Posted on 02/09/2008 2:20:08 PM PST by Plutarch
Seattle, WA – One day after his chief rival for the GOP nomination dropped out, Sen. John McCain said among his priorities is now unifying a divided Republican party.
“We are very aware that there is some unification of the party that has to take place,” McCain said during a media availability on his plane Friday.
While the presumptive GOP nominee said he will continue his effort to outreach to party conservatives, some of whom remain skeptical about his record and credentials, McCain said he will not limit his message to the right in the coming months.
“I am trying to appeal to everyone in the party. I recognize that it is going to take a united and energized Republican party, all aspects of it, if we are going to have a chance to win the election in November,” he said, adding he also will look to attract “liberal Republicans” who supported Rudy Giuliani and even anti-war Republicans. “The formula for success in most campaigns is your base, independents and Reagan Democrats.”
McCain said he is looking to meet with Mitt Romney in the next week to discuss ways to help unite the party, noting that his former rival received more than 4 million votes in the early primary states. The Arizona senator also said he understood that it will take weeks, if not months before the party can regroup–based on his memories from his failed 2000 bid for the nomination.”
“After 2000, there were many McCainiacs that were very angry and bitter…a lot of people were bitter because when you invest your hard work and your effort and your passion to a candidate, you understand that there is a period there where you got to unify people and get them to recognize what the major goal is,” McCain said...[edit]
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You got time, Hilly/Obama are going to be slugging it out for months
“McCain said he is looking to meet with Mitt Romney in the next week to discuss ways to help unite the party..”
It’s actually pretty simple, Senator: go away.
If McCain really cared about the party, he would have become a Dem when he had the chance.
McCain, you don’t even begin to understand why we don’t want you as president. If you did, you never would have done the things you have done.
Talking to Romney will do about as much good as . . . .
I can’t think of a dire enough comparison.
I'm not getting anywhere near FR when that happens....call me after the hurricane subsides.
Why does this get posted everyday. I really don’t care what McCain does. He sealed his fate with Kennedy.
After a decade plus of groin kicks, it will take more than some windbaggery before an empty chamber to show me much. I don't see how he can pull it off.
He’s aware that there is some unification in the party that has to take place.... how generous of him. What a jerk!
Wow. That is put perfectly. That's about the only thing McKook could do right now to get any respect or interest from me--
How does McCain propose we ignore the entire history of his “service” in Congress?
How many of his transgressions do I forget and forgive the bastard for?
Sorry — He’ll NOT get my vote, regardless of the outcome..
If disaster follows the loss by McCain - then disaster is too damned close for this incompetent and untrustworthy boob to prevent...
Let the “disaster” fall entirely on the Democrats - if the RNC can’t come up with winning candidates or platforms....
Wonder if he was thinking about that when he was mulling over switching teams and being Kerry’s VP?
Romney is a liberal just like McStain is. Will I be surprised if he endorses him? Hell naw.
"Certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade." --John McCain, 1999
ROFL!!!
He wants us to become unified so he has the pleasure of stabbing us in the back again. McCain is ashamed and embarrassed by the conervative base in the Republican party.
I don’t even have to stick my finger down my throat anymore...it just comes up. ;>)
McLame was big on photo ops in Iraq rather than helping the troops. McLame is out for himself first, IMO. Ego, ego, ego, power, power, power. I was just out shopping and the topic of conversation at the registers was that there was “no one” to vote for in either party. I hear that everywhere I go. Disgusting and pathetic.
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