Advisor Says He'll Quit McCain's Campaign If Obama Nominated

By Cernig

Ouch. Bush's presidential campaign ad-maker, now with McCain, has said he'll quit if Obama wins the Democratic nomination.

A top adviser to John McCain said Wednesday that he will step down from the Arizona senator's presidential campaign if the presumed GOP nominee faces Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in the general election.

"I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama," said McCain adviser Mark McKinnon in an interview with NPR's "All Things Considered." "I think it would be uncomfortable for me, and I think it would be bad for the McCain campaign."

McKinnon, who was a Democrat before serving as President Bush's ad maker in 2000 and 2004, said that he plans to be behind McCain "100 percent" no matter who the Democratic nominee is. He explained, however, that if the Democrats nominate Obama, he will be supporting McCain "from the sidelines."

That's got to put a smile on faces at Obama HQ as they position their candidate to say that he's the best one to take on McCain.