The world outside the newspaper publishing industry and the McCain for President Campaign Headquarters pretty much agrees that the Senate Immigration Fiasco put John McCain’s White House aspirations in the hurt locker. The media will tell us otherwise. They see the world as the world is not and broadcast that misinformation far and wide.
The Inside the Beltway version of McCain’s demise blames his catastrophic decline on his support of the Iraq Surge. If a politician says too many nice things about a general who won Senate confirmation by over 80 votes, that campaign is clearly headed for the toilet and then rapidly into the sewage system. The authors of this convenient myth have walked through too many DC Metro parking lots where the authorities seem to tow the cars without Jim Webb or John Kerry bumper stickers.
The McCainiac version of the story involves two profligate aids, who mismanaged John McCain into dire straits, while the noble patrician senator labored in the sweaty vineyards of good and responsible governance. Terry Nelson, the wags all say, spent McCain’s campaign into an impecunious quagmire. Ron Paul has more in the bank.Good governance, in the strange and mysterious world of Citizen McCain, has included the McCain-Feingold 1st Amendment Repeal, The McCain-Lieberman Carbon Cartel, and a commitment to Federally-Funded embryonic stem cell research. This was how John McCain served the GOP base prior to his drive across the immigration reform bridge with Edward Kennedy.
John Weaver has also been tossed unceremoniously under the bus. Weaver, unlike Nelson, probably deserves to get turned into axel-grease. His prior campaign experience involved a jaunt with General Wesley Clark in 2004.
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/cni_redrum/2007/jul/12/mccain_s_immigration_bill_outsourced_his_donors