http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/opinion/07kristol.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/us/politics/03manage.html?sq=mccain%20...

To the editor:

William Kristol acknowledges that John McCain's campaign is in trouble
(Op-Ed, 7/7) without admitting the obvious: John McCain is clueless as
an administrator of a large organization, despite his claims to
"experience" and "leadership." McCain has now reorganized his campaign
for a fifth time since the start of the primary campaign (NY Times,
7/3). I conclude from this campaign chaos that McCain makes poor choices
as his campaign subordinates, that he either has no personal strategic
vision for the campaign, or that he is unable to communicate or to
implement a coherent campaign strategy.

Kristol now suggests a sixth reorganization under consultant Mike
Murphy. Sadly, this will not aid in establishing the candidate's goals
or in developing coherent leadership from the candidate himself.
Kristol's appeal is apparently to the Rove model of campaign strategy --
presuming that the candidate has no real ideas of his own, and must
subsume his persona and policies to the ideas of his powerful campaign
manager. I am afraid we have already seen what such a model has already
done for the United States under George W. Bush. It has reduced our
country to a second-rate finanacial power, and may have reduced our
armed forces to the exhausted and depleted levels of Praetorian Rome.

Keep up the good work, Kristol.

Ben Burrows
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