a few choice quotes:
- “I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said, referring to Roosevelt’s reputation for reform, environmentalism and tough foreign policy.
- When asked if he felt that it was more difficult to run against Obama because of the sensitivities of race, McCain responded wryly: “I’d like to make a joke, but I can’t.”
- Asked to name a conservative model, he skipped over the suggestions of three names typically associated with the conservative movement – Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Barry Goldwater, the founder of the modern-day conservative movement who occupied the Senate seat McCain holds today – to settle on Theodore Roosevelt.
- “I believe less governance is the best governance, and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and individual entrepreneurship and the states can do, but I also believe there is a role for government,” McCain said. He added: “Government should take care of those in America who cannot take care of themselves.“
on another note, i am pleased to see that he and obama are still in a DEAD HEAT. there are a lot of ways to spin this. but the fact that obama, with with his cult of ardent supporters and the media and coastal elites still drooling all over him and doing everything that they can to enable his publicity stunts, still isn’t way ahead right now bodes very well for mccain in november. i am “keeping hope alive!”
