Just as McCain was about to come back from the dead, he seems to want to go straight back across the River Styx. Yesterday he made headlines when a supporter referred to Hillary as "the bitch." Activists can be heated at times, but candidates should dismiss that type of hateful nonsense. Instead, he blew it up and agreed with his elderly, yet riled supporter. Then his campaign took it to a whole other level.
From The Huffington Post:
....On Tuesday, CNN's Rick Sanchez raised the question of whether McCain should have admonished the woman, and McCain's campaign criticized that criticism on Wednesday.
"Most people who have seen it are looking at it as a real mistake on his part in terms of the way he handled it," Sanchez said on the cable network's "Out in the Open."
McCain's South Carolina campaign manager, Buzz Jacobs, said in a statement Wednesday: "It not only reflects poorly on him, but on CNN. If Mr. Sanchez had even the faintest perspective on the race for the White House, he would know that Senator McCain has expressed his utmost respect for Senator Clinton numerous times on the campaign trail, as he did at Monday's event in Hilton Head."
Hours later, the McCain campaign was using the controversy to raise money for his candidacy.
Campaign manager Rick Davis e-mailed supporters, saying, "We are asking you to help us fight Rick Sanchez and CNN and stand with John McCain. Please make your most generous contribution from $25 up to the maximum limit of $2,300 to the only candidate who can defeat Hillary Clinton."
Usually it is the campaign on the receiving end that raises money off of goofs like these, not by the offender. I guess McCain is doing anything out of the ordinary to at least keep his face in the spotlight. It is pretty sad that this is what he has to stoop to in order to get that accomplished.
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