Worries in G.O.P. About Disarray in McCain Camp

Let this put to rest the gleeful posts by a certain Clinton supporter that suggests a McCain "blowout." This is pretty much what all of the other press believes.



WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign is in a troubled stretch, hindered by resignations of staff members, a lagging effort to build a national campaign organization and questions over whether he has taken full advantage of Democratic turmoil to present a case for his candidacy, Republicans say.

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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.”

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Some Republicans said they were concerned that the Democrats would soon unify around Mr. Obama, and that it was only a matter of weeks before Mr. Obama began unloading a huge round of advertising intended to define Mr. McCain. If that happens, they said, Mr. McCain may look back at this period as a time of missed opportunity.

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“He is going to need extraordinary participation of Republicans if Democrats continue to flock to the polls the way they have,” said Kris Kobach, the Republican Party leader from Kansas. “It’s critical that he use this period to generate enthusiasm from his base.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/us/politics/25mccain.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss



:bounce:

We have an email list of volunteers in every town in all 50 states.

Sucks to be Johnny.

It doesn't seem that any part of their campaign act is organized, on message, fiscally or administratively.
Man, if this were reversed and Obama had all this time on his own...imagine the trail he would have blazed by now.

Well, that's good news for our side. I'm sure Obama's team is ready to get up and running but the more time we have the better.

What a totally bad year to have no ground game.

built their ground game in every state.

Note to Clinton supporters: that's why 'small states' matter in the primaries.

- as

I was and am a supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, and I still think she's the best qualified candidate that the Democratic Party has. However, I think it's very likely the Barrack Obama will get the Democratic nomination in Denver this July.

That being said, I WILL vote for the Democratic nominee this November. The US has gone through seven and so years of the worst US presidential administration in living memory, and I do not believe that the US can afford even four more years of the McSame from the Republican heir-apparent.

I remain distressed that Senator Obama has so little Washington experience under his belt. I really would have preferred that he was a bit older and more experienced before he made his presidential run. On the other hand, the incumbent at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was as inexperienced, but Barrack Obama seems to be smarter and is willing to learn, which is something that George HW's and Barbara's beamish boy never did.

Moreover, Senator Obama doesn't take right-wing and Republican attacks with the supine attitude that all too many Democrats have shown since Jimmy Carter's day. As Abraham Lincoln said of Ulysses S. Grant--"I like that man. He fights."

I like that. I can vote for him.

As for the whore press, I have lost my respect for and confidence in much of the US-based Washington press corps years ago, and I fail to see why we should believe yet more of their tripe.

The conservatives hate him; the religious right doesn't trust him; even some of his Republican colleagues in the Senate said that the thought of him being President sent "cold chills down their spines."

I have to have some hope that as Democrats calm down and stop all of this internal idiocy, that all of the attention and focus will go where it should -- on wiping the floor with McCain. Judging by the ENORMOUS amount of antipathy towards him from his own base, I don't get how that could be all that difficult.