Cue the fat lady

John McCain’s moribund candidacy is broke, foundering, and hemorrhaging staffers. Today, the campaign manager and chief strategist resigned. McCain can’t raise money and has alienated too many voting blocs for this campaign to be viable. He infuriated the nativist conservatives with his support of the immigration bill. The religious Right never trusted him so getting their full support was a long shot anyway. And the thing that made a McCain bid so daunting, his ability to garner support from Independents and conservative Democrats, has been destroyed by his blind support for the war in Iraq. At this point, there is no way he can bring those voters into the fold. The Straight Talk thing is just not working anymore.

This campaign is done, over, fini. Someone just needs to tell the candidate.

UPDATE: It looks like the staffers were fired and his chief of staff left as well.