McCain Taps Bush Campaign Official To Run His Campaign, Bringing Us Full Circle

Every single day McCain moves closer and closer to Bush. He already supported the majority of Bush's disastrous policies, and the ones he didn't support he flip-flopped on until he supported them. Now McCain's policies are essentially the same as Bush's, and in some cases worse. He has also surrounded himself with Bush's loyalists, notably saying that he would love for Cheney to play a major role in his administration. The day before yesterday it was announced that former top Bush-Cheney campaign official and Rove-spawn Steve Schmidt is going to "take over the day-to-day operation of John McCain's campaign", essentially becoming McCain's campaign manager. The old guy kind of got the Mark Penn treatment--he is still around, but doesn't matter as much. It is funny that they decided to shakeup his campaign, as if the reason he is so far behind Obama is because of [former?] campaign manager Rick Davis, and not because he embraces Bush's horrible (and greatly unpopular) policies, or because he is running against a much stronger candidate, or because he is about as exciting and inspiring as a lump of tapioca pudding, and kind of looks the part. Anyway, you can expect more unchecked aggression out of the McCain campaign now, because Schmidt has a reputation for it.

I have a feeling this is only the first of many campaign shakeups, as McCain gets more and more desperate the closer we get to November and the farther he falls behind Obama in the polls.