McCain vows he'll win in South Carolina

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Thursday that despite his second-place finish in Michigan's GOP primary he intends to win this state's first-in-the-South contest.


The Arizona senator told supporters he would prevail in the state that eight years ago derailed his candidacy.

"Tonight, my friends, we congratulate another candidate's campaign but tomorrow we get up and fight," said the Arizona senator, who flew here late Tuesday evening to await the Michigan returns.

After a victory in last week's New Hampshire primary, McCain had led in national polls. But the Michigan victory for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney further scrambled the dynamics.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/mccain_ap_interview

---

McCain camp challenges mailer's claims
By JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press Writer
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Supporters of Republican John McCain on Tuesday assailed a mailer sent to state newspaper editors claiming he sold out fellow POWs to get better treatment while held prisoner in Vietnam.


"Nothing could be further from the truth. I know because I was there," Orson Swindle, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and former prisoner of war, said in a statement about the mailing from Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain.

The group's organizer, Jerry Kiley, who said he also is a Vietnam veteran, said in a telephone phone interview that he has been trying for years to spread what he said is the truth about McCain's record.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_mailer_2

John McCain mailer has Mitt Romney campaign crying foul
Updated: Monday, January 14, 2008 - 6:46 pm

By Tim Smith
STAFF WRITER
[e-mail]


COLUMBIA -- Some supporters of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney cried foul today over a mailer sent to South Carolina households by the campaign of Republican rival John McCain, even as McCain�s campaign said it planned to file a complaint over a Colorado-based group of Mike Huckabee supporters that uses an automated telephone polling system.

The protests came on the eve of the Michigan GOP primary and five days before South Carolina Republicans head to the polls to help choose a presidential nominee.

The mailer, which began arriving in homes over the weekend, accuses Romney, while governor of Massachusetts, of raising taxes by $700 million, providing taxpayer-funded abortions, and having "refused to endorse President Bush�s tax cut plan."

more:
http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080114/NEWS03/80114048

[ladywnch]

1. sounds like their one step away from eating their young! LOL eom

[Endangered Specie]

2. They can keep on hanging each other as far as I am concerned.

[deacon]

3. Another comeback? The top 3 each now have a comeback :)) n/t

[Tesha]

4. Huck comes back, McCain "gets the silver", Romney gets the boot.

(Unless people still remember McCain's black love child.)

Tesha

[bigworld]

5. Here's the site referred to in the mailer

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/index.htm -- now that looks legit! Wonder who's behind it?