McCain’s still trying to bring the old brand back:
Republican John McCain says he’s the same presidential candidate he was seven years ago.
“I’m still the same candidate I was – little bit older, but still the same candidate,” McCain said in Des Moines Friday during his three-day Iowa campaign swing.
But the candidate who in his 2000 campaign badgered George W. Bush, pronounced government spending the top White House priority and skipped the Iowa caucuses has rethought all three positions.
Capping a swing through Iowa Friday where his 2008 campaign is in full gear, McCain embraced President Bush’s tax, immigration and Iraq war plans, and called the war on terrorism the country’s defining issue.
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“I have some distrust of McCain. He’s always presenting himself as a maverick, and now he’s trying to move to the right,” said [Dickinson County GOP vice chairman Mike] Koenecke. “I personally don’t have a lot of support for him. He’s not been a party unifier but a party divider.”
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