John McCain Articles 12/21/07

Boston Herald: Choice Is Clear: McCain’s The One
Editorial

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1056010&format=text

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Keene Sentinel (NH): John McCain
Editorial

http://www.sentinelsource.com/main.asp?SectionID=43&SubSectionID=105&ArticleID=173653

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Union Leader: New McCain Ad A Personal Tale Of Christmas Spirit
By John DiStaso

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=New+McCain+ad+a+personal+tale+of+Christmas+spirit&articleId=c30bd51b-c816-4028-bfce-0c1ccf5ff6f9

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Associated Press: Boston Herald Endorses McCain
http://www.star-telegram.com/464/v-print/story/372263.html

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Union Leader: ARG Poll: McCain In Dead Heat With Romney
By John DiStaso

http://unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=ARG+poll%3a+McCain+in+dead+heat+with+Romney&articleId=46545ea4-4e82-4b0b-95ee-3d1fa1b9714c

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Reuters: McCain Jumps In New Hampshire Poll
By Deborah Charles

http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USN2021269420071220

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Arizona Republic’s McCain Central Blog: Fox News Poll: Three-Way For National GOP Lead
By Dan Nowicki

http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/DanNowicki/13107

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The McCain Scenario
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/CampaignStandard/2007/12/richelieu_the_mccain_scenario_1.asp

McCain Articles 12/20/07

ABC News’ Political Radar Blog: Kissinger: McCain Best For 'Difficult And Complicated' Times By Bret Hovell Henry
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/kissinger-mccai.html

New York Sun: In A Rare Move, Kissinger Endorses McCain By Seth Gitell
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=68421&v=2408418911

Union Leader: Polls Show McCain Gains By Garry Rayno
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Polls+show+McCain+gains&articleId=3e6505e5-9ace-4844-afec-c09d34f03ea7

Arizona Republic’s McCain Central Blog: McCain On The Move In New Hampshire By Dan Nowicki
http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/DanNowicki/13044

Boston Herald: Meanwhile, McCain Might Pull A Lazarus Act By Wayne Woodlief
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1054894

Romney's migration: He shouldn't need to lie

From the Union Leader - http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Romney%27s+migration%3a+He+shouldn%27t+need+to+lie&articleId=916a6347-2df9-4199-9050-1e684d0a0f7e

Romney's migration: He shouldn't need to lie

REPUBLICANS, please identify which of your presidential candidates said the following:

"We're not going to round up 12 million people and send them out of the country."

John McCain? No, Mitt Romney, saying in May that he would deport some but not all illegals -- which is also John McCain's position.

Please identify which of your presidential candidates said this:

"They require people signing up for, registering and receiving, if you will, a number, a registration number, then working here for six years and paying taxes, not taking benefits -- health, Medicaid, food stamps -- and so on, not taking benefits, and then at the end of that period, registering to become a citizen or applying to become a citizen and paying a fee. And those are things that are being considered. I think those are reasonable proposals."

John McCain? No, Mitt Romney -- supporting John McCain's position on immigration in 2005.

Earlier this month Romney sent a flyer to New Hampshire households stating that McCain would grant Social Security benefits to illegal aliens. That is a lie. Both McCain and Romney would grant benefits to immigrants only after they receive citizenship.

If Republicans are voting for Mitt Romney because they think he would be tougher on illegal immigration than John McCain would be, they need to explain how Romney suddenly switched from supporting McCain's position just two years ago to attacking it (with distortions) this year.

And don't get us started on Rudy Giuliani, who has said time and again that as mayor of New York he only supported deporting illegals who were criminals. Mr. Mayor, they're all criminals. That's where the word "illegal" comes from.

The fact is, neither Romney nor Giuliani nor McCain has a pure conservative record on immigration. The difference is, Republicans know for sure that McCain isn't hiding his true position. The same cannot be said of Romney and Giuliani.

McCain Media 12/14/07

Salmon Press (NH): New Hampshire’s Salmon Press Endorses Sen. John McCain http://www.salmonpress.com/118241.112113body.lasso

John McCain Articles 12/12/07

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/1212wed1-12.html

Arizona Republic: Listen To McCain

Editorial

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http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20071212&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=712120353&SectionCat=NEWS01&Template=printart

Spartanburg Herald Journal (SC): Sticking To His Guns

McCain believes he's still GOP's best hope

By Jason Spencer

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http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/NEWS01/712120376/1011&template=printart

Greenville News (SC): McCain Sets Veterans' Health Care As Priority

Candidate reiterates waterboarding opposition

By Dan Hoover

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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/12/11/politics/fromtheroad/entry3606304.shtml

CBS News’ From The Road Blog: McCain Blasts MoveOn.org - Again

By Andante Higgins

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/mccain-vows-he.html

ABC News’ Political Radar Blog: McCain Vows He Won't Let Dems 'Lose This War'

By Bret Hovell

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Associated Press: Swift Says Democrats Will Brand Romney 'Flip-Flopper'

By Glen Johnson
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ Jane Swift, the acting governor whom Mitt Romney elbowed aside to make his own gubernatorial run in 2002, warned New Hampshire voters Tuesday it would be a mistake to nominate her fellow Republican for president because Democrats could eviscerate him as a ''flip-flopper'' in the general election campaign.

