
JD has GOT to show the flip-flops in his ads - I haven’t seen one JD ad, here in Sedona.
LOL!
fish rots from the head down. Only the corrupt, inept or liberal would follow McCain.
Let’s hope today our ol friend Arlen gets whats coming to him!
Don’t know if Sestac will harder to beat come NOV. but Spectre needs his nose rubbed in it regardless.
JD needs money badly. McCain knows this, and will not debate Hayworth.
B U M P
While not having a dog in this fight, I think of all the koolaid I swallowed during the 2008 campaign, all the arguments I had in support of this national hero and his do-good wife - and how he and she have let me down since then...
NEVER AGAIN!!!!
NO MORE RHINOS - EVAH!!!!!
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