Republican South Carolina debate: on Government Reform


John McCain: I’m “the sheriff”, not Miss Congeniality, about pork bills

As president, I know how to stop the spending. I won’t let another pork-barrel earmark spending bill cross my desk without vetoing it, & I’ll make the authors of it famous. I saved the taxpayers $6 billion on a bogus tanker deal. I’m called “the sheriff” by my friends in the Senate who are the appropriators, and I didn’t win Miss Congeniality. And as president, I won’t win Miss Congeniality, either. I’ll stop the outrageous spending, and that’ll be the best thing that can happen to America’s economy.
Source: 2008 GOP debate in S.C. sponsored by Fox News Jan 10, 2008

  • The above quotations are from Republican presidential debate sponsored by Fox News, moderated by Brit Hume & Chris Wallace, in South Carolina on Jan. 10, 2008, days before the South Carolina primary..
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