While the mob wrings its hands because Barack Obama is sticking to his moderate stance on most issues, it fails to notice that the John McCain campaign is imploding.

The man has been the presumptive nominee of his party for months; enjoyed weeks and weeks of uncritical media time while Clinton and Obama competed for the Democratic title; knows the Republican convention is Sept. 1; yet he still hasn’t put together a team that works. Worse, according to the New York Times, he surrounds himself with strong personalities he can’t summon the guts to fire, regardless of their performance or ability. Sounds like the Current Occupant.

Senator John McCain’s campaigns have long been defined by internal squabbling and power plays, zigzagging lines of command and a penchant by the candidate for consulting with former advisers without alerting current ones, always a recipe for disquiet.

After a period of relative calm on that score, it is becoming clear that his campaign is once again a swirl of competing spheres of influence, clusters of friends, consultants and media advisers who represent a matrix of clashing ambitions and festering feuds…

Mr. McCain is uncomfortable firing people or banishing them entirely. His orbit remains filled with people who have been demoted without being told they are being demoted…

The prospect of a McCain White House, where no one is accountable because no one is responsible, might be one reason fund raising isn’t going so well. Things are especially bad in Florida, once a virtual Republican ATM.

Of the 55 Floridians the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign designated as top fundraisers, either “Pioneers” who brought in at least $100,000 or “Rangers” who raised at least $200,000, only 20 have written their own check to the McCain campaign, a St. Petersburg Times analysis found.

“I don’t recall getting a phone call from anybody from the campaign saying, ‘Where are you?’ ” said Robert Coker, senior vice president of U.S. Sugar Corp. in Clewiston, who raised more than $100,000 for Bush-Cheney in 2004…

That’s because the McCain folks probably aren’t sure whose job it is to make those calls. Even Jeb Bush is MIA. His check to McCain was for $1,000, far short of the $2,300 individual limit.

Meanwhile, Democratic voters debate whether it’s more important to produce a FISA reauthorization bill that would allow fines on telecommunications company for past cooperation with Bush administration mandates, or one that protects civil liberties going forward, as Obama supports. Priorities, I guess, are all in the eye of the beholder.