McCain stumps the feudal federalists.
McCain Woos the Right, Makes Peace With Falwell
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1779141&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
March 28, 2006 — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
still breaks from GOP orthodoxy on such issues
as torture and immigration. But operating below
the radar, the potential Republican presidential
hopeful is taking steps to win over the
conservatives who denied him the GOP's presidential
nomination in 2000.
His efforts have paid off with at least one
prominent conservative.
"I think he is genuinely a state's righter- and so am I,"
the Rev. Jerry Falwell told ABC News.
When McCain ran for president the last time,
he denounced Falwell as one of America's
"agents of intolerance." But now that McCain
is gearing up to run for president as the
GOP's establishment candidate, he has told Falwell
that he spoke "in haste" in 2000.
McCain's outreach to conservatives on marriage
is politically important because of the way he
sharply denounced a federal constitutional ban
on gay marriage when it was considered in 2004.
McCain called it "antithetical in every way to
the core philosophy of Republicans" because it
"usurps from the states a fundamental authority
they have always possessed and imposes a federal
remedy for a problem that most states do not
believe confronts them."
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Back to the plantation:
Labor leaders boo McCain on immigration, Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12155322/from/RSS/
WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain threatened Tuesday to
cut short a speech to union leaders who booed his
immigration views and later challenged his statements
on organized labor and the Iraq war.
"If you like, I will leave," McCain told the
AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Department,
pivoting briefly from the lectern. He returned to
the microphone after the crowd quieted.
But he took more questions, including a pointed one
on his immigration plan.
McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking
jobs nobody else wanted. He offered anybody in the
crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.
Shouts of protest rose from the crowd, with some
accepting McCain's job offer.
"I'll take it!" one man shouted.
McCain insisted none of them would do such
menial labor for a complete season.
"You can't do it, my friends."
Some in the crowd said they didn't appreciate
McCain questioning their work ethic.
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