Team McCain Crumbling

[Nbadan]

Just as some of us have predicted...

Mutiny for McCain

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Two veteran Republican strategists are abandoning John McCain's campaign in Iowa, dealing another blow to a presidential bid still reeling from a major staff shake-up earlier this week.

Ed Failor Jr., said Thursday that he and Karen Slifka plan to notify McCain by letter of their decisions. Both are GOP operatives with deep ties in Iowa, which holds the first-in-the-nation caucuses, and national politics.

"As much as I like Senator McCain, it's not a team I'm willing to stay involved with any longer," Failor said.

Once the GOP front-runner, McCain's second presidential candidacy has been foundering on all fronts. His support has dropped in national polls and his top GOP rivals, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, have easily outdistanced him in fundraising. Over the past week, he has accepted the resignations of two top aides in his national campaign, laid off more than half his staff, narrowed his strategy to three states and disclosed he had only $2 million to spend.

Failor ran the Iowa field operation for President Bush's campaign in 2004, assembling a deep campaign organization that energized social and religious conservatives. Bush narrowly won the state, the first time since 1984 that a Republican had prevailed in Iowa in the general election.

Failor also works for Iowans for Tax Relief, a conservative group that runs the state's largest political action committee.

AP

McCain backers are falling faster than former White House Staff.

McCain is done! So much for trying to resell this bull war....

[Yonivore]

That's what he gets for his McCain-Feingold abridgment of free speech and his support of amnesty for illegals.

[Nbadan]

McCain and Liebermann should team up and form the Ugly Team.

[exstatic]

McCain and Liebermann should team up and form the Ugly Team.

That's the Ugly and We'll keep troops in Iraq for another 8 years team.