Posted on 02/06/2006 5:56:11 PM PST by wagglebee
With the 2008 presidential election less than three years away, more than a few members of President Bush's campaign team have begun to migrate to the current GOP frontrunner, Sen. John McCain.
According to Newsweek magazine, Mark McKinnon, Bush's longtime media adviser, has told the president he's ready to leap aboard McCain's "Straight Talk Express," unless brother Jeb or Condoleezza Rice change their minds and get into the race.
Among Bush fundraisers, the biggest catch, says Newsweek, is Tom Loeffler, a former congressman from San Antonio, who is a Bush-family loyalist and helped build Bush's money machine in 2000.
Ron Weiser, who was Bush's finance chairman in Michigan in 2000, has also joined McCain.
However, in a bizarre observation considering the Arizona maverick's frontrunner status, McKinnon told Newsweek: "I'd rather lose with McCain than win with somebody else."
Other presidential hopefuls scouting for campaign talent include Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, Virginia Sen. George Allen and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Notably absent from the competition: former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was leading McCain in most GOP presidential preference polls last year - but has done little to advance a presidential bid lately.
Hillary wont win...she may not even get in the race. I hope she does run. Good ol FR will have a field day!
"Hillary..finally a man the Democrats can be proud of"...I stole that from someplace!
McCain reminds me of Bill the Cat
Tell you what Chunga, I live in a state that has 15% of it's populace made up of citizens of another nation and millions more are pouring in. Go sing your blues to someone that doesn't.
"I first met Allen back in 92 when he was running for governor and nobody thought he had a chance against Mary Sue Terry, but he won easily."
Like you, my support for him goes all the way back to 1992...well before the 1993 election. In fact, I was one of the original members of his steering committee. I don't say this lightly...but he's not ready to be the #1 on the ticket.
The reason that I like McCain is simple. He's the only potential candidate who has consistently supported a robust posture with respect to Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and the overall war on terror. By this, I do not mean that he supports the status quo...but rather an expanded force posture.
As to social issues, if we don't win this war on terror the rest of it won't matter so much.
Finally, with regard to your comment that no one thought that Bush could win the nomination in 2000, I don't remember that at all. In fact, I remember that going back as far as 1998 he was regarded as the putative front runner.
On the contrary, I support John McCain because he is the only candidate really talking about the need to kill the terrorists.
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1. get back in bed
2. start getting drunk
3. slit my wrist
I want 3 - 5 candidates for us to all hear from and to hear from us and for us, not the RNC, to choose the candidate to run on the GOP ticket in '08... all indications are that choice is being taken from us and I don't like it.
Unless the RNC takes that choice away from us and runs McCain and only McCain...
I read somewhere that Hillary and Bill share a vial of Viagra.
Ahhhh... A sense of pragmatism, rather than "holier than thou" chest-thumping. How refreshing, and realistic.
Mitt Romney has no chance. None. Think about it. If Evan Bayh (whom I think will be the next President) wins the Dem nomination, he'll refer to Romney as just another Massachussetts liberal... He, Warner, heck even Hillary will try to run to the right of Romney. It'll never work bud IMHO.
I agree 100%
Wow! A real McCain supporter, I thought they only existed in the press. So what are you going to do when McCain destroys the 2nd amendment? How much do you really know about McCain?
Mccain is actually very conservative on most issues (war, abortion , death penatly, sodomy marriage etc)
bookmarked...
What is your take on the illegal alien issue then? Does this make it difficult for Hillary or Obama or Rudy to win the general election?
There’s no difference between McCain and Hillary, except that McCain pretends to be a Republican. In that way, he could be worse. Look how Bush and legislators worked together to spend like Democrats.
If 100 million or so vote for our candidate, that means as many as 20 million will stay home.
Oh well, at least the RNC can sell some of their furniture during their going out of business sale.
We need a new acronym for the RNC like "Really New Castrati".
sarcasm, finally switched to off.....
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