A memorable exchange between McCain and an Iowa citizen over the weekend…
Senator McCain had a memorable exchange with a citizen in Waukee, Iowa, over the weekend. As reported in the Knoxville News Sentinel:
WAUKEE, Iowa - Sen. John McCain was wrapping up his last campaign speech at a weekend rally when an audience member turned the tables.
Don’t listen to the “screwballs” in the media and the voices “on the left,” the man lectured. He told the Arizona Republican to stick to his guns, particularly in defending the war in Iraq.
“Senator, you’re too nice,” said the man, Ron Coppi, 69, of West Des Moines, Iowa. “I want you to be a modern-day Winston Churchill. You need to be that because you need to be heard over the din. These people will not listen. You’re just plain too nice. You need to tell them what’s at stake here.”
The presidential contender stared at the ground and deadpanned into the microphone: “If you’re not busy, I’d like to take you with me.” There was a burst of laughter inside the big tent at Waukee’s Centennial Park…
In Waukee, the same man who gave McCain his pep talk also ripped into Congress for passing legislation authorizing a border fence in 2006, only to leave out the money to pay for it.
“If that border had been secured, senator, and if you put some troops down there, whatever, and showed the public you were really serious about this, I absolutely am certain you would have gotten everything you wanted in this bill,” Coppi said.
“Thank you, sir,” McCain said. “I’m not sure I want to take you with me.”
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