The tensions and their increasingly public airing provide a revealing coda to the ill-fated McCain-Palin ticket, hinting at the mounting turmoil of a campaign that was described even by many Republicans as incoherent, negative and badly run. Full Story »
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One of the first of what are bound to be many stories on the internal struggles of the Republican ticket. Both up-to-date and retrospective, this was somewhat of an eye-opener. I wonder, though, what we'd be reading about the Obama campaign if McCain had won.
“Every book I’ve read about a campaign is that the one that won, it was a perfect and beautifully run campaign with geniuses running it and incredible messaging, etcetera,” Mr. McCain said then. “And always the one that lost, ‘Oh, completely screwed up, too much infighting, bad people, etcetera.’ So if I win, I believe that historians will say, ‘Way to go, he fine-tuned that campaign, and he got the right people in the right place and as the campaign grew, he gave them more responsibility.’ If I lose,” people will say, “ ‘That campaign, always in disarray.’ ”
This is a great quote from McCain — smacks of the straight talker the press used to fawn over.