That Rick Davis rascal

It seems John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis is at it again, undermining John McCain's message with his decades of dealings. You might know the drill by now. John McCain decries some form of lobbying or shady dealing. Then later that same day it is revealed he has 30 guys on staff who advocated and lobbied for the thing McCain now hates.

The most recent version is that McCain tried to blame Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the subprime mortgage fiasco your future is currently being fucked by. Everything was the fault of Fannie and Freddie because Barack Obama could be loosely tied to one of their former CEO's. Here we are today, and it turns out that Rick Davis took $30,000 a month for five years to lobby for Fannie and Freddy against stricter regulation. John McCain looks like a dope again.

That's the problem with hiring a cadre of lobbyists to run your campaign, John. Whenever you want to stretch your bullshit maverick wings they always get tangled by the fact that you are surrounded by guys with concrete ties to whatever you decided you hate today. That's even if anyone has to take a second step beyond your own record, which is usually in direct opposition to the thing you now hate. Just for future reference, if tomorrow we find out there is a company that presses small, cute children through a fine mesh screen to liquefy them for fun and profit, Rick Davis will have lobbied on their behalf for a large sum of money. Don't fire up the ad blaming Obama for it, you'll just regret it later.