McCain's Media Mastermind Will Quit if Obama Is Nominated

[depakid]

An interesting take- particularly if you read between the lines. If the author is to be believed, McKinnon knows what's coming- and doesn't want to be part of it. Shades of Lee Atwater? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater

"If you're a Democratic primary voter in Ohio, Texas or Pennsylvania, and you're still torn between Obama and the Clintons, here's the best reason I know to throw your support to Obama: Mark McKinnon.

Love him or hate him, there's general agreement that McKinnon -- the chief media adviser and strategist for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain -- is a genius at what he does. So it's no surprise that, even though it's relatively old 'news,' word that McKinnon will stop working for McCain if Obama is the Democratic nominee has been freshly burning up cyberspace of late.

Citing his admiration for the Illinois senator, McKinnon says he cannot face being part of a campaign that "would inevitably be attacking" Obama. "I have met Barack Obama. I have read his book. I like him a great deal, he told National Public Radio. "I disagree with him on very fundamental issues, but it would be uncomfortable for me, and it would be bad for the McCain campaign."

More: http://www.alternet.org/election08/77346/

[Occam Bandage]

1. It reminds me of the '04 IL Senate race. The Republicans

can all see that it's going to be a massacre, and nobody wants to put their career on the line against Obama.

[depakid]

8. I don't think you're reading between the lines....

[Occam Bandage]

9. Somehow I don't buy the line

that this guy is too honorable to fight a negative campaign against Obama--but, say, wouldn't mind the campaign they'd wage against HRC.

[depakid]

12. Clinton hatred goes WAY back- the far right has literally spent billions

demonizing her.

And- lo and behold!

They got a return on their investment. Her negatives (fair or not) are so high that her chances of winning in November rest on either a McCain implosion- or an economic meltdown that leaves folks pining hard for the illusory "good old days" of the 90's.

[Occam Bandage]

14. Oh, I certainly agree. He thinks they can beat HRC, and he'll look competent. He thinks

they can't beat BHO, so why bother putting his reputation on the line?

[depakid]

17. Take off the Occam bandage for a moment and think a little deeper

Obama is vulnerable in ways that Hillary isn't. The mud they'll sling at her is old news- and what's stuck has already stuck.

What the Obama campaign is in for will be exponentially worse than anything we've seen in the past- and some of us have seen a LOT of outrages.

Not long back, DU'ers used to call what you're about to see "The Mighty Wulitzer."

Make no mistake- it's evil and diagusting- and in America- effective.

If you all aren't up for that- if you think high roads "lead to the Whitehouse," well, let's just say it's going to be a long 8 months....

[Occam Bandage]

18. And you're kidding yourself if you think that

McCain-Obama will be nastier than McCain-Clinton, and this guy just doesn't have the stomach for it. You aren't reading between the lines, you're reading it on its face.

[depakid]

19. Some things can't be taught

Ya just have to live through- be a part of- and observe and remember.

You'll find out soon enough.

[sellitman]

2. He also hates losing in a landslide.

It would stink up his resume.

He just can't say this out loud so he publishes the story above.

[polpilot]

7. Obama has ALL the cards and will be playing them. You want war...vote Repub. You want NAFTA

vote Repub. You want your kids dying in the desert trying to kill dark skinned people vote Repub. You want to watch your bridges and roads collapsing vote Repub. You want the world turning their back on the U.S.A. because of empire building and pro-torture policies Vote Repub.

[ingac70]

11. BINGO. n/t

[H2O Man]

3. Mark Penn

will have a new job.

[Lerkfish]

15. lol, that may be the job he's already working on

certainly he's done his level best to lose the nomination for Clinton

[Sensitivity]

4. Will he be joining the Republican wing of the Obama campaign??

[Lerkfish]

16. I think your username is ironic.

:)

[anamandujano]

5. And Bin Laden shall lay down his arms.

Yup, everything is going to fall right into place. I can see it now.

[mohc]

6. McCain has a media mastermind?

Is he in any way involved in the decisions to hold his 100 people victory rallies on the same nights Democrats are holding 20,000 people rallies? Does he tell McCain to "go out there and bore them to tears" before every speech? The only and only media advantage that McCain has is that the press fell in love with him in 2000, and they have not figured out how deranged he's become.

[depakid]

10. True enough- yet the modus operandi is to repeat the easy narrative

After all, it's already been written and reinforced, and if my observations are ane any indication, otherwise reasonable people still believe it.

[Ian David]

13. McCain Campaign Push-Poll asks, "Did you know Barack Obama had a black baby?"

Finally, a Republican who has the decency to acknowledge his indecency and to set a limit on how he uses it.