More Shark Jumping

Sam Stein has a good vetting of the McCain campaign's latest assault on the New York Times over at Huffington. Here's my favorite sentence from McCain's official blogger:

Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization.

However, as Stein reports, Goldfarb may have a--as in one, a single--point: Rick Davis hasn't been on Davis Manafort's payroll, hasn't received his equity payments, for several years. Which raises this question: Why was Davis Manafort getting $15,000 month, if the guy doing the, uh, consulting, wasn't, uh, consulting? Oh, the ways of Washington!

In the end, the lobbyist-riddled atmosphere of the McCain campaign--given the candidate's recent Huey Longified ranting against power brokers--is more important than any single transgression. The sheer transparency of McCain's economic hyper-transformation is staggering. The recent poll shift--slight, and reversible--toward Obama seems to be driving the McCain camp nuts.