McCain For Defense Secretary?

Weekly Standard via CBS News ^ | April 30, 2006 | Ari Richter

[lfod1776]

Obviously McCain is runnning for POTUS and doesn't want to be defense secretary. Perhaps if some other Republican is elected in 2008, he might then consider it.

The journalists who write illogical nonsense like this story must be utterly desperate for something to write.

[Buckeye McFrog]

"McCain? Defense? Are you kidding me, who writes this BS."


CBS News in the Byline....nuff said!

[itsahoot]

Surely, the Administration is not that out of touch

No? Just look on the news and watch the mobs in the streets. Any bets on what the reaction will be from the White House.

Here is my guess
Family values don't stop at the border.
We must let willing workers work for willing employers
We can't deport 11 million people.
Yada, Yada

My wife who teaches school said they had a 25% absentee count, so they had to reschedule the state mandated testing.

[geopyg]

Another thread to try out my new tagline.

[proudpapa]

Well, I suppose he'd be better than war hero John Kerry.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I doubt if McCain would accept it in any event. I say keep Rumsfeld because he supports the President's policies. McCain does not.

[DustyMoment]

He would boost the morale of the men and women in uniform. And he would have bipartisan backing (ranging from his good pals John Kerry and Joe Lieberman to his would-be White House rivals Bill Frist and George Allen). This not-a-mystery man is, of course, John McCain.

I support this idea!!! Let's make McVain the Secretary of Defense . . . . . in Iran . . . . or Russia . . . . . . or France . . . . . anyplace but here!!!!

[roaddog727]

No.

NO No.

NO NO NO.

NO NO NO NO.

NO NO NO NO NO.

oh yes, NFW!

one more - HELL NO!

[voreddy]

That's a moronic statement. Whatever you think of McCain he was shot down in enemy terrority. And by allowing your hatred of the man to blind you, you have insulted all POWs in American history. Tell the men who were Pows under the Nazis or Imperial Japan they were not heroes.

[AlexandriaDuke]

No one can match McCain's eloquence when it comes to talking about being a part of a cause larger than oneself. That's the message Americans need to hear — and believe — ...

Get it? The government is more important to you than yourself or your family. That's why the "conservatives" at TWS still love McCain.

[baa39]

"No one can match McCain's eloquence when it comes to talking about being a part of a cause larger than oneself. That's the message Americans need to hear..."

The SecDef's job is not to inspire the American people with eloquent messages! It's to strategize defense and fight wars.

These journalists seem to live in a fantasy-land, they do not seem to understand basic concepts. Before any of them can be war commentators, I wish they could be required to do a tour of duty "embedded" with the military.

[TomGuy]

My wife who teaches school said they had a 25% absentee count, so they had to reschedule the state mandated testing.

One FoxNews report in California gave a number of students absent from one school district and 20 teachers were also absent.

Is CA hiring illegals to teach????

[AmericanChef]

-No one can match McCain's eloquence when it comes to talking about being a part of a cause larger than oneself.-

Ha! In his own mind, no one is larger than McLame! He postures and poses and pontificates before the cameras. His ideas are lame, but his personality is overbearing. Deadly combination for the DoD!

[Bigg Red]

So the media will give McCain better PR than Rumsfeld,

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They would give it to him until he actually started the job, and then they would stick it to him just as they stick it to anyone who is associated with the Bush WH.

If the media want Rummy out so badly he must be doing his job even better than I thought.

[pollyannaish]

Great tagline. As if you can have one without the other!

[Joe Boucher]

I wouldn't let John McCain walk my dog.

[itsahoot]

Is CA hiring illegals to teach????

LA Unified probably is.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Why? Hero status doesn't matter anyway. Benedict Arnold was a true combat leader, who probably saved the country at Saratoga. He wasn't a POW, but he lost a leg. Because of his hero status, nobody noticed he had gone off the deep end until it was too late, just to refresh everyone's recollection.

[JasonC]

He leads polls of likely 2008 nominees, that's all. Polls are polls, not terribly reliable. But there is no mystery as to the source of the attention. FR may think McCain is the devil incarnate, but the country as a whole doesn't. His approval is 25 points higher than the president's.

[edcoil]

Here is a hero. McCain is no hero.

"A Camp Pendleton Marine shot seven times in combat in Iraq received the Navy Cross on Monday and was promoted to sergeant major.

Marine First Sergeant Bradley A. Kasel, right, receives the Navy Cross from Maj. Gen. Michael R. Lehnert."