{"id":15422,"date":"2008-05-03T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/15422.html"},"modified":"2008-05-03T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T17:30:41","slug":"like-two-peas-in-a-conservative-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/like-two-peas-in-a-conservative-pod\/","title":{"rendered":"Like two peas in a conservative pod"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just yesterday, Reuters reported<\/a>, “Slowly but surely, Republican presidential candidate John McCain is putting some distance between himself and unpopular President George W. Bush.”<\/p>\n

Don’t believe it<\/a>. (via TP<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A senior adviser to John McCain says the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign is now talking with senior White House staff every day.<\/p>\n

President Bush and McCain, former GOP rivals, “have an excellent relationship,” Charlie Black said at a lunch hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.<\/p>\n

Black said McCain is “not a protege” of President Bush and would not be an extension of Bush’s presidency as Democrats have claimed. He cited McCain’s differences with Bush on federal spending and the initial war strategy, but was clear that Bush’s White House team is helping the presumptive Republican nominee at every turn of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Black said the White House got a “head’s up” earlier this week before McCain called out Bush for his poor handling of hurricane Katrina in 2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McCain has Bush’s staff, Bush’s platform, Bush’s foreign policy vision, and Bush’s economic agenda. And now McCain’s and Bush’s team coordinate on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

And yet, there’s Karl Rove<\/a> arguing on national television, “[I]f you try and say John McCain is George Bush, that simply lacks credibility with a wide number of Americans.”<\/p>\n

McCain is Bush, only older and with slightly better grammar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just yesterday, Reuters reported, “Slowly but surely, Republican presidential candidate John McCain is putting some distance between himself and unpopular President George W. Bush.” Don’t believe it. (via TP) A senior adviser to John McCain says the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign is now talking with senior White House staff every day. President Bush and McCain, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}