NASHUA, N.H. - A senior adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has agreed to plead guilty to drunken driving after the arresting officer was ordered to Iraq making a trial on a more serious charge impossible, police said Monday.
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The Hillary, is just getting desperate so to speak and is now talking about economics. It's the economy stupid! No, Hillary you just don't get it.
ANYWAYS. The New York Times is talking about how McCain once discussed becoming a Democrat in 2004 and about leaving the party in 2001. Okay, okay obviously the Times is trying to remove his support which, they perceive as coming from the consevative republican base, they want to weaken him so to speak. They are wrong about that perception, but let them be wrong. The truth is that McCain's visit to CPAC this year which, he skipped last year, was fraught with tension and trouble.
Attendees of the event mourned Romney's decision to suspend his campaign, in fact people described it as a suspension instead of what it was, the end. When McCain gave his speech people were polite but they began acting much like hurt wives or girlfriends, distrusting, pouty and begrudgingly gave him his welcome.
Whatever the case, those two incidents the NYT is referring to are not the moments that caused the rift with the conservative base. The base has for the most part put the past behind them. What is key to note about those moments is that they reflect McCain's feelings of rejection after loosing the nomination to Bush for the 2000 race and his own political journey which led to the talks with Kerry. The talks with Kerry that, held no special importance and to a Washington insider appear to be like so many other things that happen among politicians which are more about maneuvers and press than anything real.
Although, if you find yourself listening to stories about McCain the past womanizer, or McCain the navy brat, well those will never go away. Some gossip is too juicy to die.
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