Breaking: NY Times Endorses Obama (At bottom).
With a slew of Battleground and national polls showing McCain down double digits (latest CBS/NY Times Poll has McCain down 13), Neiman Marcus-Gate; flagging Red State campaigns and with only 12 days to go. With the wind at Obama's back, the GOP is coming to the realization that their going to lose and it could be a beat down!
Here's the NY Times Poll http://www.nytimes.com/...
Many GOP-ers are now scurrying for cover, while covering their asses, according to Politico:
With despair rising even among many of John McCain’s own advisors, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering—-much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.
http://www.politico.com/...
After McCain's Meltdown against the GOP and in a Washington Times article and GOP strategist, Brad Blakemen, mocking Obama's chartered airplane trip to visit his ailing Grandmother (in comparison to Palin's $150,000 shopping spree, the GOP are now going bat shit crazy!
Politico continues:
Top Republican officials have let it be known they are distressed about McCain’s organization. Coordination between the McCain campaign and Republican National Committee, always uneven, is now nearly dysfunctional, with little high-level contact and intelligence-sharing between the two.
"There is no communication," lamented one top Republican. "It drives you crazy."
It's gotten so bad with the McCain campaign, that according to Politico, campaign staffers are already sending out resumes:
One well-connected Republican in the private sector was shocked to get calls and resumes in the past few days from what he said were senior McCain aides – a breach of custom for even the worst-off campaigns.
"It’s not an extraordinarily happy place to be right now," said one senior McCain aide. "I’m not gonna lie. It’s just unfortunate."
"If you really want to see what ‘going negative’ is in politics, just watch the back-stabbing and blame game that we’re starting to see," said Mark McKinnon, the ad man who left the campaign after McCain wrapped up the GOP primary. "And there’s one common theme: Everyone who wasn’t part of the campaign could have done better."
"The cake is baked," agreed a former McCain strategist. "We’re entering the finger-pointing and positioning-for-history part of the campaign. It’s every man for himself now."
There were a lot of great quotes in this article, from famous reporters, pundits, activist, staffers, etc. (with or with out attribution). But this quote pretty much sums up the McCain campaign (in a article with many):
A House Republican leadership aide in an e-mail was no more complimentary: "The staff has been remarkably undisciplined, too eager to point fingers, unable to craft any coherent long term strategy. The handling of Palin (not her performances, but her rollout and availability) has been nothing short of political malpractice. I understand the candidate might have other opinions and might be dictating some aspects of the campaign to staff – but the lack of discipline and ability to draft and stick to a coherent message is unreal. You have half of the campaign saying Ayers is a major issue, and then the candidate out there saying he doesn’t care about a washed up terrorist. You have McCain one day echoing Milton Friedman and the next day echoing FDR."
Also more bad news for McCain. The NY Times just endorsed Obama:
Here's what the Times had to say about Obama:
Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.
Here's what they said, right after about McCain:
In the same time, Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. His policies and worldview are mired in the past. His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress.
Given the particularly ugly nature of Mr. McCain’s campaign, the urge to choose on the basis of raw emotion is strong. But there is a greater value in looking closely at the facts of life in America today and at the prescriptions the candidates offer. The differences are profound.
Mr. McCain offers more of the Republican every-man-for-himself ideology, now lying in shards on Wall Street and in Americans’ bank accounts. Mr. Obama has another vision of government’s role and responsibilities.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Obvious Kossacks. It's not over. But as the phrase says, "the wind is at our backs". All we need to do is not get complacent and execute. We got to organize, call, persuade, donate and ultimately, vote!
Here's the Washington Times Article, where McCain Kills Bush and other Republicans.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/...