Thursday October 30, 2008
Remember back on February 3, when John McCain appeared at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield?
Of course you don’t, that’s why you’re reading the Blogster. Well it was Super Bowl Sunday and McCain told about 2,000 supporters – along with a handful of hecklers – that if he won the GOP nomination he’d revisit Connecticut during the presidential campaign.
Guess what? He did and he didn’t.
Yes, McCain lied to Connecticut and their potential 7 whopping electoral votes. It’s testament to Connecticut’s expected imminent support of Barack Obama.
Chris Healy, chairman of the state GOP, just offered up a mea culpa.
“We still have 4-5 days to go,” Healy parsed, briefly. “I don’t think he should come here. Clearly the map is what it is. The support he has in the state continues to be strong.”
Healy said McCain’s February promise “was made in the heat of the moment” and that Republicans understand McCain has to attend to the battleground states with the big electoral votes.
“Anyway, he was scheduled to be here for a fundraiser earlier this fall, but he had a scheduling conflict,” Healy said over the phone. “In a sense he was good on it. These things happen.Certainly he’s not a stranger to the people of the state. I’m encouraged by what we see out there in the real world.”