McCain announces on CBS 'LATE SHOW' tonight he is running for President, says source that sat through taping... He was sitting in the chair when he told David Letterman and the audience. He was wildly applauded... Show set for broadcast at 11:35 PM ET... MORE...The "official" announcement will come in April.
“The last time we were on this program, I’m sure you remember everything very clearly that we say, but you asked me if I would come back on this show if I was going to announce,” Sen. McCain told Letterman. “I am announcing that I will be a candidate for President of the United States.”
Although McCain had time for the Letterman Show, he will apparently be unable to attend tomorrow's meeting of the Conservative Political Action Committee. Captain Ed thinks that's a big mistake:
McCain has argued that he has the most solid conservative record of all the major contenders, and with some cause. Yet it is hardly a secret that the Senator has a rocky relationship with conservatives in the Republican Party. After the McCain-Feingold assault on political speech, his work with Ted Kennedy on immigration, the Gang of 14 rebellion that allowed the Democrats to filibuster judicial nominees for appellate assignments for the first time in American history, and a generally hostile attitude until just recently towards social conservatives, McCain has more work than most to convince conservatives to support him.
That's why his absence makes little sense. If he wants to win conservatives, he needs to make an effort to meet them -- literally. CPAC provides a golden opportunity to do so. It's one of the oldest conservative forums in existence, and it gathers opinionmakers on the Right from across the country. If he can't be bothered to go out of his way to face conservatives there, where exactly does he plan on addressing them?
Priorities.
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