The McCain Camp: "Nuh-uh, it's your fault"

Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad

With despair rising even among many of John McCain’s own advisers, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering — much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.

A McCain interview published Thursday in The Washington Times sparked the latest and most nasty round of finger-pointing, with senior GOP hands close to President Bush and top congressional aides denouncing the candidate for what they said was an unfocused message and poorly executed campaign.

It's funny how these year long circle jerks always turn violent at the end, becoming some circular firing squad of bewildered old men, pants around their ankles, wondering what the hell just happened and knowing, deep down, that it is everyone else's fault. For those of you counting, this is the second "What the fuck just happened" McCain post-mortem where disbelieving McCain staffers talk about why they lost.....two weeks out. NYT Magazine had the first.

Both seem to have no idea why the six different McCain reboots and campaign narratives didn't seem to take hold. Why credit grubbing while doing nothing during a crisis failed to ignite the campaign. Why a campaign focused on winning the day had some many problems constructing a cogent narrative for the fall. Why a campaign that constantly contradicted itself had trouble making a case against Obama. Why a total erratic lack of discipline looked so bad during a time of crisis. But rest assured, it was totally someone else's fault and they're willing to tell you in excruciating detail 12 days out so you don't get the wrong idea and blame the wrong guy.

"Election? What's that? The important thing now is blame. It was all Rick Davis, let me give you an audio recording of him pushing for Palin and the campaign suspension. He forced us."