Posted on 09/13/2007 9:47:46 AM PDT by meandog
Sen. John McCain hit the campaign trail yesterday to kickoff of his "No Surrender" tour after spending the day on Capitol Hill listening to Gen. David Petraeus testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee. McCain, a vocal supporter of this year's troop surge in Iraq, used his time at the hearing to claim he's been on the right side of the war debate all along.
McCain's jet touched down in Sioux City, Iowa, Tuesday night to begin what some are dubbing a relaunch of a campaign struggling with fundraising difficulties and staff departures. His audience of about 300 people, mostly seniors and veterans, snacked on ham sandwiches while waiting, getting books signed by war hero Col. Bud Day -- the namesake of the airfield where McCain was set to land.
The event began when McCain's jet rolled into view of the hangar draped in American flags and his No Surrender bus met him to drive him to the stage.
McCain was introduced by Day, a decorated Air Force pilot who was a prisoner of war with McCain in Vietnam. Day argued that McCain's POW experience helped provide him with the experience and character required to be president, and that he was cut from the same cloth as Republican icons Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt.
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Because of his conservative voting record.
Because he isn’t a RINO like McCain.
Because his record doesn’t include support for the amnesty bill, abortion, high taxes, gun control, I can go on here.
Tell us how you feel about Mr. McCain :-)
“Unfortunately for McCain, Bush is (unfortunately) preparing for a withdrawal.”
Yea, AFTER WE WIN.
I’d rather let you decide. ; )
More like 20% courage and 80% RINO.
his pro-amnesty pro-CFR and anti-Bush-tax-cuts stands should make him UNacceptable to any real conservative.
You know, at first I thought he was refering to his bleak campaign prospects with that No Surrender thing.
Actually, FRed’s “conservative voting record”
is little different than McCain’s. And while I was disappointed in McCain’s position on immigration and assault weapons, I have to note that the president was of the same, exact mind on each. On abortion, McCain has said and repeated that he is firmly pro life...it is Mitt, Rudy, and even Thompson who’ve mostly flipped on abortion.
Seems to me that McCain was a poison pill after South Carolina in 2000 and a poor loser.
He did all he could it seems to make life dificult for the president.
At a time when the president could have used all the help he could get.
Now then if you get in to McCain and his free speech curtailment during elections and I am not a fan of his.
While Fred is not a perfect Reagan conservative he is a far cry from Rudy.
At this point after reading his votes as a senator I’ll back Fred.
If Fred had enlisted, he would have been assigned to the JAG Corps. Would that have helped win the Vietnam war?
I could also point out that Fred was a Goldwater backer and there would have been no extended Vietnam war if he had prevailed.
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