"McCain's campaign stands apart with messages focused on positive ideas. The contrast is striking and significant, the mark not just of a campaign but of the man. ... He scores high marks on the tests of character and integrity, even his critics would have to acknowledge." -- The Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Excerpts from, "For president, Republicans: John McCain"
Editorial The Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)January 21, 2008
Our economy is on the brink of a collapse into recession. A war in Iraq drags on, seemingly without end. Our tax burden grows heavier every day. ...
Where are the true leaders? Where are men and women of strong character and integrity? Where are the public servants with independence and positive convictions and political courage?
We are asking these questions repeatedly in this presidential race.
And the answer, on the Republican side, is U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, whom we warmly endorse.
Character?
Survey the state of the Republican campaigns these days, and many of them have sunk recently into embarrassing negativity, one mean-spirited attack after the other.
McCain's campaign stands apart with messages focused on positive ideas. The contrast is striking and significant, the mark not just of a campaign but of the man.
As everyone knows, McCain demonstrated incredible courage and fortitude during his long imprisonment in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp, where he was tortured and subjected to other horrors. This is not a man who is going to be intimidated. McCain also is a man who has shown the capacity to forgive, a capacity to dwell on the positive, not on the negative.
He scores high marks on the tests of character and integrity, even his critics would have to acknowledge.
In the Senate, he has taken on the special interests and the too-mighty impact of the donated dollar. He was a leader in fashioning a campaign finance reform law that, while far from perfect, is so true in intention -- removing the corruptive influence of money in political campaigns.
McCain has fought hard to put a lid on the pork barrel full of wasteful projects funded by tax dollars from millions of Americans but benefiting only a select few with clout.
His economic ideas are shrewd and forward-thinking proposals to turn America back toward prosperity and to strengthen our edge in the global marketplace. ...
Who better to be at the helm when the next terrorist attack comes than a man who is tough enough to stand up to our enemies as a former distinguished military leader and strong enough to have beaten the odds against his very survival as a prisoner of a war? ...
There is no one more ready for the job of president among the GOP candidates than John McCain.
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