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McCain-Feingold announces he's a candidate
Oh, did I spell that wrong? It's hard to stop typing after just the first last name. (I guess I can still get away with saying that. I mean, they haven't repealed the First Amendment yet, have they?) McCain Declares on Letterman, Releases Top 10 List
Scott Ott
(2007-03-01) — Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, who used an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman to announce he's running for president, tonight plans to release his Top Ten list of why Republicans should nominate him to head the 2008 GOP ticket.
The edgy septuagenarian maverick plans to make a formal announcement in April, after completing a round of appearances on the other respected political news programs — The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Saturday Night Live and Larry King Live.
Mr. Letterman plans to read the list, prepared by the McCain campaign, on tonight’s show: ...
Oops, there I go again. I mean, just because I consider the man's candidacy a joke, should I be making fun of him? .... Hell, yeah!
*** McCain Announces On Letterman
Ed Morrissey
I missed this yesterday while I traveled to Washington DC for the CPAC conference, but John McCain explicitly announced that he would run for President in 2008. One might think that CPAC would have provided a good platform for that event, but instead he chose Late Night with David Letterman:
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Obviously, Letterman's show has national reach, but it seems more than a little strange in two ways. First, it reminds people of Arnold Schwarzenegger's announcement on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, but with little of the surprise. Did anyone think John McCain was not going to run for President? Secondly, it wasn't even the formal announcement. McCain's staff had to explain that the formal announcement -- which affects contributor and spending status -- will come sometime in April, and which has become even more of an anti-climax.
Conservatives attending CPAC might wonder why McCain has the time to gladhand Letterman while claiming that any of the three days of CPAC won't fit into his schedule. Considering McCain's claims to be our true representative in the race, the conservative activists gathered here at the Omni Shoreham hotel might expect him to reprioritize a bit. ...
*** John McCain's base
Michelle Malkin
The Maaaverick is not going to the Conservative Political Action Conference, which begins [today].
But he did have time to tape his announcement on the David Letterman Show. Video at Hot Air.
Interesting priorities. ...
*** McCain: U.S. Lives 'Wasted' in Iraq
Dan Riehl
What a maverick, huh? WASHINGTON Mar 1, 2007 (AP)— Republican presidential contender John McCain, a staunch backer of the Iraq war but critic of how President Bush has waged it, said U.S. lives had been "wasted" in the four-year-old conflict. Democrats demand the Arizona senator apologize for the comment as Sen. Barack Obama did when the Democratic White House hopeful recently made the same observation. ...
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