Dear Friend,

I want to pose a question to you: “Are America’s best days now behind us or ahead of us?”

I strongly believe we can and must do better to ensure that our Nation’s best days still lay ahead. But there are some who powerfully argue that we are in the twilight of America’s years.

They say that President Obama and his allies’ massive big government expansion is so damaging and irreversible that it has forever stifled the ingenuity, energy and free enterprise spirit that built this great nation.

They proclaim that because President Obama’s tripling of the deficit to $1.6 trillion and the course he has charted to double the national debt, we must now recalibrate our hopes for our nation and our children.

They point to the government healthcare takeover, the failed economic
stimulus program, and the astounding expansion of government and say that because
we spent so lavishly on ourselves and saddled our children with crushing debts that
we have sentenced them to a lower standard of living. They sadly say that ours will
be the first generation of Americans that does not hope for a better life for our
children and our grandchildren.

Ominously, they also show the figures that demonstrate that despite President
Obama’s decision to OK the mission to eliminate Osama bin Laden, the President has
so slashed defense spending and weakened our defenses that we will fall behind the
Chinese and Russians and see our power and influence in the world forever eclipsed
while the dangers around us grow.

Has Ronald Reagan’s “shining city on the hill” gone dark? Are we rapidly
losing our place as the freest, most generous, most productive nation on Earth that
has stood for freedom and lifted the fate not only of its own people but of billions of
others around the globe?

While it is clear that America is in dire straits, I strongly reject the idea that
America’s best days are behind us.

In the coming election, if we can capture not only the White House but also
take control of Congress, we can turn our nation’s course and leave a better America
to our children and grandchildren. However, such a victory will be a huge challenge.
At the close of President Jimmy Carter’s presidency when there was doubledigit
inflation and interest rates and our defenses had seriously deteriorated, there
were similar questions about whether America could ever look forward again to
greatness.

We very well could have entered a long period of further serious decline if it
were not for the election of Ronald Reagan with the Republican takeover of the Senate
and critical gains in the House.

If we are to rescue America we must elect men and women to both houses of
Congress who understand that peace comes through American strength but who are
also individuals of integrity and courage.

We need men and women who will serve this country in Congress who can
stand the withering attacks of the far left special interests and have the courage of
their convictions to do what is right for America.

We cannot and must not have men and women who promise to set America on
a course to restore our economic and national security but who are co-opted and
compromised once they come to Washington.

I know of a unique breed of Americans who have demonstrated they have the
integrity, courage and convictions to help restore America’s greatness and who have
demonstrated they can withstand more than the attacks they will encounter as a
member of the House or Senate.

They are America’s Combat Veterans. These brave men and women who have
fought on the frontlines for America are just the people we need in office.
Increasingly we are seeing a growing number of fiscally conservative Combat
Veterans seeking election to Congress and I believe that America needs these battletested
individuals in Congress.

It is going to take enormous courage to turn America away from the failed
course it is now on and we urgently need these special individuals who will help
wage this historic battle for us. That is why, I want to ask you to join me in
supporting the Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action Committee.
(www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org)

More than just electing men and women who promise to stand strong for
America, this is the one political action committee that only supports individuals who
have already proven their commitment to this country under the most difficult
conditions.

The Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action Committee (CVFC) is
headed by Retired Navy Captain Joe John who served in Vietnam, Desert Storm and 9
Counter Terrorist Operations and was a Counter Terrorist Intelligence Analyst with
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He and his Board of Directors, which
includes Lt. Col. Orson Swindle, USMC (Ret.), a friend of mine whom I met while a
POW in Vietnam, do not receive a dollar in compensation and do this solely for the
sake of our nation.

Started in August 2009, the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC made a
significant impact in the 2010 mid-term election. Twenty-seven of the endorsed
Combat Veterans For Congress won their primary races and they are listed on the
CVFC website.

Included in the 87 new freshmen members of Congress who were sworn into
office earlier this year, 12 were among the 27 battle hardened candidates that CVFC
supported during the 2010 primaries. I expect these 12, who have demonstrated their
love of this country and are committed fiscal conservatives, to be leaders in the fight
to restore fiscal sanity to our nation and repair our defenses.

If you, like me, are outraged that at a time when 43 cents of every dollar the
federal government spends is borrowed, the government is rapidly expanding and
increasingly intruding on our lives and freedoms and our nation’s defense are being
exhausted and not adequately replenished, I urge you to join me in supporting
Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action Committee.

Often when you give your hard earned dollars to a political action committee,
you do not know very much about the candidates who will ultimately benefit from
your support.

This is not the case with the Combat Veterans For Congress Political Action
Committee. You can be sure that every dollar you donate will go to individuals who,
as the CVFC motto says, have “Embedded Integrity.” When CVFC candidates say
they are fiscal conservatives that will work to return us to a nation of limited
government they mean it. They also will be individuals with the courage to stand up
to the bullying of the liberals and the smear tactics of their allies. They possess
extraordinary patriotism that will guide each of their decisions.

If you agree that at this most critical moment in our nation’s history when our
nation’s finances have been grossly mismanaged, our freedoms infringed and our
defenses made vulnerable, we need a new breed of extraordinarily patriotic men and
women serving in Congress, I urge you to make the most generous contribution
possible.

I believe that with quality men and women CVFC is helping to elect, we will
not only redirect this nation but we will definitively answer that America’s best days
are not behind us but truly lay before us.

Your dollars will enable these Combat Veteran For Congress to purchase the
television and radio advertisements they need to win. Your dollars will also help
them to organize voters in their districts and states and counter the massive voter turn
out efforts by the far left special interests in this nation.

Again, this is the one political contribution you can make that you can be
absolutely sure will support fiscal conservatives with the convictions and courage to limit
government and rebuild our nation’s defense. If we are going to elect these Combat
Veterans, CVFC needs your support today. Time is short. Please answer right away.

Sincerely,

John McCain
United States Senator

P.S. I believe the 2012 election will decide the fate of this nation for a long time to come.
This nation is terribly off on the wrong track. If we are going to put us back on a path to
prosperity and security, we are going to need to return to our Founding Father’s uniquely
American vision of fiscal responsibility and limited government. To do that we need men
and women who have fought for the flag of this nation. That is why I am going to say to
you that the most important lapel pin you can wear in this election is not a campaign
button but the American flag. If you will join in supporting CVFC today, Captain Joe
John will send you a special American flag lapel pin that I hope you will wear with
enormous pride since you will know that you are helping to insure that America’s best
days are indeed before us.

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ACTION COMMITTEE. CONTRIBUTIONS ARE NOT DEDUCTIBLE AS
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS.

This letter is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. Contributions
by corporations and foreign nationals are prohibited. Contributions by individuals are
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