Here Comes McCain!
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — Senator John McCain is locking up a cast of top-shelf Republican strategists, policy experts, fund-raisers and donors, in a methodical effort to build a 2008 presidential campaign machine, drawing supporters of President Bush despite the sometimes rocky history between the two men.
Mr. McCain’s effort to woo a diverse lineup of backers and scare off rivals has augmented his travel schedule on behalf of Republicans — which this week and next includes trips to Iowa, Louisiana, Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio and Florida.
It’s clear that John McCain is setting himself up to be the front-runner in 2008.
But there are two things I want you to remember.
First, John McCain is the reason that you have fewer First Amendment rights than you did just a few years ago. In fact, he has done more to substantively reduce your freedom of speech, thanks to the McCain-Feingold Act, than anything that’s happened in the past couple of decades. And he did it simply to make his position as an incumbent more secure.
Second, when folks like Dick Durbin and Ted Kennedy were publicly accusing our soldiers of running rape-rooms and comparing them to such sterling representatives of humanity as Pol Pot and Hitler, John McCain remained completely silent. McCain could have defended our soldiers against the slander with a voice that would have carried nearly unmatched authority, since he was a soldier who experienced torture firsthand and knows what it really is, but he did not. Instead, he played the political game.
Just remember those things when the McCain 2008 bandwagon starts to rolling.
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