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Published: Sat, February 02, 2008 - 1:04 pm
Last Updated: Sat, February 02, 2008 - 8:22 pm
Last Updated: Sat, February 02, 2008 - 8:22 pm
presidential campaign swing through Tennessee and Alabama today,
addressed concerns raised by talk show host Rush Limbaugh, author
Ann Coulter and some other conservatives about whether he can unite
Republicans if he's the nominee.
McCain says he believes that the majority of the Republican
Party conservatives are convinced that he's the best equipped to
lead this country, unify the party and take on the challenge of
radical Islamic extremism.
McCain says he had a 24-year record in the Senate of "fighting
for the rights of the unborn" and boasted that he never asked for
a single earmark or pork barrel project for his home state of
Arizona.
In Birmingham, he told a crowd of more than 800 people that the
Senate must pass the president's economic stimulus package, make
President Bush's tax cuts permanent and cut the corporate tax rate.
NEW YORK (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee
complained today that he always gets "the God questions" when
he'd rather be talking about public policy, and denied there's any
conflict between his faith and the right things to do as president.
Huckabee, speaking from Montgomery, Alabama, addressed a
youth-oriented audience by satellite, one of four candidates who
agreed to participate in the forum sponsored by MTV, The Associated
Press and MySpace.
The former Baptist preacher was asked almost right off if he
would be capable of making decisions in the Oval Office that might
be at odds with his religion.
"There's not this glaring conflict," he says. "Faith helps me
to understand what is right."
Religious conservatives have provided much of Huckabee's support
and he's not been shy about courting them, an effort that continues
in the last stretch before the more than 20 presidential nomination
contests across the country Tuesday.
Says Huckabee: "I always get asked the God questions," adding
that "it's really been frustrating" that people don't want to
know more about his work as Arkansas governor.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A presidential candidate's ability to
raise money in Alabama apparently does not indicate voter support
because the top two fundraisers have dropped out of the race.
And so has number four.
Fundraising reports filed by the candidates show that Democrat
John Edwards was the top fundraiser in Alabama, hauling in $451,000
during 2007. Republican Rudy Giuliani was second with $342,000.
Both candidates dropped out Wednesday.
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was number three in Alabama,
taking in $307,000 during the last year.
Republican Fred Thompson was next with $275,000, but he has also
dropped out.
Rounding out the fundraising were Republican Mitt Romney with
$247,000, Democrat Barack Obama with $217,000, Republican John
McCain with $176,000, Republican Ron Paul with $140,000, and
Republican Mike Huckabee with $56,000.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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John McCain is determined to open the subject of amnesty all over again. All he needs now is the people living in Alabama and other southern states to give him the power. He must not get any help from our state. With 28 million illegal immigrants roaming inside the interior of our country, electing a President like McCain would just open the gates of hell for every country to send us their poor.
He wants to fight over seas, but he will not fight for our own country this year, for this reason. It’s simple, pick another one who doesn’t support amnesty or enforcing our nation’s immigration laws.