Posted on 01/29/2007 8:46:50 AM PST by meg88
McCain’s sneak attack: Arizona senator launches campaign ‘Express’ in Bay State By Laurel J. Sweet Monday, January 29, 2007 - Updated: 01:25 AM EST
U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has elected the home of his Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney to host his campaign’s inaugural get-out-the-vote meeting.
And Romney, 59, after stumping today and tomorrow in South Carolina, will actually be in Massachusetts when the “McCain Express” rolls into the American Legion Hall in Dedham on Wednesday night.
“This is the first state where we are holding such a meeting so we want it to be a great success,” longtime local McCain supporter Jean Inman wrote Bay State GOP faithful in an e-mail yesterday on behalf of the McCain 2008 Exploratory Committee.
Calls to the 70-year-old Vietnam War hero’s people were not immediately returned, but Eric Fehrnstrom, ex-Gov. Romney’s spokesman, didn’t sound alarmed by the pending enemy invasion.
“Gov. Romney has a high level of support among Massachusetts Republicans because of his record for balancing budgets, keeping taxes low and fighting to preserve traditional marriage,” Fehrnstrom said.
“We look forward to unveiling that support further down the road.”
Former congressman Peter Torkildsen, who was recently named chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, kept his tone upbeat and his opinions to himself.
“I welcome all Republicans to Massachusetts,” Torkildsen said. “The primary for president is one of the most intense times for any party - Democrat or Republican.”
Those now waving the Bay State banner for McCain, who lost the 2000 Republican presidential nomination to George W. Bush, include political strategist Rob Gray, a former senior adviser to Romney.
Gray recently told the Herald he was “pro-McCain, not anti-Romney.”
“I like Mitt and I wish him well,” Gray said then, “but I think John McCain is the right candidate to carry our party to victory in November 2008.”
If that's the case then we are all doomed.
Republicans could do the same thing and cross over to vote against Hillary!
McCain thinks he can win electoral votes from 100% Dem Massachusetts?
Other than Reagan, have they EVER gone R in a presidential election?
I doubt there will be much cross over in 2008. There is going to be wide open races in both parties. People are going to have their own house to put in order.
I wonder if John McInsane will stop by to see his 'good friend John Kerry', the same John Kerry that went to Switzerland to trash talk the United States?
Like MA will matter in the general election. Code BLUE.
In never really matters in the primary either.
Then why are you worried?
I'm not worried at all. Any open primary though is stupid on principle. Why should anyone allow non-members to pick their party's candidate? So McCain goes to Mass to try and recruit liberals... they will easily go for McCain over Romney. That however, should tell us something.
Argh! Can someone PLEASE tell him that we don't want him!!
Very good cube gif!!
Ah, yes, the crossdresser, er, crossover vote. I do remember that.
Thanks potlatch
And McRINO is proposing to limit freedoms even more
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