Republicans Sense Disorder in McCain Campaign (Mike Murphy Visits to Avert GOP Electoral Disaster)

[oldpol]

Source: The International Herald Tribune

Last Sunday, McCain invited Mike Murphy, his longtime friend and political adviser, who is not involved in this campaign, to his home in Virginia. There, Murphy reportedly gave him a detailed and, at times, tough assessment of what McCain had done wrong.

Murphy urged him to tone down his attacks on Obama and stop coming across as so angry. He recommended that McCain concentrate on running as a reform candidate to strip that issue from Obama and make greater efforts to distance himself from Bush, according to Republicans familiar with the conversation. Some of McCain's associates said that McCain may be interested in bringing Murphy back on board but that his current circle of advisers was resisting that.

Republicans said McCain certainly had time to get his campaign back on track, and they remained confident that he would be a strong general election candidate against Obama. Some said the level of concern was either overstated or reflected the general Republican apprehension about this electoral environment rather than anything McCain had done wrong.

"I think any Republican who doesn't say panic is in the wind is lying through their shirt," said Ron Kaufman, a former senior adviser to the first President George Bush who worked this year for Mitt Romney. "The question is, is that panic caused by McCain's campaign - or lack thereof in some respects - or is it the climate and, in some respects, the bad braining the Republican Party is taking these days." But McCain's associates said the campaign had failed to anticipate the extent to which the news media would use the policy to examine McCain's staff. The result was a run of damaging stories and resignations that highlighted not the policy itself but the backgrounds of top campaign officials,

Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/25/america/campaign.php

[rocktivity]

1. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" award

...Mike Murphy, his longtime friend and political adviser...recommended that McCain concentrate on running as a reform candidate...and make greater efforts to distance himself from Bush...

Yep, run as a reform candidate--but first, explain why you helped Bush FORM the very things you're promising to RE-FORM now! As for "distancing" yourself from Bush:



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rocknation

[greiner3]

2. "lying through their shirt,"

What in the Sam Hill does that mean? Is he sweating too much? Someone did a wedgie with his shirt? He brings up his arm and lies through his shirt? I'm lost here; anyone?

[truthisfreedom]

3. Can't help you. Do a google search for "the bad braining" and you'll see that doesn't exist either.

They're so panicked they can't form sentences.

[Sam Ervin jret]

4. Bad braining? lying through the shirt? They have too long Bush to listened.

Oh my God!! ME TOO!!