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.
Thats the straight truth right there.......
The media owns John McCain. They created him and they own him. President John McCain would call the MSM to ask for permission to go potty.
Doesn't matter. Both parties are the same. One lies better and doesn't run from a fight.
Again, the Republican kingmakers are going to push McCain down our throats. And while I helped campaign for George Bush in the last two elections, I won't do a single thing for John McCain. Not the least of which I wouldn't vote for McCain if the GOP put a Hillary Clinton to my head.
I don't think McCain will make it. There's still two and a half years to the nomination and it would not be a huge shock if his cancer reappeared.
If you want to define the path of the Republican party based on what the stupid Democrats may or may not do, you have already conceded defeat.
McCain has no chance at all really, but go ahead believing the leftist sycophants in the media, they really know and want what is best for Republicans... NOT!
Actually, I have respect for Dole. Can't say that for McLame.
Reagan was in far better health...and younger, than John McCain.
Mccain has every chance (and likely the best chance) of keeping another Clinton out of the White House, however.
Well that makes one of us. I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils. If somehow the conservative wing of the Republican party begins losing big I can only hope that the people of this country will recognize soon after their folly and return it to power. If it takes Hillary to wake up the American public then so be it, I however don't think she can even win the Dem primary. And having said that I think all it will take is one respectable candidate in the Republican primary and McCain is toast.
No!
George would be just fine with me and so would Jeb Bush. In fact, George and Jeb, or Jeb and George would be fine with me, both men of physical stature. We need real men like this to tower over the short, fat old hag if the Demorats run her.
Allen hasn't even really started campaigning yet. He is giving one of the main speeches at CPAC this weekend (I believe he is speaking right after Cheney), this may give a good indication of where things are going.
I hope it is George Allen. It is freightening that Bush people would sign up with someone so closely tied to George Soros.
There is absolutely NO WAY the country will go for Jeb Bush being on the ticket in 2008.
This just talk.
There was no way the nation would give Clinton a second term either.
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