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Posted at 2:45pm on Mar. 28, 2008 McCain advisor to quit when Obama secures Dem nomination

He's got a crush and I think he should leave McCain's campaign now.

By Mark Kilmer

Last February, John McCain media advisor Mark McKinnon, a former Democrat, told his boss that he would quit the campaign if Obama were the Dem nominee.

"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's got a crush on Obama, according to this campaign's parlance. And he's not behind John McCain 100 percent, because if he were, he wouldn't go soft now or quit the campaign if Obama is the Dem nominee. Perhaps he is behind McCain 75 percent or 51 percent. Or perhaps it is a non-intenger.

In an interview published today at the National Journal, McKinnon reiterates his crush… on Obama to interviewer Linda Douglass.

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