To: chalu2 who wrote (520 ) 2/22/2000 7:42:00 AM From: Zoltan! Read Replies (1) | Respond to
I wouldn't doubt that you know about 5th rate schools, you probably tried to get in many.COLUMBIA, S.C.--As if his devastating loss to Gov. George W. Bush in South Carolina's primary were not enough, Sen. John McCain compounded the damage within hours after the verdict became known early Saturday evening. He demonstrated why only a handful of fellow Republican senators support him, and why many had come here to campaign against their colleague.... McCain, in a scripted speech, labeled his victorious opponent as a candidate of "pretense" mouthing "an empty slogan of reform" and practicing "negative conservatism." That made a sham of McCain's claim of having sworn off negative campaigning.... South Carolina shattered the illusions--shared by the candidate himself--that McCain was the forerunner of a broad-based reform movement inside the Republican Party. And the outcome defined Bush's strengths, and weaknesses, as well.... Former Sen. Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, McCain's national co-chairman (and his designated choice to be attorney general in a McCain administration), immediately belittled the South Carolina returns because religious conservatives comprised 33 percent of the Republican vote. But in fact, Bush enjoys a strong lead over McCain with avowed Republicans all over the country. South Carolina is not exceptional. It turns out that the McCain national insurgency stems mainly from the imagination of the senator's advisers and the mass media. There was a palpable sense of grief here Saturday among liberal journalists, who had improbably adopted McCain as their candidate.... suntimes.com
