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03 Jul 2008 12:43 am
The McCain Overhaul
Ambers' take:
In the year and a half since McCain and Schmidt first got to know
each other, the two have grown close, almost like father and son; each
very deferential to the other. Schmidt has taught McCain how to be John
McCain, the Republican presidential candidate -- a different creature
from just plain ol' John McCain. Schmidt is a partisan pugilist. He
speaks in pre-fabricated, consumable, sharp morsels. McCain has learned
from Schmidt that it's OK not to be a referre,, that it's OK not to
play the judge, that it's OK to draw contrasts with your opponents. And
McCain, for a variety of reasons, has come to trust Schmidt's judgment...
There was an acknowledgment, I am told, that the campaign had not
sufficiently scaled up to fight against what is the best-run, best
organized Democratic campaign in the history of the universe.
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