let the in-fighting begin

Trying out a new tack, John McCain lays into the Bush years more aggressively than he has done yet.

In response, "one of the most senior Republican strategists in the land" phones reporter Mike Allen to (anonymously) complain:

Lashing out at past Republican congresses instead of Pelosi and Reid, and echoing your opponent's attacks on you instead of attacking your opponent, and spending 150,000 hard dollars on designer clothes when congressional Republicans are struggling for money, and when your senior campaign staff are blaming each other for the loss in The New York Times [Magazine] 10 days before the election, you’re not doing much to energize your supporters.

I wonder if the caller had a Texan accent.