A December 14, 2006 column by columnist Robert Novak discusses how Senator John McCain is quickly trying to establish himself as the “establishment candidate” for the 2008 GOP nomination.
The column begins…
“Some 30 invited corporate representatives and other lobbyists gathered at the Phoenix Park Hotel on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning to hear two senior mainstream Republican senators pitch the 2008 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain. They were selling him to establishment Republicans as the establishment’s candidate. Nothing could be further from McCain’s guerrilla-style presidential run in 2000, which nearly stopped George W. Bush.”
So much for running as a “Washington outsider” as he did in 2000.
Talking about the Republican’s 2006 election loss, McCain is quoted in the column as saying, “We lost our principles and our majority. And there is no way to recover our majority without recovering our principles first.”
But on the issue of campaign reform, we wonder if McCain realizes that his principles are out of touch with not only conservatives, but with the American people as well.
