GOP campaign managers slim on details at Harvard - News

GOP campaign managers slim on details at Harvard - News: " Media Credit: Sara Hartman Senior campaign advisers for three major candidates for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination fielded questions last night at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, but many in the audience made up of mostly students said they were disappointed by the answers -- and non-answers -- the top strategists gave. Though strategists for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said their respective candidates support President Bush's current Iraq strategies, they said they were not qualified to comment on audience members' questions about specific war policies -- or on social issues such as AIDS relief in Africa, national healthcare and gay rights. When one student asked McCain campaign adviser Rick Davis about how the candidate feels about being the 'face of Iraq' for the 2008 presidential race, Davis declined to comment about McCain's policies. 'Iraq will be the transcendent issue of our time,' he said. McCain has come under fire recently by Democrats and some Republicans in Congress for his open support for Bush's plan to increase troops levels in Iraq. He did say his candidate will not bow to pressure from the public, which has grown increasingly impatient with the war. 'You can't be there and get out at the same time,' Davis said.