Advisors Worry About "Grumpy McCain"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14364.html

also at www.talkingpointsmemo.com

(It's not easy being a slimebucket...)

When Politico’s Ryan Grim approached Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) after the evening of the Senate bailout vote, the reporter didn’t even get his question out.

“Excuse me, you’re bothering me,” McCain said.

It was a surprising rebuke from a politician who once was famous for palling around with reporters, and who was so media-friendly that he was sometimes known as “the senator from ‘Meet the Press.’”

But what friends call “grumpy McCain” is showing up regularly on the campaign trail, and several top advisers worry that it’s hurting his campaign by making him appear peevish and hunkered down when the country is looking for a larger and more optimistic brand of leadership.

After his first debate with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), both spectators in the hall and commentators on TV noted that McCain had deliberately avoided looking at his rival.

A close McCain friend said the reason is clear: McCain is miserable about having to run a campaign that’s antithetical to his persona.

“He is basically having to be somebody that he isn’t,” said the friend, who remains strongly supportive. “He is just not a guy that goes on the attack in public. For him to be on the attack constantly, attacking Obama’s character … McCain is uncomfortable with that, and it’s made him grumpy.”
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How will we ever endure four years of "Get Off My Lawn You Damn Kids!" Ken and "Kill a Commie for Christ" Barbie?
:banghead:

I want steam to rise from his head like a cartoon! I just hope Obama can get under his skin and this election will be ovah!

yelled "terrorist". He thought about being disgusted for a brief moment, but then shook it off and kept going.

He decided long ago that if you can't beat 'em join 'em. He decided that he was going to do whatever it took, including becoming the person that he said there was a special place in hell for.

He decided he would be a swiftboat liar. He deluded himself into thinking he could do this, and then go back to being the person of integrity and honor that he believes he is.

it contrary to how he would like to run it then that says a bit about him that is negative. One, he is too weak willed to follow his own beliefs and do it his way. Two, he gets grumpy/mean when he can't/won't do things his own way. Just what we need another overgrown two year old throwing temper tantrums when he can't do things his own way and is too weak willed to not follow the orders of others. What a maverick.

After reading that series of articles from the Arizona Republic, McCain has been mean-spirited his entire political career--probably long before. I remember reading how he deliberately set up the Democratic governor of Arizona in a Senate hearing to make her look dumb. Afterward, when asked why he had done it, he just grinned and said that he'd try to embarrass a Democrat any chance he got.

He's been a prick all along, he's just had a lot of enablers around him.

What a despicable creep.

Diane

"Tales of the hunt will glorify the hunter until lions have their own historians."--African proverb

His Media "nice guy" persona was always an act.

Maybe his Depends© are too tight or too full.

... that’s antithetical to his persona.

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Poor Johnny.

:eyes:

Bull-SHIT! He's always been a mean, nasty fuckhead with the temper control of a volcano.

"For him to be on the attack constantly, attacking Obama’s character … McCain is uncomfortable with that, and it’s made him grumpy."

Well then he should put oh, I don't know, COUNTRY FIRST and just accept that he's not the person Americans want to lead them right now! What a bunch of putrid baloney.

and would be calling the shots. If we are to believe this article, Jonny Mac is nothing but a vessel for the movers and shakers in the party - a puppet, a pawn, and a poser.

tout à fait franc-tireur

mikey_the_rat

he decided to pander to his base rather than run as the moderate Independent he built his reputation on.

From his position reversals on tax cuts through drilling, his choice of the Alaskan Bimbo, his cutting off and abusing his friends in the Media and his joyless Rovian strategy, he has wasted literally decades of building a successful and marketable brand to become a grumpy, flip flopping negative shit head.

Obama got lucky twice that both the Clintons and McCain made some awful, awful decisions about how to run their campaigns and pick their advisors.