McCain’s Base Starting To Crumble

McCain campaign threatened to cut off Newsweek’s access.

Earlier this week, after Newsweek published a cover story examining the hardball tactics conservatives might use in the general election, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) “true partner” and longest-serving aide, Mark Salter, fired off a stinging retort that accused the magazine of being “biased.” Today, a Wall Street Journal profile of Salter reveals that he also “threatened to throw the magazine’s reporters off the campaign bus and airplane“:

I think because he’s gone green McCain is looking for excuses to get smaller planes. When it gets it down to using Denny Hasterts old plane, then IMO things will be just about right.