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Politics : Those Damned Democrat's
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To: calgal who wrote (942)3/5/2003 12:01:34 AM
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McCain's Challenge to Democrats

URL:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39832-2003Mar4.html





By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 4, 2003; Page A06

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) thinks it's time for some Democratic presidential candidate to have a Sister Souljah moment.

McCain was speaking before the Magazine Publishers of America yesterday and was asked whether he believed religious conservatives have too much influence in the Republican Party. He recalled the speech he had given during his 2000 presidential campaign attacking Pat Robertson and the Rev. Jerry Falwell as intolerant and warning that they were trying to lead the GOP in the wrong direction. "Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell on the right," McCain said in that speech.

Sharpton has since become a presidential candidate and received a warm reception at the recent Democratic National Committee meeting, despite a history of what his critics call racial agitation. McCain believes that a straight-talking Democrat should take on Sharpton as bad for the party. "The Democrats should reject Sharpton," he said.

In 1992, presidential candidate Bill Clinton attacked a rap singer named Sister Souljah at a conference hosted by Jesse L. Jackson in what was widely seen as Clinton's effort to show his independence from Jackson and appeal to moderate voters.

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