TENNESSEE TOWNHALL WITH JOHN MCCAIN

The Tennessee Republican Party welcomes Senator John McCain to Nashville Monday, June 2nd for a Townhall meeting at the Ryman Auditorium joined by former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and former Senator Fred Thompson.

Please join John McCain whose policies clearly support a commitment to victory in the Global War on Terror; a determination to keep your hard-earned money in your pocket–not wasted by excessive government spending; a vision for affordable health care without socializing the system and the patient; a plan to save Social Security and Medicare…just a few issues that will put John McCain in complete contrast to the liberal elite policies of Barack Obama.

Doors open at the Ryman Auditorium at 12:30 p.m. CT. The Ryman Auditorium is located on Fifth Avenue North near the Nashville Convention Center.

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ARLINGTON, VA - U.S. Senator John McCain issued the following statement on Senator Barack Obama’s remarks concerning veterans benefits:

“It is typical, but no less offensive that Senator Obama uses the Senate floor to take cheap shots at an opponent and easy advantage of an issue he has less than zero understanding of. Let me say first in response to Senator Obama, running for President is different than serving as President. The office comes with responsibilities so serious that the occupant can’t always take the politically easy route without hurting the country he is sworn to defend. Unlike Senator Obama, my admiration, respect and deep gratitude for America’s veterans is something more than a convenient campaign pledge. I think I have earned the right to make that claim.

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LEGISLATING AND LOBBYING UNDER ONE ROOF

The issue of judicial selection got more interesting in Tennessee. Last week the TRP Weekly Report provided the contrast that State Republicans were working to uphold the Tennessee Constitution to elect judges in opposition to Democrats who prefer to than select them, as is the current process. This week, Democrat House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, continuing his push for the unconstitutional selection, was joined by his wife and lobbyist, Betty Anderson, who made appearances on behalf of the TN Bar Association.

Tennessee Democrats see nothing questionable about legislating and lobbying permitted from the same household.

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Mainstream voters reject his arrogant, condescending extreme liberalism

NASHVILLE, TN - After weeks of attempting to deflect the reality of the statements made by Senator Barack Obama that reveal an elite, condescending distance from the average working man and woman of Tennessee, the primary results of Kentucky verify the facts that are replayed in primaries in several states: Barack Obama is an inexperienced junior senator mouthing shopworn liberal clichés and promising policies of massive government expansion, increased taxes and bending over backwards before our enemies – views that are out of step with mainstream, heartland America.

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