November 28, 2007
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ANDERSON -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain told an audience here Tuesday that he's the candidate to return the GOP to its traditional tight-fisted guardianship of America's tax dollars.
The Arizona senator told a crowd of approximately 150 in the Anderson County Arts Center that his party's loss of its congressional majorities in 2006 occurred not because of Iraq but because "we betrayed our base" through big spending and corruption.
As president, McCain said he would halt the use of congressional earmarks for pork-barrel spending and would make ample use of a veto pen given him by President Ronald Reagan while naming names of those playing fast and loose with tax money.
McCain campaigned earlier in Seneca and this morning will hold another town hall meeting at the Strom Thurmond Institute on the Clemson University campus.
Fresh from a Thanksgiving trip to Iraq that he said renewed his confidence in ultimate victory, McCain challenged comments made by Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York in a morning appearance in Spartanburg.
Clinton told a crowd of 500 that a military solution is not possible, the Baghdad government has failed politically and the Bush administration failed diplomatically.
McCain said of Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
"She was the one who when Gen. Petraeus came in
September that said she would have to suspend disbelief in order to believe that
it's not working,"
"It is succeeding,"he said of the Bush administration's troop surge and shift to a counterinsurgency strategy.
"Six, seven months ago, Sen. ClintonMcCain said.
and the liberal Democrats were saying it would never work militarily... that it
was lost. They now continue to want to withdraw, which if we had done six months
ago what Sen. Clinton wanted, al-Qaida would be trumpeting to the world that
they beat the United States of America,"
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