The WSJ reports:
Political ad-makers Russ Schriefer and Stuart Stevens, veterans of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, on Monday emailed the new campaign manager — lobbyist and longtime McCain adviser Rick Davis — to say that they were quitting.
…Since Mr. McCain accepted the resignations of former campaign manager Terry Nelson and chief strategist John Weaver two weeks ago, and put Mr. Davis in charge, more than a dozen senior staffers have left from the headquarters in northern Virginia as well as state offices in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — all states with early nominating contests. Several fund-raisers have cut their ties to the campaign, which reported a debt at the end of the second quarter.
Read the whole thing. (The WSJ’s inset drawing of Sen. McCain strikes me as particularly unflattering.)
McCain’s term doesn’t expire until 2010, so his meltdown may have come too early to encourage prospective primary challengers.
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I’ll be semi surprised if he runs again, or even lives until then. He’s old, and not in the best of health.