In an article today in the NY Times, more coverage was given to McCain's use of President Bush for the purposes of campaigning. Many in the GOP want to walk a very fine line - using Bush to reach the far right, but limiting his position on the campaign trail so as to not hurt McCain with the general public that do not favor Bush.
McCain and Bush try not to appear together too often...
The last time the two met — 83 days ago — President Bush promised that he would do whatever Senator John McCain asked him to do to help elect him the 44th president.
“You know, if he wants me to show up, I will,” Mr. Bush said in the Rose Garden. “If he wants me to say, ‘You know, I’m not for him,’ I will.”
On Tuesday, Mr. Bush’s role became much clearer when he held his first event for Mr. McCain. He will show up to raise money (thank you very much), and he will say and do as little as possible, at least in public view.
A large, and presumably public, fund-raiser at the Convention Center here was hastily rescheduled for the seclusion of a private home on Tuesday evening in Scottsdale. Mr. McCain’s main public appearance of the day was a foreign policy speech in Denver, not the visit by the president to his home state.
Mr. McCain used the speech, like others in recent weeks, to draw differences between his policies and Mr. Bush’s, even as Democrats redoubled their efforts to lash them together into an inextricable McBush ’08.
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