Posted on 10/30/2004 5:39:06 PM PDT by PolishProud
In the Friday's edition of the Arizona Republic Chip Scutari opines that John McCain is the GOP front runner for 2008. He claims that McCain is the most "influential politician not living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave." He's a national statesman with star power to match Hillary Clinton. He has hosted Saturday Night Live, appeared on Letterman and Leno and is a constant fixture on the Sunday talk shows.
Scutari goes on to write that If Kerry wins, McCain will run in 08. He can garner crossover vote from moderates and independents and will appeal to "pragmatic conservatives."
McCain thinks there should be more women in office and complains that there are no Hispanics in the Senate. Scutari writes that McCain is a regular guy that has a lot of charisma and claims that McCain has mended his fences with the White House as evidences by his recent stay at Bush's Texas ranch, the only second member of congress to get that honor.
My question to Scutari is, what have you been smoking? McCain has so alienated the Republican base that he could not get elected to national dog catcher. If I was Bush I'd use McCain too.
There are a lot voters out there, moderate and independents, that think because McCain is loved by the press, Larry King and late night show hosts that he would make a good president. But without the Republican base McCain doesn't have a chance.
I will never forget McCain's recent appearance with Senators Lugar and Hagel on a Sunday morning talk show in which he criticized President Bush. President Reagan once said "don't speak ill of a fellow Republican." And McCain did so in the middle of Bush's reelection campaign.
This conservative will stay home if its Clinton Vs McCain in 2008.
The question in which party will the Charles Keating Senator be the Presidential candidate?
Oops, forgot CFR. McCain has done so many things to frost my shorts that I can't remember them all. The man is a skunk.
Well, there you go again. :-)
Not a CHANCE. His support was L-square.
The "Keywords" for this thread say it all...
It will be the first time I ever vote Libertarian.......
Bill Owens/Jeb Bush
No way on earth for McCain!!
I won't vote for him.
He would never win as a Democrat either. They only like him for his backstabbing skills. They don't REALLY like him.
McCain for President?
Never.
I'm not excited. But he's better than any Democrat, unless Zell can pump things up.
Saints preserve us! No- please no!
I seriously don't think the man is balanced. Honestly, I think his time as a POW affected him permanently.
I don't know WHO we'll have in '08, but McCain is NOT what I want for a candidate.
....which would turn on him in a second if he won the Republican nomination. He would not have won the Presidency in 2000 and all the dirty laundry in his past would have been out there. He is better off having lost.
I respect his courage in facing the years in NV prison, but I do not like him at all.
McCain wouldn't be able to take AZ in the primaries. The RINO is lucky if he gets polite applause at rallys.
Hugh Hewitt brought this topic to us at a recent rally of about 600 in AZ. His opinion was that Owens was good but probably wouldln't want the job. Rudy would not pass with the "evangelical right." He mentioned McCain as a "frontrunner," the room went silent, he seemed a little surprised and moved on. He had two picks...if I could only remember who they were.
I agree. I don't think McCain or Hagel will make it out of Iowa.
I think regardless of who wins (which I think will be Bush - I think he's ahead by 3 to 5 points) Giuliani will have to be very clever to win the nomination. I think he'll have more difficulty winning the nomination than he would winning the election.
The biggest flaw I can think of is that he is pro-abortion and pro-homosexual marriage. Ain't gonna happen.
John McCain, bless his soul, is going to kill himself one day.
He'll trip running to make it in front of a camera and break his neck.
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