{"id":1568,"date":"2004-04-12T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1568.html"},"modified":"2004-04-12T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T16:23:24","slug":"a-shermanesque-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-shermanesque-no\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shermanesque ‘No’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think we can finally put this one to rest. From yesterday’s Meet the Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Tim Russert: Would you under any circumstances run as John Kerry’s vice president?<\/p>\n

John McCain: When my kids were smaller, my wife used to wear a T-shirt that said, “What part of no don’t you understand?” I’d like to start wearing that T-shirt myself. No, no and no. I will not leave the Republican Party. I cherish the ideals and principles of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. I will not be vice president of the United States under any circumstances. I feel I can be far more effective in helping shape policy in the future of this country as a United States senator, and I will not, I will not, stand for vice president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Russert: What if you could stay as a Republican?<\/p>\n

McCain: It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. I will not. I will not change.<\/p>\n

Russert: And you’ll vote for George W. Bush?<\/p>\n

McCain: I am supporting President Bush. I have already campaigned for him. I am his co- chairman with Senator Jon Kyl in Arizona for his re-election. I believe that President Bush deserves re- election. Have we agreed on every issue? Of course not. We didn’t agree on every issue when we ran against each other in the primary.<\/p>\n

Russert: Well, you disagree with him on tax cuts, global warming, Medicare reform, gay marriage, energy bill. The list is long.<\/p>\n

McCain: I agree with him on Iraq, on national security policy, on a broad variety of domestic issues that I think are important to the future of the country. And, yes, we have disagreement, but we have a cordial relationship. By the way, I’d like to mention that. And I think that he deserves re-election to be president of the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I will never mention it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think we can finally put this one to rest. From yesterday’s Meet the Press: Tim Russert: Would you under any circumstances run as John Kerry’s vice president? John McCain: When my kids were smaller, my wife used to wear a T-shirt that said, “What part of no don’t you understand?” I’d like to start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}