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The crowd is gathering for John McCain's big speech tonight at the Arizona Biltmore resort, and the Arizona Capitol Times/Yellow Sheet will provide updates during the evening as we interview key policy makers, longtime McCain supporters and other state dignitaries attending the historic event. McCain supporter and campaign worker Wes Gullett sat down for an interview to talk about McCain's chances and his future only hours before the polls close in Arizona. So what do you think McCain's chances are tonight?
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has long identified himself as an Episcopalian, said this weekend that he is a Baptist and has been for years. Campaigning in this conservative, predominantly Baptist state, Mr. McCain called himself a Baptist when speaking to reporters Sunday and noted that he and his family have been members of the North Phoenix Baptist Church in his home state of Arizona for more than 15 years.
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McCain blasts senator's Afghanistan stance WASHINGTON -- Don't know much about history, don't know much about geography. Channeling the late singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, longtime Republican Sen. John McCain harshly rebuked Sen. Joe Manchin after the freshman West Virginia Democrat called on President Barack Obama to accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. McCain said Manchin's comments "characterize the isolationist withdrawal, lack of knowledge of history attitude that seems to be on the rise in America." Japan agrees to delay Marine-base relocation WASHINGTON - - The U.S. and Japan said they would press ahead with the costly relocation of a U.S. Marine air station in Japan but pushed back the deadline amid opposition to the plans in both countries. The delay in t...
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In endorsing Barack Obama for President over his longtime friend and fellow Republican John McCain, CoMn Powell confirmed what HUMAN EVENTS wrote about him when the retired general announced he would not seek the Republican nomination for President himself in 1995.
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. can't count on Russia - a major arms supplier to Syria - to force President Bashar Assad from power, Sen. John McCain said Sunday, blaming President Barack Obama for embracing a "feckless" foreign policy and punting tough decisions until after the fall election. It was a particularly sharp rebuke even for McCain, R-Ariz., who as a longtime critic of Obama's war strategy hasn't pulled many punches. As the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain's viewpoint on complex world events often finds its way into GOP election-year talking points.
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. can't count on Russia - a major arms supplier to Syria - to force President Bashar al-Assad from power, Sen. John McCain said Sunday, blaming President Barack Obama for embracing a "feckless" foreign policy and punting tough decisions until after the fall election. It was a particularly sharp rebuke even for McCain, R-Ariz., who as a longtime critic of Obama's war strategy hasn't pulled many punches. As the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain's viewpoint on complex world events often finds its way into GOP election-year talking points.
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There were phone calls that said, 'Do you know that Cindy McCain's a drug addict?' Or phone calls that said, 'Do you know the McCains have a Black baby?' Hundreds of thousands of those calls went out," McCain said in the 2003 book, "Man of the People: the Life of [John McCain]. This is a deliberately misleading accusation," McClatchy Newspapers reported September 9 regarding McCain's baseless attack ad claiming that Sen. [Barack Obama] once backed a measure to "teach comprehensive sex education to kindergartners." Time magazine's Joe Klein called it "one of the sleaziest ads I've ever seen in presidential politics." Indeed, McCain is quoted in a March 1, 2007, article titled, "The Maverick Runs" in the Arizona Republic, that said if confronted with the choice of "lying or losing," McC...
...Joe Biden, personally blasted his longtime Republican friend and colleague, Sen. John McCain,...
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WASHINGTON - Don't know much about history, don't know much about geography. Channeling the late singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, longtime Republican Sen. John McCain harshly rebuked Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday after the freshman West Virginia Democrat called on President Obama to accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. McCain said Manchin's comments "characterize the isolationist withdrawal, lack of knowledge of history attitude that seems to be on the rise in America.
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Even as 2010's votes are being counted, Republican Grant Woods said he's considering a possible 2014 gubernatorial run as an independent candidate. The former state Attorney General and longtime adviser to U.S. Sen. John McCain, said he's had conversations with Democratic operative Fred DuVal about Wood's possible run for the state's highest office.
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The ostensible trigger for former Sen. Phil Gramm's sudden resignation on Friday as national co-chairman of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign was a Robert Novak column released on Saturday, sources in the McCain campaign told The Washington Times. In the column, Mr. Novak said the two longtime Republican comrades had "patched up their relationship" and that Mr. Gramm would remain as Mr. McCain's economic adviser and campaign surrogate.
