DNC: A Week of Speeches Can't Reinvent a Weak Candidate

WASHINGTON, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This morning, John McCain
launches his effort to reinvent himself for the general election with a week
of speeches. After running as a so-called "maverick" and "outsider" in his
failed 2000 campaign, John McCain cast aside his principles and morphed into a
Bush Republican for this year's primaries. Now, after embracing the
President's budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy, abandoning his own
immigration reform plan to cozy up to the right wing of his party, and turning
his back on the campaign finance and lobbying reforms he once championed,
McCain is trying to reinvent himself yet again.

But John McCain has already shown how out of touch he is with the voters by
adopting President Bush's failed health care plan, marching in lockstep with
President Bush's failed Iraq strategy every step of the way, supporting
President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security, and refusing to offer a
plan to help homeowners struggling to confront the mortgage crisis.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following
statement on McCain's latest political makeover:

"John McCain deserves our respect for his service to our country, but no
reinvention tour can change the fact that a vote for him is a vote for four
more years of President Bush's failed policies. No matter how many times he
tries to reintroduce himself, the voters already know that John McCain is out
of touch with the challenges facing working families, admits he doesn't
understand the economy, and is willing to keep our troops in Iraq for 100
years. John McCain can talk about his past, but only a Democrat can bring the
change the American people want for the future."

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Damien LaVera of the Democratic National Committee, +1-202-863-8148