McCain Addresses Iowa Supporters

By: Andante Higgins
Topics: John McCain

(CBS)

From CBS News' Dante Higgins:

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- As returns filed in projecting Mike Huckabee the winner of the Iowa caucus, a beaming John McCain addressed the press in New Hampshire.

"I just left a phone message...to congratulate Governor Huckabee for his victory. He's run a very good, strong positive campaign and I think he can be very proud of it," he said. "I think that the lesson of this election is that one you can't buy an election in Iowa and two that negative campaigning doesn't work."

McCain blamed finances for his tie for third in the Iowa.

"Because of our financials we didn't run any ads and we were predicted to finish very badly. I am proud of the team that we had on the ground and the work that we did."

With a stage full of supporters cheering and screaming his name, McCain then shifted his focus to New Hampshire. "Tomorrow we will have our hundredth town hall meeting here in the state of New Hampshire ... We can feel momentum, the same kind of momentum we felt in 2000. I'm very confident about a strong positive finish here. That we're going to win here in New Hampshire and go on to Michigan and South Carolina."

"I would repeat I know how town halls work. I know enthusiasm when I see it. We put the old lightning back in the bottle."

"I would again extend my congratulations to Governor Huckabee who I think ran a very good campaign in Iowa. I look forward to seeing him on the trail and I know that he'll continue his positive campaigning and look forward to that kind of campaign with him as we go further into the primary season. Again we're having a great time here in New Hampshire and I am very confident of victory."

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by scottfromaz January 4, 2008 4:09 PM EST: A Republican stronghold will now not vote Republican because of Huckabee, he insults Rush Limbaugh and every east coast Republican.

Pisses off half the Republican base in the west who are LDS and somehow he''''s going win the general election.

Let me tell you guys right now, I will hire a company to distribute 100,000 in 6 different states and flyers about how he raised taxes in Arkansas, and let 12 convicted murders walk because they found Jesus, one later killed someone in Missouri, because Huckabee.

6 ethic violations by Huckabee that he was found guilty of. Guilty.

His son hung a dog from a tree and beat it to death. And Huck try to cover it up.

Wanted Quranteed AIDS patients in 1992 and stills stand by that.

And you annoint this guy because you hate Romney''''s religon so much you support this guy.

I will do the flyers in each of the following states Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming and Idaho

Go ahead if you want open borders and a bad economy elect Huckabee/McCain 2008; Reply to this comment


by funuvit January 4, 2008 1:32 PM EST: I find it hard to believe in this day and age how Mike Huckabee was able to pull off the political crime of the century. If Mike Huckabee had made a racial statement about a black candidate or a sexist comment about a female candidate, American would have not allowed him to capitalize on such statements. Why did his religious bigotry toward another candidates faith not bring such rath from a nation that has worked for hundreds of years to put such thinking behind us. What a double standard and everyone seems blind to it even though it was exactly what brought Mike Huckabee to the forefront in Iowa.; Reply to this comment