|
|
Article: Mccain's No Man's Land: Tilting Leftward Course For The Gop ; But Mccain Is Going To Need Some Of The Votes Of The Anti-Welfare- State Right To Pull Out A Presidential Win.
- Article from:
- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- May 7, 2008
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 2008 Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
John McCain's political course may strike some observers as
mystifying. Instead of doing what Republican candidates are supposed
to do before the general race, securing their base by moving
rightward, McCain has generally done the opposite.
This may be hard to notice if one watches the Fox network, whose
pundits have been reassuring us that McCain is mending his fences
with the conservative base.
Save for his talk about making Bush's tax cuts permanent, McCain
has not been tending to such fences. That is, unless one looks upon
more government programs for student loans, a speech in Memphis
expressing McCain's deep regret for not having rallied to the Martin
Luther King national holiday soon ...