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As he continues his campaign, John McCain is reminded daily that he has a problem with conservatives who have dominated the Republican Party for the past three decades and are a powerful force among the rank-and-file today. At one level, this is very strange. Mr. McCain sports a lifetime 83 percent vote rating from the American Conservative Union, and while campaigning in South Carolina he was accompanied by Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma - a stalwart conservative and tireless fighter against virtually every effort to expand the federal Leviathan. Moreover, Mr. McCain demonstrated extraordinary political leadership and courage in making the case for the very successful "surge" strategy in Iraq when few other Republicans would do so. But despite all of this and his reputation for "straight ...
If you're a Democrat reading this column at the breakfast table, you'd better hit the door. This Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama dustup has Democrats tripping over themselves to vote.But here is a rich little irony: Despite all you've read about Democratic candidates promising change, the surprising change agent in this presidential election could be a 71-year-old Republican. Yes, John McCain. McCain is the GOP nominee, which means Republicans have a senator who led the charge to prevent lobbyists from using their money to gain access to legislators, who co- authored the leading Senate bill on controlling climate change, who believes in using embryonic stem cells for medical research and who co-wrote the legislation to create a legal flow of foreign workers.
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The Republican Party will file federal lawsuits Thursday seeking to overthrow the McCain-Feingold federal campaign finance regulations, Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. "Mike" Duncan revealed Wednesday night at a private dinner with the nation's Republican governors. The move is considered a slap in the face of the Republican Party's failed 2008 presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who was dramatically outspent by Democrat Barack Obama, and of President Bush, who signed McCain-Feingold into law in 2002.
Less than a month after September 11, Sen. John McCain spoke at the United States Naval Academy as part of the Forrestal Lecture Series. In the wake of the traumatic events of the terror attacks, and speaking to an auditorium full of 4,000 future military officers, everyone expected the senator to hold forth a vitriolic speech focused on crushing terrorism.
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