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
Thursday, December 20, 2007
McCain Articles 12/20/07
Friday, December 14, 2007
McCain Media 12/14/07
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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.
Monday, November 26, 2007
John McCain - Media and Articles 11/16/07
LOVE AMERICA ENOUGH TV AD
http://www.johnmccain.com/tvads/
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ABC News: Back From Iraq, McCain Focuses On New Hampshire
Republican Contender Attempts to Set Himself Apart From Pack in New Hampshire
By Ron Claiborne
http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=3905857
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Washington Post: Decency On Immigration
Apart from John McCain, it's hard to find that quality in the Republican presidential contest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301493_pf.html
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Union Leader: Tom Kean: John McCain Is Best Prepared To Defend And Protect America
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Tom+Kean%3a+John+McCain+is+best+prepared+to+defend+and+protect+America&articleId=ff2d68e4-1808-4137-88e9-c0d369312eef
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Nashua Telegraph: McCain Looks To Rekindle '00 Vibe
By Kevin Landrigan
CONCORD – Republican presidential hopeful John McCain hopes to complete the resurrection of his 2008 candidacy in New Hampshire by starring in a new TV ad cast in an old role – fiery maverick.
The commercial is clearly meant to assure Republican primary voters that even after campaign stumbles, a messy fight over immigration and an unpopular war in Iraq, he remains the same patriot who makes the establishment angry.
McCain, Arizona's senior senator, speaks to the camera during the entire, 60-second ad scheduled to air today on New Hampshire television stations.
"I might not like the business-as-usual crowd in Washington. But I love America. I love her enough to make some people angry," McCain concludes.
The ad highlights McCain's unapologetic support for campaign finance reform and the latest troop surge in Iraq, while railing against pork-barrel spending and the Pentagon's early strategy in the war.
"I didn't go to Washington to win the Mr. Congeniality award," McCain said in the ad. "I went to Washington to serve my country."
McCain produced a similar commercial that aired about the same time as this one eight years ago during his first White House run.
"Sen. McCain is very comfortable communicating directly to the voters, whether it's in his town hall meetings or broadcast messages like this one," said Michael Dennehy, McCain's political director.
"He wants the citizens of New Hampshire to know he's the same guy they saw in 2000, someone who will stand up to the special interests and is no friend of the status quo."
In that 1999 commercial, McCain vowed to fight the special interests, reform campaign finance laws, cut taxes, reduce the federal deficit and save Social Security.
Today, McCain's critics publicly condemn him for joining liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and President Bush to propose a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 12 million illegal aliens.
Those critics also privately question if McCain, 71, can offer a fresh change most voters say they want and if he can defeat a better-financed Democratic nominee in November 2008.
On one level, McCain's ranting at "business as usual" could be seen as a shot at an unpopular president who ignored his sharp criticism and his pleas for more American combat troops early on in Iraq.
"I made the Pentagon angry when I criticized Rumsfeld's Iraq strategy, and I upset the media when I supported the strategy that's now succeeding," McCain declared in the ad.
For McCain, the spot tries to bring him full circle back to the underdog role he played seven years ago against then-candidate George W. Bush and parlayed into a crowning victory in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary.
Three weeks after the New Hampshire vote in 2000, Bush routed McCain in South Carolina and coasted to the Republican nomination.
This nostalgic ad ignores the reality that McCain was the early, wealthy front-runner through all of 2006 and nearly half of this year.
By June, however, that had all vanished, thanks to his campaign's own runaway spending, his unpopular stance on immigration with the conservative base and, at times, a more cautious candidate on the stump.
McCain nosed past former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani into second place in the latest independent poll of likely GOP primary voters from CNN/WMUR.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney still holds onto a healthy lead in the survey, though, 33 percent to 18 percent for McCain.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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Monday, November 19, 2007
John McCain Articles - 11/19/07
Politico: Tom Kean Endorsing McCain In New Push
By Mike Allen
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=556BD59F-3048-5C12-001737676DC5411B
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Associated Press: McCain Says It's OK To Make People Mad, Challenges Clinton
By Philip Elliott
RINDGE, N.H. (AP) _ Making people mad is a good thing, presidential hopeful John McCain said Sunday in a speech aimed at playing up the Arizona senator's outsider reputation.
