McKinnon: Dems' Battle "Enormous Gift" To McCain
Mark McKinnon tells NJ Contributing Editor Linda Douglass today that the Dems’ prolonged and bitter nomination battle is “an enormous gift to John McCain." He also reiterates that he won’t make ads for McCain if Barack Obama is the nominee and calls Obama a man of great character.
A snippet of the interview:
Q: So you've said that you will leave the McCain campaign if Obama is the nominee. Does that still hold and why?
McKinnon: Yeah. Well, this goes back to a memo that I wrote to the campaign when I came aboard more than a year and a half ago, and I simply let them know that I had spent time with Obama and read his book and I like the guy. I think he has strong character and a fascinating life story, and I disagree with him fundamentally on issues like Iraq and trade and a number of others. But I just flashed forward to the improbable scenario, at that time seemingly improbable, that John McCain and Barack Obama might face off against one other. And I just told them at the time that I thought that I would be uncomfortable being on the front lines -- being as aggressive as you need to be in a presidential campaign -- and not only that I would be uncomfortable, but that it would be bad for the campaign, and that if that circumstance were to come to be, that I would just take a step to the sidelines and continue to support John McCain 100 percent and be No. 1 fan and cheerleader. But just kind of take myself out of the front lines.
Q: So you are still going to do that?
McKinnon: I'm a man of my word.
McKinnon may well be a "man of his word." Too bad for him he still can't comprehend that Obama isn't.