I've spent a good bit of time these past few weeks beating up on Sen. Clinton for forming an alliance with the very same conservative media elites who once tried to destroy her. But its not just Clinton who is behaving this way, apparently. Take a look at the people McCain has decide to align himself with:
Doug Davenport, a founder of the DCI Group and the head of its lobbying practice, is slated to become one of the McCain campaign's ten regional campaign managers, Republicans close to the campaign said yesterday.
Many McCain allies have long believed that DCI, then called DCI Companies, provided logistical support to the operatives who ran an underground smear campaign against McCain before the South Carolina primary in 2000 -- that they they oversaw and participated in push polling that attacked McCain, Cindy McCain for her well-chronicled drug addiction, and McCain's adopted daughter Bridget.DCI Group executives have denied playing any role in that episode.
For the sake of McCain's soul, I sure hope they are telling the truth. Back in 2000, the Bush campaign aided and abetted an effort to use McCain's daughter and wife against him. For most people that would be an unpardonable sin. Before McCain's 2004 embrace of Bush, I would have thought McCain was one of those people. After 2004, I became convinced he was not. If his allies are correct about DCI, this would be another important piece of evidence that suggests I'm right.
There's also this:
Davenport's new position is certain to precipitate complaints from rivals that McCain is packing his campaign with the lobbyists whose conduct he has denounced. McCain's advisers have said that McCain's credentials as a reformer are solid and can overcome any optics problem that comes along with hiring lobbyists.
Hasn't eight years of "trust us, no matter what it looks like, we're good people, so we can do no wrong" been enough? Do we really want to re-up for another four? Really?
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