Maybe McCain shoud be worrying the GOP's "Communist repression"

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instead of worrying about Hillary being "passed over."

The Barr camp, meanwhile, said the lawsuit is nothing more than a ploy to dislodge Barr’s Pennsylvania campaign. Barr, a former Republican congressman from Georgia, runs on a conservative platform that some fear could splinter the McCain vote. Pennsylvania, meanwhile, has 21 electoral votes -- a valuable territory in a race that many polls list as running neck-in-neck.

"This move by the McCain campaign completely contradicts everything John McCain stood for in 2000 when his competitors were trying to keep him off the ballot," Barr said in a statement issued Thursday. "McCain has become a part of the same corrupted machine he spoke vehemently against only eight years ago."

In his statement, Barr accuses McCain of hypocrisy, citing a New York Times report from the 2000 election cycle that detailed McCain’s struggle with George W. Bush to get on the New York ballot.

The Times quoted McCain as saying: ''People should be able to get on the ballot in states. I'm sure that if Gov. Bush told them, don't do that, don't remove McCain's name, they would respond. Everybody knows that I am a legitimate candidate. I should be on the ballot.''

When asked if Barr presents a threat to McCain's vote tallies, McCain spokesman Paul Lindsay said the race will ultimately come down to a choice between McCain and Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama.

"Ultimately, this election comes down to a choice between two candidates and their clear differences on the issues that matter most to American families," Lindsay said. "John McCain has a strong record of reform and a plan to create jobs, a stark contrast to Barack Obama’s tired political rhetoric that will do nothing to get our economy moving again."

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McCain Urges Bush to Halt New York Ballot Challenge

By JODI WILGOREN
Published: January 14, 2000

Invoking images of Communist repression, Senator John McCain called today on Gov. George W. Bush to stop Bush supporters in New York State from challenging Mr. McCain's petition to appear on New York presidential primary ballots.

Noting that New York's governor, George E. Pataki, and the state Republican chairman, William D. Powers, have both endorsed his opponent for the Republican nomination, Mr. McCain said Mr. Bush could easily give the signal for them to back off.

''We all know that the Berlin wall is down,'' Mr. McCain said as he rode a campaign bus between events here. ''People should be able to get on the ballot in states. I'm sure that if Governor Bush told them, don't do that, don't remove McCain's name, they would respond. Everybody knows that I am a legitimate candidate. I should be on the ballot.''

At a campaign stop in Portsmouth, N.H., Mr. Bush said he would leave the question of who appears on the ballot up to local party officials, regardless of their connection to his campaign.

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1. We know Bush is a Fascist not a Communist,

but this is still hilariously ironic.