''Politics is a definition game. If candidates don't successfully define themselves, others will gladly do it for them. Being defined as a chronic flip-flopper will make Mitt Romney particularly vulnerable,'' Swift wrote in an op-ed piece for The Union Leader, the state's largest newspaper.

Swift, who has endorsed Romney rival John McCain in the nomination contest, said Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton would surely attack Romney for changing his views on abortion, and his emphasis on other issues, if she emerges as her party's nominee.

''In a Romney-Clinton matchup, Democrats need only take a page from the George W. Bush playbook: Undermine the voters' sense that Romney can be trusted by highlighting the number of times he's conveniently changed his mind. And don't forget: He will have to do some more flipping if he becomes the party's nominee. Romney would have to tack back toward the middle _ where most American voters comfortably sit _ in order to win. That might just be a flip-flop-flap,'' Swift wrote.

The Romney camp replied with a tart statement underscoring the enmity between the two former allies.

''You can tell the McCain campaign is in desperate straits when they look down their bench of surrogates and the only person sitting there is Jane Swift, who left the state in worse shape than she found it,'' Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said. ''Mitt Romney turned things around by cleaning up Jane Swift's budget mess, and he has the experience, the vision and the values to fix what's broken in Washington.''

Swift's column completes a trifecta for Massachusetts gubernatorial involvement in the New Hampshire campaign in recent weeks.

Swift's running mate, former Gov. Paul Cellucci, held a rally in front of the Massachusetts Statehouse late last month to accuse Romney of increasing spending and failing to deliver on promised tax cuts during his four years in office. Cellucci is backing former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Last week, the Romney campaign responded by inviting former Gov. William F. Weld to a day of campaign events, where he toasted Romney's fiscal stewardship and urged primary voters to back him. Weld has not only endorsed Romney, but worked vigorously to raise money for him.

In her op-ed, Swift recalls her own political history with Romney.

Swift, then lieutenant governor, succeeded Cellucci as acting governor in 2001 when he resigned to become U.S. ambassador to Canada. She planned to mount her own campaign for governor in 2002, but tearfully stepped aside after Romney returned from the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and made it clear he would challenge her for the nomination.

''As a Massachusetts state senator, I was one of Mitt's early supporters in his 1994 contested primary for the U.S Senate. As acting governor of Massachusetts in 2002, I ended my own campaign for the Republican nomination to give Romney the best opportunity to beat the Democratic candidate that November,'' Swift wrote.

''Once elected governor, however, Romney began his transformation of consciousness. His flip flops on social issues are well documented,'' she added. ''As his national ambitions grew larger, it seems Massachusetts grew smaller in Romney's rearview mirror. The governor who promised to be the salesman-in-chief for his state's economy instead toured the country using us as the butt of his jokes.''

Swift closed with a pitch for McCain that itself included jabs at Romney.

''I have great admiration for John McCain because he sticks to his beliefs, even when they are not politically popular,'' she wrote. ''We disagree on important social issues, but I know where he stands and why.''

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http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/DanNowicki/12401

Arizona Republic’s McCain Central Blog: Cindy McCain: My Husband Can Beat Hillary Clinton

By Dan Nowicki


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http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110010979

Wall Street Journal: That Does Not Compute

Mitt Romney Has A Passion For Data. A Great President Needs A Passion For Principle.

By Jeffery Lord

Mitt Romney loves data and lusts after process.

John McCain Articles: 12/3/07

Union Leader: John McCain Is The Man To Lead America
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=John+McCain+is+the+man+to+lead+America&articleId=dfca72c2-4a23-49e5-943f-1d85256f45cc

Iowa State Daily: Daily Endorsement: McCain For Republicans
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=d4e161ae-85ed-4ef7-b979-0c4d7450204c

Union Leader: McCain Statement On Union Leader Endorsement
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=McCain+statement+on+Union+Leader+endorsement&articleId=67054ad9-2ace-4fbe-bafe-b6f7502d5016

ABC News: New Hampshire Union-Leader Endorses McCain
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/new-hampshire-u.html

Rasmussen Reports: Election 2008: Obama vs. McCain And Romney
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2008__1/2008_presidential_election/election_2008_obama_vs_mccain_and_romney

McCain Articles and Media 12/2/07

The Buzz - Fox News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah5kEoTXVjg

Union Leader Endorsement - John McCain is the Man to Lead America
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=John+McCain+is+the+man+to+lead+America&articleId=dfca72c2-4a23-49e5-943f-1d85256f45cc

To know him is to, well, come to like him. Really. That is the untold story of John McCain. I should know... Granite Grok
http://granitegrok.com/blog/2007/12/to_know_him_is_to_well_come_to_like_him.html

Washington Post: Principles Amid The GOP Pack
By David Broder
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001788_pf.html

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/FOX_NH_2008_release113007_web.pdf
Romney 29%
McCain 21%
Giuliani 19%
Huckabee 7%
Paul 4%
Thompson 4%