McCain’s Chief Media Adviser Calls it Quits

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John McCain’s chief media adviser and longtime GOP mainstay, Mark McKinnon, kept his word and announced earlier this evening that he is stepping down from his position with McCain. McKinnon said last year that he would leave McCain’s campaign after the primary season if the Arizona senator were to run against Obama.

McKinnon made this decision on the basis that he couldn’t bring himself to work against Barack Obama and everything that he stands for, regardless of party affiliation.

In a 2007 interview with Cox News, McKinnon said he would vote for McCain, but:

“I just don’t want to work against an Obama candidacy.” He added that if Obama were to reach the White House, it “would send a great message to the country and the world.”

The McCain campaign says McKinnon will remain a “major supporter” of the McCain’s presidential bid.

While Barack Obama is not yet the “official” Democratic nominee, as of tonight he has in fact accumulated a significant lead in the popular vote, states won, and has clinched the majority of pledged delegates won, subsequently giving him the number of delegates required to claim the nomination.

I have to say that this was a classy move on the behalf of McKinnon, not because he left a republican because of the Democrat running, rather that he showed he is a man of his word. I would be saying the same thing if a member of Obama’s staff made a similar pledge regarding a McCain nomination, and then kept his word, and steeped aside as promised. It’s somewhat sad that act of honesty, and one keeping their word has somehow become “major news” in the world of politics.