by Jill Zuckman
Florence, S.C. – With all the talking that presidential candidates do, it’s surprising that they don’t twist up their words more often.
One day before South Carolina voters go to the polls to decide who they want to be the Republican nominee for president, Sen. John McCain has been suffering from slips of the tongue.
En route to his first town hall meeting this morning, McCain was talking on his bus about the homogenization of America. Wherever he goes, he sees the same businesses.
“Home Depot, Huckabee’s,” he said, as the supporters and reporters on the bus began to laugh. “Applebee’s!” he corrected.
With former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee close on his heels in South Carolina, perhaps it was really a Freudian slip.
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Then at the town hall meeting, McCain, who is a Vietnam veteran and regularly attracts large numbers of veterans to his campaign events, was repeatedly asked about issues of concern to veterans. As he wrapped up a riff about veterans’ health care and whether spouses should have access to the same veterans’ health benefits, he was asked for his position on amnesty.
“I’ve never supported amnesty nor have I supported Social Security benefits for veterans,” McCain said, as his audience gasped. “Whoops! Never for veterans! For illegal immigrants. See what I said, ‘the heck with you veterans.'”
For the record, the audience laughed heartily as he corrected himself.