Mark McKinnon is Old Man McCain’s most beloved media adviser. When you’re running for president, it’s important to have the kind of loyal top staffers who will support you at all costs. That’s why McKinnon is telling the media that he’ll quit McCain’s campaign if Obama is the Democratic nominee. Wait, what?
McKinnon told NPR that he’ll just have to bail on McCain because Obama will be such a great president:
“I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama,” said McCain adviser Mark McKinnon in an interview with NPR’s All Things Considered. “I think it would be uncomfortable for me, and I think it would be bad for the McCain campaign.”
That’s the kind of faithful friend you really need when you’re headed for a General Election you can’t possibly win — and McKinnon is just the man for quitting the job, as he’s a “former” Democrat who worked for George W. Bush during the brutal 2000 primary battle against … John McCain.
McCain Adviser Won’t Fight Obama [ABC News]
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why doesn't he just stay on and advice mccain to quit if obama gets the dem nomination?
would save everyone a lot of hassle.
That's not a man, that's a man-shaped melting candle.
It looks like the late night "fluoride" dosing of the water supply is working.
Christ, even ex-Demrats fear Unicorns more than Waterboarding Flip Floppers.
If he were a serious Obama supporter, then he should have hung in there until about, say Nov 2 or 3, then make this announcement.
I like the Brokeback Windbreaker look.
"And if McCain insists on fighting the terrists, I'm gonna have to cheer from the sidelines on that one, too."
and is that william h. macy in the trooper hat in that picture?
is it a still from coen brother's movie with mccain as the cranky old biz man?
I occasionally enjoy a kind of thought experiment whereby I imagine the Democratic party running Jesus as its presidential candidate, and then try to imagine how the Republican party would adjust its rhetoric and election strategy to meet the challenge.
I'm starting to think that it may be a thought experiment no more.
This is the first step in a complicated plot on the part of Hilly's campaign which is designed to remind voters that she's not the only candidate who has zero chance of defeating Barry.
Wait a minute, Wonkette: What's up with the ABC News attribution for this story? You mean you don't listen to NPR all afternoon? You should, it's comedy gold.
@V572625694: I quit listening to NPR when they dropped "The Delicious Dish."
... wait... you mean that was a parody?
OK, this isn't half as bad as it sounds for McCain. This is what he should do. Endorse Obama. Then run ads saying "Obama is endorsed by that nutty Senator McCain who wants to keep us in Iraq for 100 years. Vote for the other guy"
McKinnon wears a man purse. Just thought you all might like to know that.
I was feeling kind of bad about McCain until he sold out everything he ever stood for by voting for waterboarding. That was the moment that I said, fuck everyone, Barry is our savior.
Urban Cowboy and Whore Extraordinaire McKinnon needs to start a new group: "Whores for McCain, or Maybe Obama, or wait, maybe that guy"
what's will all this waterboarding and mccain stuff. just because he's old you think he can't go surfing?
If William H. Macy and Don Imus had a love child on top of Brokeback Mountain, it would be the man in that picture.
finally, a guy who thinks with his wallet and not his ethics.
@Harvey Birdman: John, apparently I do know how to q
So, we have McCain, then The Rocket, and now McKinnon. Is this fucking "mercenary" day on Wonkette?
. . .uit you. Oops.
If Marilyn Manson and Uncle Fester from the Addams family had a love child, it would look exactly like Walnuts.
@Serolf Divad: But there's still "This I Believe" and "Story Corps." Lame beyond snarkability. Joan Kroc gives 'em all that money and this is what they use it for?
There's Hillary camp turmoil, now a possible McCain camp quitter. Is Barack scaring the opposition that much?
Maybe these people just wish they were on the Obama bandwagon from the start.
@Serolf Divad:
"I occasionally enjoy a kind of thought experiment whereby I imagine the Democratic party running Jesus as its presidential candidate, and then try to imagine how the Republican party would adjust its rhetoric and election strategy. . . ."
This makes me think of the scene in "The Brothers Karamazov" where Jesus meets the Grand Inquisitor.
I think it was Rove initially and then several others grabbed onto the theme. The are not scared of Obama, they are scared of the "movement" he has become. You to, like me, can become part of it. We welcome you to the dome of the endless sun...
@Obamaton: Speaking of Rove, it sounds like he's working for the Obama campaign. McCain's team hasn't run around with its tail between its legs like this since 2000.
**Ooops! Another one jumps off the John McCrazy's Straightjacket Express.
@YourDoctrinaire: he used to carry one of those biker wallets with a chain. but he switched to a manpurse after he was smitten by george bush (look it up).
@Serolf Divad: mmmm. Good times. Good times.
Or he could have just voted for him...
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