3,704 Miles
John McCain flew 3,704 miles during the final full day of the 2008 campaign, reports NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy.
The Arizona senator made 7 stops, beginning in Miami - then onto Tampa - Blountville, TN - Pittsburgh (Moon Township) PA - Indianapolis, IN - Roswell, NM - Henderson, NV - Prescott, AZ, ending the whirlwind in Phoenix.
In Prescott, AZ, last night, at the Yavapai County Court House, some 5,000 plus turned out for the GOP nom's final rally. One hundred or more Barack Obama protesters perched across the street from McCain's event.
The Yavapai County Court House is where Barry Goldwater launched several of his campaigns.
While introducing him, Cindy McCain got a little choked up saying how proud she was of her husband, and McCain got somewhat emotional, too, near the end of his 10-minute unscripted remarks when he thanked Arizonans for giving him the chance to serve.
McCain told his favorite story about the curse of Arizona, recounting that Mo Udall used to ask sympathy for the people of Arizona for being maybe the only state where mothers can't tell their children that one day they can grow up to be president. He said that tomorrow he was going to reverse that trend. McCain said that it had been a long journey to win his party's nomination, but he knows that he can win if only his supporters can get out the vote.
McSame is now telling us "Mac is back." Yeah at the back of the pack and in the loser's circle. All that is lefft now is to determine how big a landslide he is going to be buried under. Had McSame actually still had been a "maverick," he'd have bucked the GOP, reputdiated the neo-cons, selected something other than Sarah Palin (a stapler would have been a better choice), run the clean and honorable campaign he promised, and done a bit more campaigning tan one event per day M-F, he may have had a good chane of beating Obama. Theis election was McCain's to lose, and he did an excellent job of it.
I am a proud Republican from the Regan time. I believe even Regan turned several times in his grave when he saw what is going on in the Republican party, not to mention Sara Palin. She professionally destroyed the Republican campaign and I hope everybody knows that. She is one of the main reasons conservative republicans such as myself could not vote today for McCain. I was torn between the young, honest, enthusiastic candidate and the experienced, poor decision-maker. Selecting Sara Palin as a VP showed McCain's poor decision-making ability! Cannot even imagine him making more important decisions on behalf of all Americans. Today, I am proud to be an American but not proud to be a McCain/Palin follower.
I am a proud Republican from the Regan time. I believe even Regan turned several times in his grave when he saw what is going on in the Republican party, not to mention Sara Palin. She professionally destroyed the Republican campaign and I hope everybody knows that. She is one of the main reasons conservative republicans such as myself could not vote today for McCain. I was torn between the young, honest, enthusiastic candidate and the experienced, poor decision-maker. Selecting Sara Palin as a VP showed McCain's poor decision-making ability! Cannot even imagine him making more important decisions on behalf of all Americans. Today, I am proud to be an American but not proud to be a McCain/Palin follower.