News Roundup

McCain, Romney Campaign Together in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- In a show of Republican unity, one-time bitter foes John McCain and Mitt Romney raised money and campaigned together Thursday for a single goal -- getting McCain elected president.
''We are united. Now our job is to energize our party,'' the Arizona senator said in an airport hangar, flanked by Romney and Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., an early McCain supporter. Both have been mentioned as potential vice presidential picks, and McCain praised each.
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/march/0328_mccain_romney.shtml

McCain 2008 Veepstakes: Who is…Mitt Romney?!?
Blogger News Network - USA
He was the first of the former candidates to campaign with John McCain this past week, and they looked like they were having a good time on the plane. ...

Minnesota GOP Backs Physician for Competitive Seat
Mayo Clinic oncologist Brian Davis won the Republican endorsement at Saturday’s convention for Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, where Republicans are trying to regain the seat from first-term Democratic Rep. Tim Walz .
Davis beat out state Rep. Randy Demmer to win his party’s endorsement on the first ballot, but still faces state Sen. Dick Day in the September primary.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002694077

Another Love Gov? Giuliani Eyes Governor Bid
Gothamist - NY,USA... while in public office--former Mayor Rudy Giuliani may offer himself as a candidate for governor in the case Governor David Paterson has to step down. ...

McCain's Corporate Welfare
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Would someone explain to me the difference between Herbert Hoover ('the business of America is business") and John McCain. Hoover of course focused his ...

Analysis: John McCain, Party Of One
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
But the presumptive GOP nominee is no generic Republican candidate, and as his general election campaign launches, he’s making clear that he’s not running ...

Kondracke Craves Christie Todd as McCain Veep
Mort Kondracke got one thing right: Rush Limbaugh would go Krakatoa . . . The resident moderate of The Beltway Boys has counseled John McCain to offer the VP slot to Christie Todd Whitman. Mort made his move during last evening's show-ending "Buzz" segment.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/03/30/kondracke-craves-christie-todd-mccain-veep

Aiding Airbus a bad idea for McCain
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
John McCain for help to change some of the requirements. McCain has been a vehemently outspoken critic of Boeing since it won the previous contract by ...

Cindy, John McCain's trouble and strife
Times Online - UK
John McCain, a naval pilot, was shot down on a bombing mission over North Vietnam in 1967 and tortured so badly during the next 51/2 years in which he was ...

Scary McCain
With McCain you get the real thing while with Obama you may get an audacity of rhetoric based on nothing but political expediency and imagined racial grievances. Recent polls reveal that the American people are beginning to get it and that scares not only McCain's Democrat opponents but also European leftists, especially following his successful stops in Britain and France.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/scary_mccain.html

McCain vows hands-on role in Mideast
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
LOS ANGELES - Republican candidate John McCain said yesterday he would devote "personal deep engagement" to the Middle East peace process if he were elected ...

McCain's Gauntlet Speech
McCain's recent speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council delivered many important messages. Some were aimed at the upcoming general election campaign. Others were international messages directed toward friends, foes and those in the middle.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/mccains_gauntlet_speech.html

Morality matters: Huckabee speaks at North Hills
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
By Matt Vande Bunte Mike Huckabee affirmed Thursday during a local school fundraiser he believes a values-based education lies at the root of US democracy. ...

No changes made as official votes counted
Mount Vernon News - Mount Vernon,OH,USA
Presidential candidate John McCain gained 109 votes in the official count, to Mike Huckabee’s 97 gained. This nudged up McCain’s final winning percentage in ...

McCain Better Suited To Handle Iraq
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
John McCain over his already-famous “100 years in Iraq” comment. What McCain said at a townhall meeting in New Hampshire in January was inarguably true. ...

McCain Projects Image of Patriot on Road to General Election
FOXNews - USA
by FOXNews.com
John McCain speaks to reporters at a news conference in Denver, Colo., Thursday, as former rival Mitt Romney looks on. ...

Romney Campaigns with McCain
ToTheCenter.com - Malverne,NY,USA
One-time rivals, John McCain and Mitt Romney, were campaigning together in Utah today as they aimed to get one goal achieved: McCain winning the ...

Huckabee remains 'very active and outspoken
MLive.com - MI,USA
GRAND RAPIDS -- A pro-life emphasis and support for traditional marriage will remain at the forefront of the Republican Party platform if Mike Huckabee ...

McCain's world
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
John McCain's speech on foreign policy this week turned on terrorism and the war in Iraq. That part of his address, delivered to the Los Angeles World ...

McCain's Manifesto
Washington Post - United States
By David S. Broder What Barack Obama tried to do with the sensitive issue of race, John McCain attempted last week on the no less important topic of foreign ...

McCain Launches General Election Ad
The Associated Press - DENVER (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain launched his first television ad of the general election Friday, portraying himself as a ...

McCain's TV Ad Prompts Chatter
Washington Post - United States
John McCain launched his first television ad of the general election yesterday -- a 60-second commercial that links the candidate's heroism during the ...

McCain’s resume steps into the campaign spotlight
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
LAS VEGAS The race is on to define John McCain. The likely Republican nominee launched his first television ad of the general election campaign Friday, ...

McCain Kicks of Biographical Tour with New Ad
ABC News - USA
ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports: The campaign of Senator John McCain has launched what it’s calling its first television advertisement of the general election ...

McCain Hopes to Use Past as a Springboard
Wall Street Journal - USA
John McCain sets out to reintroduce himself to the American public in the coming week, stopping in a string of places that shaped his family, his values and ...

Jeremiah Wright continues to hurt Obama in a Missouri matchup with ...
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Rasmussen finds Republican presumptive nominee John McCain has opened up a significant lead over both Obama and Clinton in Missouri and now places the ...

Race Is on to Define McCain
The Associated Press - LAS VEGAS (AP) — The race is on to define John McCain. The likely Republican nominee launched his first television ad of the general election campaign ...

McCain Launches General Election Ad
The Associated Press - DENVER (AP) — Republican John McCain launched his first television ad of the general election Friday, a spot that shows him imprisoned in Vietnam and calls ...

Bipartisan Team Says McCain Natural Born
The Associated Press - DENVER (AP) — A pair of lawyers — one Republican, one Democrat — have concluded that John McCain's 1936 birth outside the continental United States does not ...

Ad casts McCain as strong, patriotic leader
CNN International - USA
John McCain launched his first general election ad Friday, portraying the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as an experienced, ...

McCain, the mortgage crisis, and voters with economic concerns
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
John McCain drew a sharp distinction between himself and the two remaining Democratic presidential candidates. He warned of the federal government doing too ...