“I’ve known John McCain for 20 years,” he said Tuesday on The Washington Times’ “America’s Morning News” radio show. “He has served our country as a person in the military, a prisoner of war. He’s a patriot. He’s fought hard for this country in the Senate. . . . The bottom line is he has served this nation with incredible valor and courage.”
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Such a position distances Mr. Pawlenty, 49, from many of the Republican Party’s most powerful factions — conservatives, “tea party” activists and media personalities such as Fox TV host Glenn Beck and talk-radio personality Rush Limbaugh.
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