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Backing the wrong horses took McCain out of race

The Arizona Daily Star

...The no-nonsense, outsider McCain of 2000 who appealed to a broad cross-section gave way to the McCain of 2007, an insider pol who took the wrong positions with the wrong constituencies.

He supports an unpopular war initiated by an unpopular Republican president. Yet he joined with two leading Senate Democrats in support of comprehensive immigration reform and campaign-finance reform.

While McCain positioned himself as a leader of a blue-red country, Republican activists seethed red and turned blue with anger. McCain wasn't about to win his party's nomination without the support of bedrock Republicans. McCain is considered a traitor to some Republicans.

Posted by Editor at July 13, 2007 07:49 AM

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