Politico: Another Top McCain Official Resigns

[featherman]

"Former Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler, a Texan who is among the McCain campaign’s most important advisers and fundraisers, has resigned as a national co-chair over lobbying entanglements, a Republican source told Politico on Sunday.

It’s at least the fifth lobbying-related departure from the campaign in a week.

The McCain campaign, already facing the prospect of being badly outgunned in the general election, now also must cope with the disruption of the lobbying shakeout.

The McCain campaign’s stringent approach to the issue is provoking a bit of grumbling from some of its Washington allies, who point out that a lobbyist’s function is enshrined in the Constitution."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10428.html

[saltpoint]

1. Pretty soon there won't be enough people in McCain headquarters to

play bridge.

[PleaseSayItAintSo]

5. Bridge to nowhere? n/t

[saltpoint]

6. LOL! Yes! I think you've just hit on the McCain 2008 campaign slogan!

JOHN McCAIN -- BRIDGE TO NOWHERE.

[PleaseSayItAintSo]

8. LOL. Maybe we should register the trademark? n/t

[kenny blankenship]

9. shuffleboard to nowhere

[ErinBerin84]

2. I'm an Obama supporter, but one thing I will say...

is that whenever Hillary Clinton has staff shakeups, the press (MSM) is all over it...why not McCain? Well, I guess I know the answer to my own question. And if Obama was having similar staff shakeups, that would be all over the press as well. I haven't seen anything about McCain's campaign departures in the MSM, only on places like politico and Huffington post.

[NightWatcher]

3. because the MSM is still covering the Obama vs Hillary war

As soon as she goes away, everyone will finaly focus on the real battle- McCain v. Obama. THIS is the distraction that Hillary is providing.

[quantass]

7. +1

I do notice the media slowly starting to focus more attention on McCain these days and less about Hillary....its growing...as you said, when she drops out the msm will focus al their attention on McCain and Obama exclusively.

I dont think most realize McCain's seirous gaffe about going to Iraq exclusively for the oil and nothing more. At least we have video

[RichardRay]

4. NPR has been running a story this morning highlighting

this set of debacles. They menion Penn at the end, but only in passing. Mostly it is about McCain's problems in this area and how his involvement with McCain-Feingold makes him especially vulnerable in this area.