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It’s The Old Boys Club...McCain Appoints Wealthy Texan To Head Campaign

Posted by Mike Gehrke on August 9, 2007 at 11:27 AM

John "Republican Establishment" McCain appoints an old Bush crony to be his campaign manager:

Arizona Sen. John McCain, continuing to try to jumpstart his indebted presidential campaign, will name renowned Republican fund-raiser Robert Mosbacher Sr. as campaign chairman, according to a prominent Republican.

The wealthy 80-year-old Texan is close to the first President Bush, suggesting to Republicans that the former president could be behind the move. Mosbacher was the elder Bush’s Commerce secretary, finance chairman of his 1980 and 1988 presidential campaigns and general chairman of the 1992 Bush campaign. For both Bush and President Reagan, he was a major fund-raiser.