By: Jonathan Martin

In his always must-read Granite Status column, John DiStaso today publishes some choice excerpts from emails sent by McCain New Hampshire chairman Peter Spaulding to the campaign’s top national staffers complaining about the direction of the local campaign.  

As these things always are, the complaint can be boiled down to: Us local guys know what we’re talking about and the national guys are mucking things up.

But Spaulding uses some pretty sharp language to convey his displeasure at the campaign not doing things the preferred local way.

"What idiot in Washington thought it would be a great idea in the last week of the campaign to flood New Hampshire with robo calls concerning Tony Rezko?" Spaulding wrote on October 28th.  "Didn’t the William Ayers robo calls insult enough voters?" 

And then there was a reference to a still-festering local political wound:

"Last June we were promised by the Republican National Committee and McCain HQ’s that we would be consulted on campaign strategy in New Hampshire. I guess that promise was as empty as the head of the person responsible for creating political strategy in New Hampshire. What can we expect next — phone jamming calls on election day? Thanks guys."

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