The chairman of the McCain campaign in New York, Edward Cox, waded carefully into the politics of national security this morning as he warned that the city could face another calamity if voters make the wrong choice this November.
Mr. Cox, a lawyer who considered a run for Senate in 2006, made the case that the coming election would turn on national security, contrary to the conventional wisdom that the economy is likely to dominate the campaign between Senator McCain and Senator Obama.
"This is a serious world situation," Mr. Cox told a New York delegation breakfast here in Minneapolis, before rattling off a list of global crises for which he said Mr. McCain would be much better prepared to handle.
"If we don't select the right person as the next president, we're going to have more tragedies like the one we suffered in New York on 9/11," he said.
Mr. Cox also suggested that a campaign focused on national security could make New York competitive. "Now that we're having the first national security election since 1988, New York will again be in play," he said.
The McCain campaign has sworn off politics at the Republican National Convention in light of Hurricane Gustav, which made landfall on the Gulf Coast today. The political speeches have been cancelled for tonight and replaced by brief appearance by Cindy McCain and Laura Bush, who will introduce a video from four of the gulf state governors. Mr. Cox began his remarks by noting the hurricane and praising Mr. McCain's decision to curtail the convention. While he made little mention of Mr. Obama, his speech offered a clear argument for Mr. McCain.
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