The day after victory day, I was at the New Hampshire HQ cleaning up and helping to put things away when Bill Bloomfield, national head of volunteers for the McCain campaign, called Mary to ask if she had 4 volunteers she could recommend, the only requirement being that they have a heartbeat and maybe, but not necessarily, a brain wave. I qualified!
Bill was looking for people ASAP to work in the War Room. Honestly, how could I not jump at that? I mean, working on the New Hampshire campaign was like being introduced to the coolest drug in the world and then, on Wednesday, being asked to work where the stuff is made. I just had to do it.
I told Bill that, after spending some time with my wife, I would fly up to DC from Austin on Monday, the 14th. However, since Austin is still, in many respects, a small town, I couldn't get an early-AM flight that would get me into DC before 11 AM, which is for a campaign that promises 18-hour days, a bit late. So I chose to come up Sunday night and start early on Monday. So, here I am, at the Hyatt in Crystal City. Great hotel, btw.
But I'm not sure how much Bill and the War Room crew will take to me. For starters, Bill was less than enthusiastic when I mentioned that I would like to be able to go back home on weekends so that I could spend a bit of time with my wife. No, that definitely did not illicit a positive response. So I'm pretty sure my tenure in the War Room will be a bit less than lengthy, even though I'm more than willing to work the 18-hour day for 5-days. Mei and I have talked about me working 2 weeks and then taking a weekend off. But my feeling is that, since all the WR does is scour the web and TV for news, I can do my job either here at the headquarters or on the road. All I need is a new Eye-TV and Internet and I'm good to go.
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