John McCain campaign manager Rick Davis appeared on MSNBC yesterday and acted like a crazy person, launching attack after incoherent attack on Democratic rival Barack Obama, especially that race card shit. Andrea Mitchell handled the insanity well and even allowed a chuckle when, at the end of the interview, Davis snapped, ""I'm happy to talk about the substantive issues the next time I'm on your program." Mitchell then described Davis as a celebrity - which is the biggest insult in the McCain lexicon. [HuffPo]

"The McCain campaign and Republican Party have nearly $95 million cash on hand combined for use in the presidential race, campaign manager Rick Davis said Thursday. He said the McCain camp had more than $27 million, and the Republican National Committee has more than $67 million… Obama has not released financial numbers through the month of June. At the end of May, he reported more than $43 million available on hand, but the Democratic National Committee has not raised as much as its Republican counterpart." [MSNBC]

"Senator John McCain's presidential campaign has gone through its second shake-up in a year. Responding to Republican concern that his candidacy was faltering, McCain put a veteran of President George W. Bush's 2004 campaign in charge of day-to-day operations and stepped away from a plan to have the campaign run by 11 regional managers, McCain's aides said Wednesday. The elevation at McCain's headquarters of Steve Schmidt - who worked closely with the Bush adviser Karl Rove - represented a sharp diminishment of the responsibilities of Rick Davis, who has been McCain's campaign manager since the last shake-up nearly a year ago." [IHT]