McCain’s ‘team of mavericks’ run by ‘old Bush hands.’
McCain’s ‘team of mavericks’ run by ‘old Bush hands.’
The Washington Post observes that many of the advisers on the McCain-Palin campaign are not “a group of outsiders to the Republican Party power structure,” but rather “skilled operatives who learned their crafts in successive Bush campaigns and various jobs across the Bush government over the past eight years“:
[O]thers, including some sympathetic Republicans, have begun to quietly question whether McCain and Palin are well served by strategists so firmly anchored in the Bush establishment when the candidates are presenting themselves as a “team of mavericks” and agents of change. One Republican with long-standing ties to the Bush administration described the situation as a paradox in which Palin is especially vulnerable.
One “Republican loyalist” noted that since Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) chose Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as his running mate, “every single one of the senior aides that she’s brought on board had prominent roles in Bush’s White House or on his campaigns, or both.”
Sort Comments By: Top Rated | Date
24 Responses to “McCain’s ‘team of mavericks’ run by ‘old Bush hands.’”
Topic Cloud
ArchivesBlog Roll
One “Republican loyalist” noted that since Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) chose Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as his running mate, “every single one of the senior aides that she’s brought on board had prominent roles in Bush’s White House or on his campaigns, or both.”
I thought this was McCain's campaign/Administration?
Seems even Sarah thinks the old man is going somewhere...
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 amHarball's Chris Wallace said much the same thing last week.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:24 amIs anyone surprised to read this? I've been saying it for a while now. Obama needs to push home to those LIV's that are looking for another President that they would like to have a beer with, that their candidate is being controlled and will continue to be if elected, the SAME group of advisers that helped George W. Bush run America into the ground in just eight years. Besides this gaggle of loyal Bushies, McCain brings something special of his own to the table, scores of lobbyists looking for their rewards after playing kingmaker. This country can not withstand four years more of this old GOP style politic!
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 amThose pics should be mug shots...
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 am> Those pics should be mug shots…
We should put them on a deck of cards and offer a reward for information leading to their arrest and conviction..
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 amMcLame is Bush on Steroids He is a bumbler with a mean spirit at least Bush had the appearance being even tempered McLame is a mean man and I hope Obama can do something to set him off in the debates
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 amFriends, please!
All these economics/finance dudes play for the same team.
And it AIN'T "People power."
Obama's main guy is Robert Rubin, who was the Treas Sec under Clinton when the Gramm, et all abomination was germinating and then passing in the 90s.
NONE of these people are "friends" of the wage-slave.
They ALL owe their allegiance to BEEEEEEEEG fuuking MONEY.
Robert Rubin's formerly CEO of Goldman-Sachs and Citigroup, and will be SecTreas again if the Elitocracy lets Obama ge installed...
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 amThose pics should be mug shots…
fuque mug shots, they should be on wanted posters...
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 amtokin librul Says: Robert Rubin’s formerly CEO of Goldman-Sachs and Citigroup, and will be SecTreas again if the Elitocracy lets Obama ge installed…
You prefer Phil Gramm in that role?
I seem to remember being a whole lot better off under Clinton.
Obama may have his issues, but I'll take a Democrat running the economy over any Republican.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:38 amfuque mug shots, they should be on wanted posters…
I'd prefer the obituaries.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:48 amtokin librul Says:
Obama’s main guy is Robert Rubin, who was the Treas Sec under Clinton when the Gramm, et all abomination was germinating and then passing in the 90s.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 am
______
And if he gets the nomination for Treasury Secretary again, we need to make sure our Senators give him a nice grilling during the confirmation hearings.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 amThe Obama claim of four more years of Bush is becoming more and more truthful.
Johnny is a maverick in Bush clothes.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 amIn Bushworld the word maverick is spelled like this: more of the same.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:46 amSomeone needs to digg this.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:54 amHint to Dems: Tie McCain and Bush together as siamese twins
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 amZooey: "Those pics should be mug shots…"
Obama runs the Justice Department and many Bushies are going to jail. That's why they'll do anything to win.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 pmWater seeks its own level. These are the same thugs who got this country into the mess it is in now. They have no business anywhere near any campaign. Every one of them are challenged in one way or the other.
To the person who is not John Kerry: I'll take the 8 years of Clinton/Gore over the last 8 years of Bush/Cheney et al., any day of the week.
Facts are pesky things to the republican party.
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 pmThe real change team! Change to Bush III from Bush II.
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:38 pmI heard a snippet from a recent Obama speech in which he was joking about McCain promising to bust up the "old boys network." Obama said that on the McCain campaign, "old boys network" was a staff meeting. I thought that was funnier than hell.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:04 pmBush = REPUBLICAN
McCain = REPUBLICAN
McCain = Bush
Why is that so hard for so many Republicans to understand? Are they stupid or ignorant - or both? sheesh.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:14 pmA vote for McSame is a vote for more of what you have had the past eight years. Now are you really that stupid? If so, pull the trigger.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:51 pm#18 John Kerry.
Carter was not the one who started unraveling the safeguards of the economy...that would be the almighty Ronnie Alzheimer's Reagan, Phil Gramm, John McSame and the boys. Remember that in the past twenty eight years there has been a member of the Bush Crime Family at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, twenty years. Now if you want to place blame, look at that pocket photo of your heros you carry around. Your party has finally wrecked the US economy and you fools are too damned stupid to realize it or too damned proud to admit you have been wrong for so long. Get a life, moron, you need one.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:55 pmMacSame... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... same... (ad infinitum!)
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm"agents of change"
Indeed. They are instrumental in getting "Bushies" out of the white house by being so ridiculously bad. McCain's campaign has become a caricature of itself. There is nothing left for SNL, Daily Show, etc to parody. It's funnier just to read the newspaper.
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:01 pm