''I didn't seek public office to go along, to get along,'' McCain said, trying to remind voters of the ''maverick'' label that helped him defeat then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush in New Hampshire in 2000. ''I went to Washington to get something done for the people who sent me there. And since then, I know I've made some people angry.''
McCain said Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has done everything she can to land on the popular side of most issues.
''On the one hand, Senator Clinton says we can't abandon Iraq to al-Qaida and the influence of Iran. On the other, she wants a firm deadline for withdrawal that would do just that,'' McCain said. ''Senator Clinton rejected unconditional talks with Iran, but now says she would negotiate with no preconditions.''
''I'm the conservative Republican with the best chance of defeating Senator Clinton, or whomever the Democrats nominate, and take on the challenges that confront us,'' the Arizona Republican said. ''I'm as committed today as when I first put on the uniform of our country to the cause that has been the work of my life: the interests and ideals of our country.''
McCain in recent days has urged a respectful debate with Clinton _ who he expects the Democratic party to nominate _ and challenged his rivals to stop taking cheap shots at the New York senator. He returned to that theme during his Sunday evening speech.
''She will be a formidable candidate and while our differences are many and profound, I intend this to be a respectful debate,'' McCain said. ''Senator Clinton and I disagree over America's direction, and it is a serious disagreement. But I don't doubt her ability to lead this country where she thinks it should go.''
A Clinton spokeswoman said McCain's record should give voters pause.
''Senator McCain is right: Voters have a clear choice between he and Senator Clinton,'' Kathleen Strand said. ''He wants to continue Bush's failed policies, and Hillary Clinton wants to change them. He wants to escalate the war, she will end it; she supports universal health care for every American and he opposes it.
McCain also challenged his Republican rivals, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who have played up their executive experience. McCain said character matters.
''There comes a time when a president can no longer rely on briefing books and PowerPoints, when the experts and advisers have all weighed in, when the sum total of one's life becomes the foundation from which he or she makes the decisions that determine the course of history,'' McCain said. ''No other candidate, no other candidate has my experience or the judgment it informs.''
McCain said he would take on special interests, reform the tax code and address entitlement programs that are projected to swell in the coming years. Clinton, he said, would consolidate power in Washington and raise taxes.
McCain ticked through defense contractors he exposed as corrupt, lobbyists whose influence he reduced and reporters he frustrated.
''Yes, I've made a lot of people angry. But I didn't go to Washington to win the Mr. Congeniality award. I went there to serve my country,'' McCain said. ''I might not like the business-as-usual crowd in Washington, and they might not like me. But I love America. I love her enough to make some people angry.''
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New York Times: McCain Takes On Clinton, With An Eye To Civility
By MARC SANTORA
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/us/politics/19mccain.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
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Concord Monitor: McCain Hasn't Lost The Gift Of Gab
He's chatty with press on campaign swing
By Margot Sanger-Katz
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Associated Press: McCain Finds Memories At Pizza Stop
By Philip Elliott
LANCASTER, N.H. (AP) _ A trip to a small-town pizza shop on Saturday became a journey into John McCain's past.
One woman brought out a silver prisoner of war bracelet she wore as a student at the University of Maine at Farmington to raise awareness of McCain's capture. Another man told McCain he served with the Arizona senator's grandfather in World War II.
Kathy Treamer, an independent voter who had never met the Republican presidential hopeful before Saturday, wore the bracelet starting in 1970 or 1971 _ she couldn't recall. She wore it until his release and since then, she's kept it in a jewelry box in her home.
''We would get up and watch the POWs come home on TV,'' she said.
