Staying On The Go And In The News!

Politico has an article out today that talks about what Sen. John McCain will be doing in the weeks ahead to remain in the public eye, and from the sound of it, he has some great plans (Emphasis added is mine)!

Next week, joined by his wife and mother, McCain will launch a trip billed as the “Service to America Tour,” which will take the Arizona senator from his family’s ancestral home of Mississippi to his alma mater at Annapolis and to two of the stateside postings he had in Florida during his Navy days.

Each day will feature an event designed to drive a different theme drawn from McCain’s experience at each locale. To focus media attention on the otherwise make-news events he’ll do a round of morning show interviews, hit the cable television circuit, make a guest appearance on the David Letterman show and do some Sunday morning television programs.

The following week, McCain will pivot from his biography back to another favored topic, and try to get his cut of what is sure to drive the week’s discussion.

With Gen. David Petraeus scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill April 8, McCain will spend some rare time in senatorial mode, using his position on the Armed Services Committee to lend a measure of moral support to the Iraq commander.

And McCain will do his best to frame the political contours of Petraeus’s testimony with a speech the day before at a Veterans of Foreign Wars event in Kansas City. Much of McCain’s speech there will be about Iraq, according to an aide.

With less fundraising time scheduled during his biographical tour, McCain will use this week in the capital to raise cash. He has a high-dollar event lined up at Washington’s Willard Hotel on the night of Petraeus’s appearance before the Senate.

McCain will use the second week in April, when taxes come due, to focus on an economic message. He’ll utilize April 15 to tout his tax cut proposals and to contrast his plan with what he says are the Democrats’ plans to raise taxes.

The third week in April will bring what could be called McCain's "different kind of Republican" tour, where he intends to visit places that don’t often get much attention from candidates, especially from his own party.

“There are parts of the country, from inner cities to rural areas that have been forgotten, left behind,” says Schmidt. “Sen. McCain will travel to these places, visit with the people, talk to them about new ideas to change the economic realities of these areas.”

McCain aides wouldn’t share the exact locales yet, but he’s likely to stop in areas with heavy African-American and Latino populations. . . Read all of this article here