McCain Scolds Rivals’ Buchanan Reaction

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain accused his GOP rivals of “sacrificing our principles” by refusing to condemn Patrick J. Buchanan’s views on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. The candidate who seemed most directly in McCain’s sights was the Republican front-runner, Texas Gov. George W. Bush. “Like Gov. Bush, I want to see a united Republican Party,” McCain said in a statement. “But no political campaign is worth sacrificing our principles.” Bush did not join other Republican and conservative leaders who have attacked Buchanan over his book, “A Republic, Not an Empire.” The book questions the timing of the U.S. entry into World War II because, Buchanan said, Germany was no threat to the U.S. after 1940.