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GOP Primaries Heat Up On Heels Of Bush S.C. Win
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 20 -- By staying on message and focusing on his
record as a "reformer with results," Texas Governor George W. Bush won the
South Carolina GOP primary, effectively restoring his lead as front-runner.
While many in the media warned of the Democrat and Independent influence in
the South Carolina GOP primary vote, and how it may help further boost
Senator John McCain's candidacy, Bush trounced his opponent, 53% to 42%.
Ambassador Alan Keyes, the only other GOP candidate remaining, received 5%.
A breakdown of the South Carolina vote shows that McCain continues in an
uphill battle in winning the GOP vote as his presidential campaign rolls on.
Last night's results reflected that a stunning 3 out of 4 Republicans voted
against McCain.
Earlier today, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, McCain
rejected the notion of moving to the Reform Party should he continue to lose
against Bush.
As seen in last night's concession speech, the agenda behind the real John
McCain is slowly rearing its ugly head. No more was the supposed upbeat and
positive 'Reaganesque' approach. Instead, as several Sunday morning news
show talking heads pointed out, it was a frustrated, angry and temperamental
McCain who continued to throw out a barrage of accusations at Bush of being
a hypocrite, while predicting his opponent will take the "low road."
"I will not take the low road to the highest office on the land," said
McCain last night, implying that Bush will do so. "A choice between my
optimistic choice for conservatism and the negative message of fear," he
continued, suggesting that Bush's campaign will follow a negative route.
"A choice between a record of reform and an empty slogan of reform. A choice
between experience and pretense," McCain added, further implying that Bush's
"reformer with results" is an empty slogan rather than a reflection of his
record as Texas governor.
Interestingly enough, according to ABC's Dean Reynolds, reporting from the
Bush camp, Texas governor's aides believe that McCain's campaign is in
"meltdown" based on comments made last night in his concession speech.
McCain's web site, http://www.mccain2000.com, which the Senator, along with
many others, hawk as playing a big role in his campaign, does not seem to
include last night's concession speech, instead offering the candidate's
speeches up through only February 9.
Maybe that has something to do with the fact that many observers view
McCain's concession speech as a mistake? On today's ABC's "This Week," Cokie
Roberts and other pundits agreed that not only was the McCain speech a
"mistake," but that his negative advertising comparing Bush to President
Bill Clinton is also a "mistake."
"He's going to spend the next 48 hours explaining that speech," commented
ABC's George Stephanopoulos, referring to McCain.
In contrast to McCain's campaign home page, Bush's site
http://www.georgewbush.com/news/2000/february/pr021900_screm.asp included
the Governor's remarks after the South Carolina win.
Rather than attack McCain, Bush went after the Clinton-Gore administration,
saying that "Clinton Gore have the unfortunate legacy of the highest taxes
in America since World War II. In stark contrast, I know the surplus is not
the government's money, it's the people's money."
According to exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and the
television networks, about 23% of the voters said Bush was the real reformer
in the race. Instead, McCain, who has run as a "reformer" since he began his
presidential bid, was chosen by only 17%.
Apparently McCain's reference to the "Iron Triangle," which he says includes
the special interests, lobbyists and legislators, has not resonated. Polls
show that McCain's continued negative advertising is backfiring rather than
hurting Bush's candidacy. Perhaps this has something to do, in part, to
McCain's role as powerful chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee where he
exclaimed on "Meet the Press" that he's "proud to rule over the special
interests." Yet, according to various news reports, many of McCain's
Washington, D.C. fundraisers are the same lobbyists who have business in
front of his committee....<snip>
see http://users.erols.com/mack97/022000.html
----- Original Message -----
From: William Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 07:28 PM
Subject: [CTRL] A "Hit" On McCain
> -Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">
> </A> -Cui Bono?-
>
> Vol. 6, No. 1271 - The American Reporter - February 21, 2000
>
>
> ARTICLE ON McCAIN IS 'SLEAZE,' SAFIRE CHARGES
> by James De Pietro
> American Reporter Correspondent
> Washington, D.C.
> WASHINGTON -- Early this week, every member of Congress and 130 members of
> the media received free copies of World magazine, a product of God's World
> Publications and its corporate parent, a South Carolina college that
forbids
> interracial dating and is closely associated with Texas Gov. George W.
Bush.
>
> On the cover was an unflattering photo of U.S. Sen. John McCain and a
> headline that called the McCain movement, "A campaign platform that should
> give Republicans pause." Thursday, the New York Times' Pulitzer
Prize-winning
> journalist and former Republican speechwriter William Safire called the
> article inside "religio-political sleaze in action."
>
> Safire, a spokesman for conservatives throughout the world and a former
> speechwriter for President Richard Nixon, charged Thursday that the
article
> unfairly assaults McCain on issues ranging from his tax policy to his
> marriage and traces its origins to the relationship between the magazine's
> editor, longtime Bush strategist Marvin Olansky, and Bob Jones, the
president
> of the South Carolina college that owns and publishes God's World
> Publications. The article was written by Bob Jones IV, the son of the
> president of Bob Jones University.
>
> What troubled Safire was that both the university and the magazine enjoy
> tax-exempt status, as religious organizations. Under U.S. tax laws, such
> organizations are not allowed to engage in partisan political activity or
to
> actively support any political candidate.
>
> At 3 a.m in the morning on Feb. 2, just a few hours after Gov. Bush was
> unexpectedly battered by Sen. McCain in the New Hampshire primary, the
> college's campus was the site of a huge Bush rally by 1,800 students. And
> Thursday, Safire's Op-Ed page column called the article a "repugnant
> anti-McCain campaign document."......
-A
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