McCain New York Times scandal a goldmine

If you think about it, this whole situation is a win-win for McCain. The base consolidates behind him because they hate the New York Times more than they could possibly hate a liberal Republican. There is suddenly a new and effective rallying cry to induce McCain supporters to donate.

It's so perfect, you have to wonder if there are some people on his campaign who wished they'd engineered it.

"In other news, the McCain campaign says the fundraising email sent out yesterday that described the New York Times story as a 'smear campaign' was its most successful fundraising email to date, but the campaign declined to say how much it raised.

Senior adviser Steve Schmidt said in response to questions, 'There was a lot of outrage across the country on the story and the campaign has raised a lot of money in the last 24 hours.'"

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