McCain continues total allegiance to Bush on Iraq as his campaign disintegrates

Great timing. McCain is on the floor of the Senate spinning the Bush line about "progress" in Iraq and his two top, long-time aides "quit" the sinking campaign:

Republican John McCain's top two aides quit his struggling presidential bid on Tuesday, dealing a sharp blow to the Arizona senator and casting the future of his 2008 campaign in doubt.

The campaign announced the resignations of manager Terry Nelson and longtime chief strategist John Weaver while McCain was on the Senate floor defending President George W. Bush's strategy in Iraq.

"I believe that our military in cooperation with Iraqi security forces is making progress in a number of areas. In other areas they are not," McCain said as the Senate launched a new debate on the future of the increasingly unpopular Iraq war.

McCain, who visited Iraq last week, has been Bush's biggest Republican Senate ally on Iraq and on an immigration bill that died last week, costing the one-time front-runner support among both moderates and core Republicans.

Ironic. In 2000, the Bush team destroyed McCain's presidential aspirations by running a fiercely negative campaign against him. In 2008, the Bush team destroyed McCain's presidential aspirations because the Senator remained fiercely loyal to the failed policies of the failed presidency of George Bush. George Bush is primary reason John McCain will never be President. Although, John McCain himself deserves a lot of credit, too.