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McCain: ‘Life isn’t fair’ |
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By Klaus Marre
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Posted: 08/17/07 12:27 PM [ET] |
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) painted a positive picture of his presidential campaign Friday, saying that “Money is coming in OK” and expressing his conviction that voters will consider him the right man to lead the country in dangerous times. McCain, who began the campaign as a favorite to win the Republican nomination, has struggled in the polls and with fundraising. He has fallen behind former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Sen. Fred Thompson (Tenn.), who still has not formally announced his decision to run. McCain currently is competing for third place in national polls with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who runs a surging campaign that is much better funded. The Arizona senator Friday told CNN, “Campaigns have ups and downs,” a mantra that he and aides have adopted since the campaign’s decline. McCain complained that the public sees him as a strong supporter of President Bush’s Iraq strategy, when in fact he frequently criticized how the war was handled initially. The senator long has been a supporter of sending additional troops to Iraq to control the insurgency. “It’s entertaining, in that I was the greatest critic of the initial four years, three and a half years,” McCain said. “I came back from my first trip to Iraq and said, ‘This is going to fail. We’ve got to change the strategy’ to the one we’re using now. But life isn’t fair.” |
