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McCain Can Try to Reinvent Himself, But Rhode Islanders Aren’t Buying It

This morning, John McCain launches his effort to reinvent himself for the general election with a week of speeches. After running as a so-called “maverick” and “outsider” in his failed 2000 campaign, John McCain cast aside his principles and morphed into a Bush Republican for this year’s primaries. Now, after embracing the President’s budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy, abandoning his own immigration reform plan to cozy up to the right wing of his party, and turning his back on the campaign finance and lobbying reforms he once championed, McCain is trying to reinvent himself yet again.

But John McCain has already shown how out of touch he is with the problems Rhode Island families face. He has adopted President Bush’s failed health care plan, and marched in lockstep with President Bush’s failed Iraq strategy that over 4,000 brave troops have lost their lives for, twelve of them from Rhode Island. He has supported President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security, and refused to offer a plan to help homeowners struggling to confront the mortgage crisis, including the growing number of families in Rhode Island who are delinquent on their mortgages.

“John McCain can try to reinvent himself, but Rhode Island’s voters aren’t buying it,” said RI Democratic Party Chairman Bill Lynch. “The fact is, McCain is out of touch with the challenges facing Rhode Island’s families and won’t provide the leadership we need to end the war in Iraq, help working families gain access to health care, and fix the economy. And while we honor McCain’s service to our country, nothing can change the fact that he offers a third term of George W. Bush, and that’s the last thing Rhode Islanders want.”

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