McCain Reaches Rock Bottom?

by Patrick Ruffini :: July 2nd, 2007 3:06 pm

Two numbers and a startling fact that stand out from today’s McCain news.

$2 million cash on hand.

$13 million spent for the quarter. (!!!)

They are considering taking public money.

Friends, this campaign is officially over. There is no way we are going to nominate someone who has to take public funding to take on Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama ($90M COH between them).

And on the spending… wha? Didn’t they bring in Phil Gramm to tighten the reins after spending $8 million? It’s true — they had $2-3 million in debt after last quarter, so you could argue they spent evenly over both quarters, but the number is just eye-popping — twice what I expected. Senator McCain’s quip about drunken sailors comes to mind.

Senator McCain is (was?) a lousy candidate but he had a terrific staff, many of whom I worked with at Bush-Cheney and the RNC and have the highest respect for. It’s for that reason alone that I won’t join the dancing on the grave.

But wow, just wow…

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Wes says:
McCain just has too many bad big ideas.
If the Republicans give the nation McCain as their nominee, then they can count on 8 more years of Hillary and Bill Clinton in the White House.
# July 3rd, 2007 at 4:15 am