http://sorendayton.com/2007/03/29/mccain-daschle-and-2001/ Merely an aggregation of a dispersed life online Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:08:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://sorendayton.com/2007/03/29/mccain-daschle-and-2001/comment-page-1/#comment-1981 PolState.com » Blog Archive » R.I.P. John McCain’s presidential hope Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:02:43 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/03/29/mccain-daschle-and-2001/#comment-1981 [...] Lastly, two stories out this week that McCain was planning to switch sides - or at least switch allegiences can’t be helping him with Republican primary voters. He’s denied John Kerry’s claim, recorded by MyDD that McCain went to the Kerry camp to ask for the VP spot. McCain did say in response that the Kerry campaign approached him at least three times. He’s also denied the claim by former Senate Minority leader Tomn Daschle that he was ready to go Independent in 2001, thereby swinging control to the Democrats. It was a move Jim Jeffords made first. (Jack M. at Ace of Spades adds some pretty useful straight up information on this.) [...] [...] Lastly, two stories out this week that McCain was planning to switch sides – or at least switch allegiences can’t be helping him with Republican primary voters. He’s denied John Kerry’s claim, recorded by MyDD that McCain went to the Kerry camp to ask for the VP spot. McCain did say in response that the Kerry campaign approached him at least three times. He’s also denied the claim by former Senate Minority leader Tomn Daschle that he was ready to go Independent in 2001, thereby swinging control to the Democrats. It was a move Jim Jeffords made first. (Jack M. at Ace of Spades adds some pretty useful straight up information on this.) [...]

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