Posted on 06/21/2004 10:43:47 AM PDT by John Lenin
June 21, 2004--The conventional wisdom is that Senator McCain is off-limits to criticism. He is the quintessential hero--a decorated ex-prisoner of war in the Vietnam conflict. For awhile, the Kerry campaign flirted with the illusion that he could be added to the Democratic ticket as Kerry's running mate, making it a virtually unbeatable combination. To be sure, instant polls had a Kerry-McCain ticker winning in November in a landslide.
On June 19, before adoring troops at Fort Lewis, Washington, Bush received a full-bore endorsement from McCain, and, more importantly, a ratification of Bush's strategy in Iraq, including the obligatory "stay the course" rhetoric. The A.P. wire service reported this event, indicating that McCain's blandishments to Bush went far beyond the bounds of the merely perfunctory, and used language about the threats posed by terrorists and, before the war, by Saddam Hussein, "in words matching the starkest language Bush and Vice President Cheney have employed."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimorechronicle.com ...
Tyldesley believes that the media is supporting Bush. I think that pretty much shoots his credibility.
I went over to DU a few minutes ago, because I wanted a shadenfraude moment, reveling in the angst over the Nader/Camejo ticket. But they are collectively pretending that there was no such announcement today.
What they are talking about is how The New York Times is part of the dastardly Karl Rove political machine, because they had a story about Kerry going boating that implied that he and his wife are quite wealthy.
Just vote for Kerry and get it over with.
I see you've been raiding Cindy McCain's medicine cabinet again.
ACU Ratings for Senator Mccain: | |
Year 2003 | 75 |
Year 2002 | 78 |
Lifetime | 84 |
McCain isn't Presidential or Vice-Presidential material....for either party. He's not mentally stable.
They had to ask?
At least he won't be out there working for Kerry.
This article is nothing more than an assault on McCain from the hard environmental left.
Gee ... a Greenie denouncing a Republican? Next your going to tell me the sun has a tendency to rise in the East...
We'll see. He'll do anything for attention.
I guess the same could have been said asked when Reagan picked Bush as his running mate. "Why...would Republicans want a ticket that becomes MORE liberal?" It's all about winning and putting the best ticket out there to attract the votes of the 10% independent, undecided, moderate voter who decides every election. If the Republicans could depend on a 60-70% turnout of their rank and file there would be no need for these silly games.
Everytime we pick a liberal candidate, we take a step backwards. This country has moved more to the left in the past 10 years than any other time. And when a Republican or conservative gets elected, they have to correct the mess. For every two steps made by liberalism, there's only one step back, which means getting more and more liberal is inevitable...
UNLESS we stop it now.
Instead of picking a media darling, why not pick someone more conservative? If you want to jump on the 'let the media pick the candidate' bandwagon, go for it. I've been taken on that ride before, and have no intention to go on it again.
Never please! Or say goodbye to your base.
If he runs with Kerry and Kerry loses, he's toast because losing VP candidates are nothing in the twisted world of Democrat politics -- even losing Democrat presidential candidates rarely get a second shot at the top spot.
If he runs with Kerry and Kerry wins, he will just be another Vice President.
McCain's best hope is to support Bush for President. Regardless of whether a Bush-Cheney ticket wins or loses, supporting Bush is in McCain's best interest for 2008.
If Bush dumps Cheney (which I don't think is a high probability, though I do think it is more probably that Cheney will withdraw his name.), McCain is one of the logical replacements. Only Rudy Guiliani, Colin Powell, and Condi Rice would seem to be contenders. So let's examine the two possibilities of a Bush-McCain versus Kerry-Gonzo ticket.
If Bush-McCain wins, McCain will almost be guaranteed being at the head of the 2008 ticket with Guiliani or Powell or Rice.
If Bush-McCain loses, McCain will still be in the hunt for the top spot on the ticket in 2008.
The bottom line is that being with Bush has a future, but being with Kerry has no future for McCain.
{I would posit that you can drop the words "for McCain" from the last sentence and it becomes a truism for all Americans who are not recipients of government largess.
I appreciate the genralization but I've never spoken well of McLame.
Anyone else doing so simply has an agenda that is neither Conservative nor Constitutional...maybe Loserdopians & Liberals....now they might like him.
Haha...
I DON'T!!!!!
Hillary would love the news! McCain out of the senate, not stealing the senate spotlight, and we can assume he would not run for president in 2008 as her rival, because of his cancer history, senate corruption history, and age.
Of course we know John McCain isn't about to give up his carefully cultivated position as super-star senator, bold renegade, nor climb down from his spotlighted senate pedestal, erected by an adoring press corps. The vice presidency for John McCain would be his personal hell, 4 years in another kind of prison, it's just not gonna happen.
(Keeping control of the senate is important too. Bush couldn't afford to take an (R) Vote out.)
But a fun read!
McCain removed himself from the "darling of the GOP" category. And.....the last time that people like you turned on a Bush, we ended up with the Clintons for 8+ years. Thanks for nothing. It looks like you will stay home, vote Third Party, or vote Democrat in November. Which will it be?
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