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 Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: NYT: "McCain Calls New Advisers ‘Good People’" |
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Leftist handwringing over McCain's hiring of Stevens Reed Curcio & Potholm has reached fever pitch. Here's another from the Times quickly following on the heels of yesterday's (Sunday's) front-page "story". Interesting that this one doesn't even have a "byline"...I suppose it's just NY Times consensus angst? 
| Quote: | McCain Calls New Advisers ‘Good People’
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: February 5, 2007
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 — Senator John McCain said Sunday that several aides brought on to his presidential campaign were “good people,” despite his own past criticisms of their work for others in the past.
Appearing on “This Week” on ABC, Mr. McCain was asked about a front-page article in The New York Times on Sunday noting that Mr. McCain’s political team includes advisers who tried to skewer him in the 2000 primary against George W. Bush. And Mr. McCain has brought on members of the team that produced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertisement in 2004 questioning the Vietnam War service record of Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, which Mr. McCain had criticized.
“These are good people who were doing as they were instructed,” Mr. McCain said Sunday. “They are people who shape the message, don’t dictate it.”
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...and now the DNC piles on as well...
| Quote: | DNC: No Negotiation, McCain's Given Up on His Principles
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is a release from the Democratic National Committee:
Senator John McCain is facing questions about his commitment to his own principles as his do-anything-to-win campaign to secure the Republican presidential nomination continues. A new report in the New York Times this weekend highlights how McCain, in his determination to win, is casting aside the principles and ideals he once championed.
While McCain strategist John Weaver insists, "there are no negotiations regarding his principles," McCain has already hinted at opting out of the campaign finance system he created, hired the firm responsible for attack ads that McCain called "dishonest and dishonorable," and hired the architect of the racist ad campaign against Tennessee senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. as his campaign manager. [New York Times, 2/4/07] The Ford ads were so controversial that Terry Nelson was fired as a consultant to Wal-Mart after his role in crafting it came to light. [New York Times, 10/28/06]
"John McCain's do-anything-to-win approach to the Republican primary is ironically making him unelectable," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Luis Miranda. "Whether it's ditching the campaign finance laws that bear his name or hiring the architects of campaign tactics he once denounced, John McCain is sending a clear message as he chases the Republican presidential nomination -- not even his own principles seem to matter. That's why conservatives still don't trust him and independents and moderates have lost interest in him."
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McCain "Sacrificing the Image He Has Long Cultivated" to Win GOP
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John McCain's "moves have focused new attention on the extent to which he may risk sacrificing the image he has long cultivated of being his own man, driven by principle rather than partisan politics." In 2000, McCain said ads run against him distorted his record. In 2007, McCain "hired three members of the team that made those commercials -- Mark McKinnon, Russell Schriefer and Stuart Stevens -- to work on his presidential campaign." In 2004, McCain called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads against Senator John Kerry "dishonest and dishonorable." Now, he has hired the firm that made them. Last October, McCain's top adviser criticized ads run against former Representative Harold E. Ford Jr. "The Republican committee that sponsored the spot had as its leader Terry Nelson, a former Bush campaign strategist whom Mr. McCain hired as an adviser last spring. In December, just weeks after the Ford controversy broke, Mr. McCain elevated Mr. Nelson to the position of national campaign manager." [New York Times, 2/4/07]
PR Newswire - cont'd |
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