The New Hampshire primary will be held on January 8th, only five days after the Iowa caucuses. This means we have very little time to take action and make sure that Senator McCain finishes well enough to have the momentum he needs to win Michigan, South Carolina, Florida, and the rest of the primaries that follow.
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MSNBC has a story about a new McCain radio ad hitting the airwaves in New Hampshire. It focuses on climate change issues, and might help to win over some of the state’s Republican and Independent voters. On the flip side, this could be an unpopular stance with some more hard core conservatives, particularly in the Southern primary states.
The following is the text of the ad…
MCCAIN: “Eight years ago, I hadn’t thought much about climate change. But the people of New Hampshire had.”
ANNCR: “John McCain talks about climate change.”
MCCAIN: And in every town hall I heard from you that climate change was real and was a serious threat to our environment and national security. I think the time is past when we argue about whether climate change is real or not. We have an obligation to future generations to take action and fix it. Not everyone heard you, but I did. And since then I’ve worked hard to find free market solutions to the problem because I know like you know: there’s no problem too tough for the American people to tackle. One of those solutions is to reduce our dependence on foreign oil because it’s not just a greenhouse gas issue; it’s a national security issue. You were right New Hampshire, and I’m glad I listened to you. And I’m still listening.”
“I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”
More great news and momentum as yet another big endorsement comes to Senator McCain’s camp. The news keeps getting better and better!
From the Business Journal of Phoenix…
Former U.S. Navy Secretary and 9/11 Commission member John Lehman has endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain’s White House bid.
Lehman also is chairman of J.F. Lehman & Co., a private equity firm.
The endorsement comes a day after former 9/11 Chairman and ex-New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean announced his support for McCain.
A new CNN poll in New Hampshire shows McCain in second place among Republican presidential contenders with 18 percent of the vote. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the pack with 33 percent. Anti-war Texas Congressman Ron Paul garnered 8 percent. The survey polled 400 GOP voters in the state.
The Chicago Tribune ran this great article on the building momentum and push for McCain in New Hampshire….
In the toasty warmth of Howard’s Restaurant, Sen. John McCain stepped in from the snow to greet the breakfastgoers in this far north town and convince them that he’s got what it takes to win.
These days, he’s making the case with sharper language that he’s better equipped to be president than his Republican rivals, and that he’s the best choice to defeat Sen. Hillary Clinton, the Democrat who most Republicans believe will be their opponent in the general election.
He’s also running into bigger and bigger crowds — some reminiscent of the standing-room-only town halls he held in New Hampshire eight years ago at the time of his smashing victory over then-Texas Gov. George Bush. “You can start to feel the enthusiasm,” McCain said.
Andrew Sullivan wrote this excellent opinion piece for the London Sunday Times that lays out the case why John McCain is the only Republican who can end the Iraq war with honor and dignity.
Read the whole story here.
McCain, however, looks better not just because he has stuck to his pro-war position while acknowledging painful reality, but because the others have increasingly looked so unnerving. Romney’s plastic demeanour and say-anything style have not caught on outside the first two states where he has poured millions of his own money into blanket television advertising. Thompson has yet to seem a viable president. Giuliani’s bizarre personal quirks and all-purpose, random hawkishness do not calm nerves in a very unstable world. Fellow Republican candidate Mike Huckabee is a jovial inheritor of Bush’s spend-like-Jesus conservatism, but has zero foreign policy experience. And so . . . we come back to McCain.
This is fantastic news. Senator McCain will be endorsed by Tom Kean, the former governor of NJ and chairman of the 9/11 commission…
NBC News has learned that Tom Kean Sr. will endorse McCain tomorrow. There is a 2:30 p.m. press conference in Boston scheduled to officially make the announcement. Kean is a former governor of New Jersey and chair of the 9-11 Commission.
NBC News has also learned that McCain will “likely” be headed to Iraq for Thanksgiving. Details are still in the works but the campaign is 95 percent sure he will be there Wednesday through the weekend.
Baseball player Curt Schilling, pitcher for the World Series champion Boston Red Sox, endorsed John McCain on a talk radio program…
“I gotta go with McCain,” said Schilling. “As we get through this, and we start to hear things, I’m not voting party line anymore. I’m voting for the guy that I know is going to be the same person four years from now that he was when [he was] elected. I need to trust somebody because I don’t agree with anybody’s platform front to back. I just need to know that the person that I’m putting in the office is not going to… people don’t want to hear this but President Bush has stayed very true to what he’s wanted, and what he’s done, and I just think the office is bigger than any one person. I need somebody that I can trust to do right by the country and stick to their guns.”
U.S. Senator John McCain’s New Hampshire Vice Chair, former Congressman Chuck Douglas (R-NH), along with the campaign’s New Hampshire Leadership Committee, today issued the following statement on reports of push polling in New Hampshire:
“Today, the McCain New Hampshire Leadership Committee intends to file a complaint with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office seeking a full investigation to determine who was behind the push poll. The Leadership Committee calls on all the other Republican campaigns to join us as parties to this complaint. These tactics are repugnant and despicable and there is no place in New Hampshire politics for push polling or any other negative tactics that engage in personal attacks. It is especially shameful that those responsible would hide behind a push poll to impugn a candidate’s faith.”
Senator John McCain issued the following statement today:
“I applaud my Leadership Team for taking action against these cowardly acts. I call on all other candidates and their supporters to repudiate these attacks and join me in pledging not to engage in such despicable tactics throughout the balance of this campaign. I am outraged by the cowardly telephone calls that hide behind my name in an effort to disparage one candidate and advance the candidacy of another. I was a target of these same tactics in South Carolina in 2000 and believe the American people deserve better from those who seek the high office of the presidency.”
This CNN vs. McCain controversy isn’t very interesting or useful to the campaign. A supporter called Hillary a bitch, and McCain didn’t specifically denounce the supporter… but instead noted that he had respect for Senator Clinton.
NRO Blogger Jim Geraghty agrees that this is CNN trying to create news out of nothing…
Team McCain is swinging away at Rick Sanchez, who I ought to note, used to host the Sunday night blogger chat segments that I appear on from time to time. I think Sanchez is a pretty good anchor, but I saw the segment last night, and it seemed to be a pretty obvious effort to turn the question to McCain into a YouTube moment. Sanchez kept inferring that McCain thought it was ”excellent” to call Hillary Clinton the B-word, and I think he’s seeing something that isn’t there. The “how to beat her” part is an excellent question to contemplate for any candidate who wants to win. And indeed, McCain went on to say he respected Hillary.
Here’s the full, unedited video of what was said…
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