DETROIT FREE PRESS ENDORSES JOHN MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT
"McCain's steadiness, consistency make him the choice for Michigan Republicans ... [McCain] is the best candidate to carry the GOP banner into the fall." -- Detroit Free Press
Sen. McCain Would Make Strongest GOP Nominee
McCain's steadiness, consistency make him the choice for Michigan Republicans
Editorial
Detroit Free Press
January 6, 2008
Eight years ago, endorsing U.S. Sen. John McCain in the Michigan Republican presidential primary, the Free Press said he was "an articulate hardliner on how the United States should lead the world" and the best candidate in a GOP field that included George W. Bush. ... Eight years later, he is running again, and JOHN MCCAIN is, again, the best candidate to carry the GOP banner into the fall. While the Free Press differs with McCain on a number of issues, the Arizona senator is a smarter, more tested and pragmatic leader who has shown since 2000 that he knows how to build bipartisan alliances around issues. He's a straight shooter, sometimes to his detriment in the political world, where McCain also loses points for persistently championing needed campaign reforms and criticizing pork-barrel spending that benefits special interests. McCain's latest campaign faltered early in this overextended election season. But he has regrouped, and while polls do not show him as the GOP front-runner, they do consistently show that he fares best against any of the leading Democrats. That has to be a consideration for Republican voters with the party expected to lose more ground in Congress next year. McCain, with his appeal to independent voters, looks at this time like the best bet to keep the White House in GOP hands.
