McCain's Bus Catches Up With Campaign...Crash!!!

Although McCain was not at the scene of the actual accident, the bus with his name on it was just as good, though not for the person who was hit by the "Straight-Talk" bus. Earlier today Joe Lieberman was on the McCain bus down in Miami when the driver hit another van. Needless to say, any crash with a bus is usually not so pretty.

From The Miami Herald:

The expected Republican nominee's tour bus got tangled in a traffic accident about 3 p.m. Wednesday on Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 55th Street.

No one was injured. Both vehicles were damaged, but the van got the worst of it.

Sen. McCain was not traveling on the bus when the accident occured.

The bus driver, along with Sen. Joe Lieberman and an aide, were traveling south on Biscayne when they collided with a blue van, according to Miami police.

O.K. so it was found to be the van driver's fault. The key thing is that no one was hurt in the unfortunate incident. But as for the state of the campaign, the responsibility is all at the feet of John McCain and the crooks he lets run and talk for his operation....and plenty of people are hurt by McCain's policies and when it comes to Iraq, they can be killed as well.

Is This Why McCain Touts Phil Gramm

Why John McCain likes to talk about Phil Gramm's "expertise" being added to his campaign is a ploy for the right to show he should be embraced by the Republican Party. Yet sometimes stuff like this comes out and well, gosh darn, it doesn't mesh well with that Straight Talk Expressness.

Hop On Board The Double-Talk Express

Thanks to a new spin on VH1's Pop-Up video, it looks like McCain's bus needs a new paint job to reflect what he says out on the campaign:

McCain's Bus Gets A Makeover

Ah, now that's more like it:

McCain Is Getting Off The Bus

No, not the proverbial bus of campaigning for President. He still thinks he has a shot to rebuild his run for office (though he may be the only one). The Straight-Talk Express is about to be sold and replaced with a much cheaper version. As we all know, his campaign is nearly out of money, with very little cash on hand when you include all the debts. It helped the balance sheet when most of his staff left the doomed effort, but because money is tight, there are going to have to be more cuts.

From the New York Magazine:

John McCain’s new steward of the Straight Talk Express, campaign manager Ricky Davis, says that he’s been uncovering old bills and invoices for extravagant purchases that just don’t jibe with McCain’s image as a frugal-minded maverick. Among them are whoopingly high receipts for a souped-up Straight Talk bus McCain used on the campaign trail, which came complete with flat-screen televisions and elaborate “art wrap”—the cellophane-y stuff that’s used to cover the bus with an image. “Every $10,000 counts now,” says Davis, who replaced Terry Nelson and McCain’s chief strategist, John Weaver, who resigned this summer after filings showed they steered McCain’s campaign off the road by spending too much on consultants and staff, among other things, and not doing enough fund-raising. Davis says he’s been able to balance the books a bit by focusing McCain’s bare-bones operation on three states—Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina—and finding a cheaper Straight Talk Express. “The next time we roll it out, it’ll be much more like the original version.” What did the original look like? “A piece of shit.”

Ouch! Time to tighten that belt John.