McCain senior advisor Scheunemann fired for "trashing" staff

By GottaLaff

D'oh! There go the Republicans eating their own again:

Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain, was fired from the Arizona senator's campaign last week for what one aide called "trashing" the campaign staff, three senior McCain advisers tell CNN.

One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining that he had been in direct contact with journalists spreading "disinformation" about campaign aides, including Nicolle Wallace and other officials.

"He was positioning himself with Palin at the expense of John McCain's campaign message," said one of the aides.

Can we call him Rogue Randy now? Huh? Can we? Huh? Huh? ::jumping up and down, clapping::

Senior campaign officials blame Schuenemann specifically for stories about the way Wallace and chief campaign strategist Steve Schmidt mishandled Palin's rollout — stories that the campaign says threw them off message in the critical final weeks of the campaign.

Ohhh, so that's what threw them off. I thought it was their entire platform combined with a nasty, hateful, vicious strategy. Silly moi.

But good for them for firing Rogue Randy for pallin' around with Palin when it could have been for something trivial, like say.... lobbying for Georgia while advising their candidate. Once again, their stunning judgment is trumped only by their wisdom, fine taste, and stellar character.