Posted on 12/14/2006 7:54:50 AM PST by shrinkermd
Some 30 invited corporate representatives and other lobbyists gathered at the Phoenix Park Hotel on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning to hear two senior mainstream Republican senators pitch the 2008 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain. They were selling him to establishment Republicans as the establishment's candidate. Nothing could be further from McCain's guerrilla-style presidential run in 2000, which nearly stopped George W. Bush.
Invitations to Tuesday's event were sent by Trent Lott, the newly elected Senate minority whip. Over coffee, Lott and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) pushed McCain, though neither previously was seen as a McCainiac. They were not for McCain in 2000, and neither were the assembled party activists.
It is beginning to look like "McCain Inc." -- that is, party regulars, corporate officials and Washington lawyers and lobbyists moving toward John McCain, the man they feared and loathed eight years ago. The GOP, abhorring competition and detesting surprises, likes to establish its presidential nominee well in advance.
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The media only wants McCain as a candidate so they can beat him up with "mental instability and mellanoma", said Hugh Hewitt.
I agree .. and I'm already fed up with having this idiot constantly shoved down my throat.
The media only wants McCain as a candidate so they can beat him up with "mental instability and mellanoma"....
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Well, they want him because he is NOT a conservative. And they know he CAN beat Hitlery...God help us.
Everyone loves McCain, except bloggers and talk radio. Probably because bloggers and talk radio love the first ammendment.
He'll probably be the nominee and he'll also be the last "Old Media" nominee. Republicans are behind the curve.
What does the Inc. stand for?....... Incompetent?
I second that. No way will I vote for that idiot, no matter what the consequences are.
If it comes down to a choice between McCain and Hillary or Obama, I will vote for McCain.
It is sad that it has come to this, and McCain is partly to blame for the current dismal state of the GOP, but an election is a choice between the lesser of two evils.
It can't be emphasized enough: an election is a choice between the lesser of two evils.
An election is always a choice between the lesser of two evils.
Yes, I think I am in the same spot. If it is a choice between a RAT and McCain, I will not only vote but support McCain.
Or you can just stay home and enjoy life, ignore all the election charades.
The GOP will be handing the Presidency to her heinous, Hitlery on a silver platter, if they offer up McCain as their 2008 candidate.
If it is McCain, then I will vote write in my preferred primary candidate anyway.
I will not vote for McCain in the primaries or the general.
Just another appeasement weasel.
Either way one gets evil.
The lesser of two evils is still an evil. We must press upon our party to give us candidates for whom we would be proud to vote for (like Reagan) instead of candidates we hold our noses over while voting for them.
We Americans must finish the job of destroying America, and elect a Rudy or McLame. It's the wrong thing to do, but who cares?
You're right. As long as we get a GOP president, it doesn't matter what the result will be.
By not voting, you are electing the Democrat candidate.
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