Norman Sanaterre, meanwhile, said he knew McCain's grandfather and served on the same ship during World War II.
''I'm definitely voting for him. I voted for him 2000,'' he said.
McCain said he was surprised to find so many familiar people.
''He knew my grandfather in World War II. He told the story that he was at his post in the general quarters. It was the middle of the night and he was falling asleep. My grandfather, the admiral, told him he had better not go to sleep. That came as shock to him, I'm sure,'' McCain said.
Treamer said she plans to vote but hasn't yet settled on a candidate.
''I'm not a very political person so I have not made any decisions on anything,'' she said. ''I've been following him because of the memories it brought to me.''
The bracelet was engraved with Oct. 26, 1967, the date McCain was taken prisoner while serving in Vietnam.
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Time’s Swampland Blog: Romney Blames...McCain??
By Jay Carney
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2007/11/romney_blamesmccain.html
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National Review: Did Mitt Romney Push Poll Himself?
A web of connections.
By Mark Hemingway
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2ZkMWNkZDkzOTk1YTM0NTNkNmJlZThmYjJmM2ZmOGE=
Saturday, November 17, 2007
McCain from Around the Web
Reprinted from - http://mccain08olc.blogspot.com/2007/11/mccain-from-around-web.html
Halperin’s The Page: Poll: McCain Does Best Against Clinton
By Mark Halperin
Fox News: Fox News Poll: McCain Performs Best Against Clinton; Giuliani, Clinton Hold Double-Digit Leads In Nomination Races
By Dana Blanton
Sacramento Bee (CA): McCain Accepts Governor's Invitation To Debate Global Warming In N.H.By
Peter Hecht
New York Times: McCain Finds Sympathy On Torture Issue
By Marc Santora
Greenville News’ Hoover Blog: DeMint: Rebuke Not Aimed At McCain
By Dan Hoover
Pollster Blog: Poll: SurveyUSA GEs In OH, IA
By Eric Dienstfrey
The Pesky Rented Mule Returns
By The Illinois Review
Friday, November 16, 2007
John McCain Articles 11/16/07
http://thepage.time.com/2007/11/15/poll-mccain-does-best-against-clinton/
Halperin’s The Page: Poll: McCain Does Best Against Clinton
By Mark Halperin
Fox poll also shows McCain considered more trustworthy than Giuliani.
GOP: Giuliani– 33, McCain– 17, Thompson– 12, Huckabee– 8, Romney– 8
Dems: Clinton– 44, Obama– 23, Edwards– 1
http://www.sacbee.com/102/story/495694.html
Sacramento Bee (CA): McCain Accepts Governor's Invitation To Debate Global Warming In N.H. By Peter Hecht
Get Off the Couch for McCain
Reprint from http://mccain08olc.blogspot.com/2007/11/get-off-couch-for-mccain.html
I recieved this e-mail today from Joelle of the McCain Campain. I am taking a week off in (probably) early January to volunteer for the McCain Campaign in NH. If you have six weeks, great. If you have 6 hours, that probably works to.
Can you invest six weeks of your time to make history?
We need you at one of our offices in Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan or South Carolina.
If you can relocate to one of the early primary or caucus states, please reply to this e-mail or send your contact information to: mccainvols@johnmccain.com
Thank-you!
Joelle Saliba
Please get back to Joelle if you can answer this call.
She can be reached at mccainvols (at) mccain08.com
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
John McCain - Articles and Media 11/14/07
Chicago Tribune: The GOP's Happy Warrior
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-oped1114mccainnov14,1,1253569,print.story?ctrack=4&cset=true
Boston Globe: N.H. Poll: GOP Primary Stirring Independents
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/11/14/nh_poll_gop_primary_stirring_independents?mode=PF
Time’s Real Clear Politics Blog: A Moment For McCain?
Watch new McCain TV ad, called “Outrageous”
http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2007/11/a_moment_for_mccain.html?xid=rss-rcp
McCain Ad - Outrageous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TR5079To9Y