Posted on 04/17/2007 7:56:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who last week gave a high-stakes speech reaffirming his support for President Bush’s surge policy in Iraq, will begin to take steps this week to court independent and moderate voters who were a crucial part of his 2000 coalition but who have been turned off by his steadfastness on the war.
McCain is reaching beyond the traditional pool of Republican primary voters with a pair of speeches – including one in Memphis Monday - that include plans to help displaced workers find new jobs and an outline of proposals on energy security that mirror the free-enterprise policies advocated by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R).
The plans to streamline unemployment aid could have appeal in the manufacturing centers of the Midwest and South, where many blue-collar workers are anxious about their economic futures. And energy is a bipartisan issue that provides what a Republican strategist called “down-the-middle body language” for GOP politicians who want to broaden their voter pools.
“If I’m elected President,” McCain said in a prepared text of his remarks in Memphis, “I’ll work with Congress and the states to overhaul unemployment insurance and make it a program for retraining, relocating and assisting workers who have lost a job that’s not coming back to find a job that won’t go away.
“We should replace our outmoded and redundant programs with a single system. We can help people get back on their feet more quickly with jobs in the private sector, which offer the best training for a changing marketplace.
“We can strengthen community colleges and technical training, and give displaced workers more choices to find their way back to productive and prosperous lives.”
McCain will officially announce his campaign with a swing that begins April 25 in New Hampshire and continues to South Carolina, Iowa and Arizona.
On April 23, he plans to give an energy-security policy speech that outlines ideas he has long advocated for reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil and for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, including a “cap and trade” system that would seek to curb pollution by creating a market in emissions permits.
That will be the third and last in a series of policy speeches that began last week with his Iraq address at Virginia Military Institute, and continued Monday with the remarks to the Economic Club of Memphis, in the grand ballroom of the University of Memphis Holiday Inn.
McCain appeared with Schwarzenegger in February in San Pedro, Calif., to suggest he would push for federal versions of energy policies the governor has promoted in the Golden State – which just happens to be the biggest prize in the mass of primaries on Feb. 5, 2008.
The Memphis speech included plenty of applause lines for core Republicans as well. McCain stressed spending restraint: having the will to say “no” to increased spending, making Bush’s tax cuts permanent and re-emphasizing the GOP’s traditional focus on free trade.
“I’m not running for President to be somebody, but to do something,” McCain said in remarks obtained before the speech by the Politico.
“I promise you, if I’m elected President, I won’t leave office without balancing the federal budget. And I won’t do it with smoke and mirrors.
“When I leave office, I want to leave a budget that stays balanced after I’m gone, and can weather the occasional downturn and unexpected contingency. I’ll do it by spending less and encouraging economic growth.”
Implicitly challenging the approach taken by Bush, McCain vowed to force more spending discipline, without waiting for Congress to give the president line-item veto authority.
“The presidency has many powers. One of the most useful is the veto pen,” he said. “Give me the pen, and I’ll veto every single pork barrel bill Congress sends me, and if they keep sending them to me, I’ll use the bully pulpit to make the people who are wasting your money famous.
“You’ll know who they are, and you can hold them accountable. ‘No’ is always the right answer to wasteful spending.”
McCain also touched on Iraq by joining Bush in criticizing the spending proposals that Congress added to the war appropriations bill working its way to Bush’s desk.
"To win their votes," McCain said, "Democratic leaders didn’t persuade them of the merits of their proposal. They bought them. They took the lid off the pork barrel, and said to wavering members, 'Help yourself. There’s plenty more where that came from.' "
What were you doing for those 25 years in the Senate, besides kissing the MSM's behind.
Who was he trying to reach out to for the past 8 years? Gang of 14.....McCain-Feingold....McCain-Kennedy amnesty? etc, ad nauseum
FYI “Occupied” California..
CA: Nuclear power plant bill dies — committee chair cuts off author ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819057/posts
Yeah we need a president who will help screw Michigan more than it already is.
| Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 04/17/2007 10:56:58 PM EDT Politico.com ^ | 4/16/07 | Mike Allen Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who last week gave a high-stakes speech reaffirming his support for President Bush’s surge policy in Iraq, will begin to take steps this week to court independent and moderate voters who were a crucial part of his 2000 coalition but who have been turned off by his steadfastness on the war. McCain is reaching beyond the traditional pool of Republican primary voters with a pair of speeches – including one in Memphis Monday - that include plans to help displaced workers find new jobs and an outline of proposals on energy security that mirror the free-enterprise... |
Again?
He’s already got the moderates on the right except the ones Rudy has....so this article must mean the moderate RATS.
FR Search Results back to 2000 and 2002
Gang of 14.....McCain-Feingold....McCain-Kennedy amnesty? etc, ad nauseum
McCain will not be POTUS.
He’s figured out reaching out (Lying) to Conservatives is futile.
Glad he got the message.
Truth be told his Employment Insurence overall is not that bad as it is very much like welfare to work programs, however acting like Aronld on “globe warming”.....
McLame would reach out to MARTIANS if it could get him elected.
The thing that gets me about a lot of politicians is WHY they run for office. In too many cases it seems to be one thing - THEM - THEIR EGO - THEIR need to be recognized.
Compare them with people like Lincoln or Washington or Reagan or Teddy Roosevelt who ran becasue they had a message, an agenda, a purpose beyond feeding their own personal egos.
I think the latter can be said of Hunter, Thompson (if he runs), Tancredo and Cort.
All the rest are in it for themselves on the Republican side.
Since no Dems are worth considering, I won’t critique them.
Glad to see that.
They can all get painted over with yellow stripes in the middle of the highway as a group.
Yo, Mike Allen!!! Hello!!!!! What the hell is a ‘moderate’ if McCain has to ‘reach out’ to them? Where the hell do you think McCain is reaching to them FROM? The Far Right??!!??!
Too much time at TIME apparently convinced Allen that anybody who isn’t already gay, a socialist, a war protestor or a Kennedy must be a right winger.
We now have 2 candidates even paying the right wing of the Republican party any attention whatsoever. And neither of them are in the top 2 positions in national polls.
What say ye all of that?
More big government boondoggles.
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