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McCain Starts Planning for 2008 Run
AOL NEWS ^ | NOVEMBER 10, 2006 | LIZ SIDOTI

Posted on 11/10/2006 10:19:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. John McCain, considered the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, intends to launch an exploratory committee next week, party officials said Friday.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting a public statement from the four-term Arizona senator.

McCain, the Republican maverick who unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination in 2000, already has opened a bank account for the committee, officials said.

"The senator has made no decision about running for president," said Eileen McMenamin, a McCain spokeswoman.

Aides to McCain say the senator will discuss a presidential bid with his family over the end-of-the-year Christmas holiday.

McCain, 70, is a former U.S. Navy pilot who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He was elected to the Senate in 1986, and served in the House of Representatives for four years before that.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: captainqueeg; election2008; hillaryclinton; johnmccain; keating5; mccain; presidency; rino; stopmccain08; whitehouse
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To: redgirlinabluestate

The core conservative base (the people who actually vote in pubby primaries) will never vote for McCain. There is no point in offering the number two spot to because McCain can't deliver any specific demographic in any appreciable numbers to bother with.

Romney's spineless and will be a "lousy push-over, give the dems what they want and let's make nice" president. The dems will ride him hard and put him away wet. Not what I want in a president. No Thank You.


101 posted on 11/11/2006 1:18:58 AM PST by Valpal1 (Big Media is like Barney Fife with a gun.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Welcome to FR.

I will not vote for McCain or the party that runs him. I would prefer a conservative with conservative principles. We better decide what these are.

The uninfringed Second Amendment is a fine, for me, litmus test. Have you ever heard anyone advocate the uninfringed Second Amendment AND a moderate position on anything else?

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns.


102 posted on 11/11/2006 1:23:09 AM PST by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Welcome to FR.

I will not vote for McCain or the party that runs him. I would prefer a conservative with conservative principles. We better decide what these are.

The uninfringed Second Amendment is a fine, for me, litmus test. Have you ever heard anyone advocate the uninfringed Second Amendment AND a moderate position on anything else?

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns.


103 posted on 11/11/2006 1:23:13 AM PST by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: Valpal1

Well I was trying to play nice with redgirlinabluestate but if that's the way you feel about Romney how about...

Sanford/Santorum '08


104 posted on 11/11/2006 1:23:27 AM PST by kuma (Mark Sanford '08 http://www.petitiononline.com/msan2008/petition.html)
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To: kuma

I don't know anything about Sanford so I've gotten an open mind and am willing to learn more.

I like Santorum, but the press wants to burn him in effigy so he might be a bit of a lightning rod that way. But the MSM is going to go after any candidate with an R after his name, so if he's game, I am too.


105 posted on 11/11/2006 1:38:11 AM PST by Valpal1 (Big Media is like Barney Fife with a gun.)
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To: BonnieJ
I will vote for whoever the Republican nominee is.

No wat I would vote for McCain in the Republican Presidential Primary.

If the Manchurian Candidate where running against the Hildabeast, I MIGHT hold my nose and vote for him, but don't bet the ranch on that..

106 posted on 11/11/2006 1:45:16 AM PST by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think our good FRiends in SC will knock him down again in the primary. But he has the guv and senator cabana boy in his pocket.


107 posted on 11/11/2006 1:48:20 AM PST by rrrod
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To: TYVets
No wat I would vote for McCain in the Republican Presidential Primary.

Translation:

NO WAY I would vote for McCain in the Republican Presidential Primary.

108 posted on 11/11/2006 1:49:10 AM PST by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Panama already rejected him, why do you think he's running here?


109 posted on 11/11/2006 1:53:55 AM PST by Roy Tucker ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality"--Ayn Rand)
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To: Valpal1
Romney's spineless and will be a "lousy push-over, give the dems what they want and let's make nice" president.

And on what basis do you make this wild assumption? Do you live in Massachusetts? Have you been to any of his speeches? How much do you really know about him?

He makes quite an impression in person. I wouldn't count him out just yet. I don't see anyone else with much more testicular fortitude around that is electable.

I wholeheartedly agree, we don't need any wimps for president.

110 posted on 11/11/2006 1:54:46 AM PST by redgirlinabluestate (Romney/Hunter 08?)
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To: Jim Robinson

a a a a a a a !


111 posted on 11/11/2006 1:57:45 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I'm 29 and there is no way McCain will get my vote in the primary. I held my nose voting for Dole, proudly voted twice for President Bush, but McCain ain't happenin' for me.


112 posted on 11/11/2006 2:03:14 AM PST by GOPyouth (De Oppresso Liber! The Tyrant is captured!)
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To: Valpal1

Here's some information that I've been gathering.

Governor Mark Sanford (SC)

Current Office: Governor
Office Seeking: Governor
First Elected: 11/05/2002
Last Elected: 11/05/2002
Next Election: 2006
Party: Republican

General Information
About the Office

Background Information Additional Information

Gender: Male
Family: Wife: Jenny
4 Children: Marshall, Landon, Bolton, Blake.
Birth date: 05/28/1960
Birthplace: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Home City: Sullivan's Island, SC
Religion: Episcopalian

Education:
MBA, University of Virginia, 1988
BA, Business, Furman University, 1983.

Professional Experience:
2nd Lieutenant, Air Force Reserves, 315th Aero-Medical Evacuation Squadron.
Real Estate Finance and Investment.

Political Experience:
Governor, State of South Carolina, 2002-present
Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1994-2000.

Organizations:
President, Boy Scouts of America, Coastal Council, 2001.



FLYING HIGH

It isn’t only his duties as governor that take Sanford away from home and family. He
also is a captain in the Air Force Reserves and must meet regular commitments that take
him out of state.

He was commissioned in January 2002 as a first lieutenant in the Reserves, a member of a
medical evacuation team based in Charleston. In 2005, he transferred to an Air Force
emergency preparedness agency out of Atlanta. The new unit gives him greater
flexibility on service

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/election2006/15704902.htm

He was part of the Class of '94 but left in 2000 per his campaign promise on term limits.

He's known as a tightwad.

He's known to not be shy about his power to veto pork-laden bills.

He was just re-elected as Gov of SC.

In case you didn't catch onto it he is currently enlisted in the Air Force Reserves.

Here is a petition to Draft Mark Sanford. It was just trolled today by someone so I'm trying to get ahold of the guy who started the petition to see if he can clean it up but have a look see. =)

http://www.petitiononline.com/msan2008/petition.html


113 posted on 11/11/2006 2:09:45 AM PST by kuma (Mark Sanford '08 http://www.petitiononline.com/msan2008/petition.html)
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To: redgirlinabluestate

Like a freakin' lead balloon


114 posted on 11/11/2006 2:28:04 AM PST by packrat35 (guest worker/day worker=SlaveMart)
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To: RussP

"How old was Reagan when he became President?"

I think 68 or 69?


115 posted on 11/11/2006 2:54:47 AM PST by Mila
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To: SeaWolf
Can't trust him. Very little difference between him and a liberal.

If he's nominated, I will, for the first time since I cast my first vote
for Richard Nixon, stay home.

116 posted on 11/11/2006 3:08:55 AM PST by trickyricky
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He is too old, wobbly on conservative issues, and he can be unstable.
117 posted on 11/11/2006 3:12:37 AM PST by Hydroshock ( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
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To: ma bell

Powell? ya gots ta be kidding?


118 posted on 11/11/2006 3:12:41 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am with you


119 posted on 11/11/2006 3:16:15 AM PST by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Really? I never knew that, does that stop him from running in 2008?


120 posted on 11/11/2006 3:23:32 AM PST by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
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