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For Possible '08 Run, McCain Is Courting Bush Loyalists
Washington Post ^ | February 12, 2006 | Dan Balz

Posted on 02/12/2006 11:22:18 AM PST by mdittmar

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a man in perpetual motion, flew to South Carolina on Jan. 16. His stops included a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and speeches to local Republican groups. But one of his most important events was not on the public schedule -- a 5 p.m. meeting at a Spartanburg hotel with loyalists to President Bush.

A dozen or so people were in attendance. At least two were among Bush's major national fundraisers. Virtually all had been on Bush's side in the bitter 2000 South Carolina primary that badly damaged McCain's chances of winning the presidential nomination and scarred the relationship between the two men and their rival political camps. McCain was there to woo them.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dreamon; mccain2008; rino
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142 posted on 02/16/2006 6:16:16 AM PST by RockinRight (Attention RNC...we're the party of Reagan, not FDR...)
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"Bush Loyalists" aren't quite the same as "conservatives," so I can see where he's got hope.

McNut's only problem is that "conservatives" are mostly the one's running the GOP machination -- and they consider McNut a political transvestite.

143 posted on 02/16/2006 6:20:09 AM PST by F16Fighter
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