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McCain's Sneak Attack: Arizona Senator Launches Campaign 'Express' in Bay State
Boston Herald ^ | 1/29/07 | Laurel Sweet

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.”


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2008; angermanagement; electionpresident; mcnuts

1 posted on 01/29/2007 8:46:52 AM PST by meg88
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To: meg88
Unfortunately in Mass they let anybody vote in primaries. Democrats could do what they did in 2000 and encourage enough people to cross over and vote for McCain. Of course they won't vote for him in the actual election, they just do it to try and stop more conservative candidates. Open primaries are stoooooooooopid.
3 posted on 01/29/2007 8:50:32 AM PST by rhombus
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To: meg88
Click on the pic
4 posted on 01/29/2007 8:50:39 AM PST by ASA Vet (The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
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To: meg88
Wow, a pretend Republican vrs a pretend Conservative.

God help the Republic!
5 posted on 01/29/2007 8:50:40 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( If they say "speaking truth to power,"-they haven't had a l thought since the Beatles broke up)
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To: TonyRo76

If that's the case then we are all doomed.


6 posted on 01/29/2007 8:50:57 AM PST by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: MNJohnnie

Republicans could do the same thing and cross over to vote against Hillary!


7 posted on 01/29/2007 8:51:48 AM PST by princess leah
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To: meg88

McCain thinks he can win electoral votes from 100% Dem Massachusetts?

Other than Reagan, have they EVER gone R in a presidential election?


8 posted on 01/29/2007 8:52:34 AM PST by DBrow
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To: princess leah

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.


9 posted on 01/29/2007 8:52:57 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( If they say "speaking truth to power,"-they haven't had a l thought since the Beatles broke up)
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To: meg88

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?


10 posted on 01/29/2007 8:53:04 AM PST by mkjessup
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To: TonyRo76
Only candidates as liberal as Giuliani and Romney could make me consider supporting Grampa Walton (McStain).

Smart strategy here: McStain wipes out Romney and his financial support to gird his loins to then defeat Giuliani. So we can conclude that McStain has hired some very competent campaign professionals.
11 posted on 01/29/2007 8:53:37 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: rhombus

Like MA will matter in the general election. Code BLUE.


12 posted on 01/29/2007 8:54:31 AM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: onyx

In never really matters in the primary either.


13 posted on 01/29/2007 8:58:21 AM PST by rhombus
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To: rhombus

Then why are you worried?


14 posted on 01/29/2007 8:59:18 AM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: onyx

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.


15 posted on 01/29/2007 9:03:02 AM PST by rhombus
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To: meg88

Argh! Can someone PLEASE tell him that we don't want him!!


16 posted on 01/29/2007 10:04:17 AM PST by CT102ndInfSister (Please pray for the soldiers of the 102nd serving proudly in Afghanistan.)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik



17 posted on 01/29/2007 10:07:49 AM PST by devolve ( ........"refresh" my (updated) graphics posts)
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To: devolve

Very good cube gif!!


18 posted on 01/29/2007 2:28:57 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: rhombus

Ah, yes, the crossdresser, er, crossover vote. I do remember that.


19 posted on 01/29/2007 4:57:42 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: potlatch


Thanks potlatch

And McRINO is proposing to limit freedoms even more


20 posted on 01/29/2007 8:24:57 PM PST by devolve ( ........"refresh" my (updated) graphics posts)
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