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VANITY: A Conservative Nightmare in 2012: will McCain run again?
FR | 2010-03-14 | rabscuttle385

Posted on 03/13/2010 6:02:46 PM PST by rabscuttle385

The RINO McCain is in New Hampshire now campaigning for Kelly Ayotte, who is running for Senator from that state.

According to the Nashua Telegraph, he's also co-hosting a town hall with Ms. Ayotte.

The Boston Globe notes that the town hall meeting was

"reminiscent of those he held during his two presidential campaigns."

Fox News also reports that

McCain did over 100 townhall meetings leading up to the crucial "First in the Nation" New Hampshire Presidential Primary and won, once again becoming the GOP frontrunner.

So, my question for my fellow FReepers is, McCain's 2010 re-election race with J.D. aside, what happens if McCain wins in 2010 and then makes a power play to take the 2012 GOP nomination against Obama? What will you do? Whom will you support?

Even worse: what if McCain triangulates and runs alongside Romney?


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To: rabscuttle385

Only if he learns how to use the internet by then.

Just kidding, I wouldn’t vote for him for dog-catcher.


41 posted on 03/13/2010 6:40:38 PM PST by TSgt (RE-ELECT NOBODY - VOTE THEM ALL OUT!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Ridiculous.


42 posted on 03/13/2010 6:40:41 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: Paperdoll
Well I hope the tea partiers will bring the Republican party back to the right where they belong and give the middle finger to anyone who wants to appease the left.
43 posted on 03/13/2010 6:40:51 PM PST by hstacey (An ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

better question: what conservative is going to defeat mittster in newHampshire?

Don’t assume Sarah will make an effort there.


44 posted on 03/13/2010 6:42:48 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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To: rabscuttle385

I will not vote for McCain or Romney. Period.

I don’t care who the Democrats run. I don’t care how dire the situation is in 2012. I simply will not compromise my values to vote for Democrat Lite ever again.

I refuse to vote for anyone who thinks that our most basic rights are negotiable or thinks that our sovereignty and national security are up for grabs to the highest bigger.

So many of rabid McCain voters tried to make the rest of us feel guilty for refusing to support his train wreck of a candidacy.

They said that if only we’d vote for him, they’d work tirelessly after the election and they’d make it known to all that McCain was the last privileged, lying, elitist, out of touch screwball any of us would ever have to vote for again.

So, to anyone who who wheedled, begged, pleaded with or tried to coerce the rest of us into swallow our decency and voting for that liberal loser....

Y’all better get to work mucking out the barn. That giant pile of RINO poop you promised to get rid of is getting dangerously high & deeper by the day.


45 posted on 03/13/2010 6:43:45 PM PST by mountainbunny (Mitt Romney is the answer to the question no one asked.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Of course McCain will seriously consider running again - he hasn’t the wit to retire to “senior statesman” status like Bob Dole did in 1996, after losing to a clearly inferior opponent.

A rematch in 2012 between McCain and Obama in 2012 serves nobody.

If anything, McCain SHOULD have resigned his seat in the US Senate in 2008, and run full-time for the office of President. So should have Obama, too, but we aren’t going to get any do-overs now.


46 posted on 03/13/2010 6:45:01 PM PST by alloysteel (....the Kennedys can be regarded as dysfunctional. Even in death.)
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To: rabscuttle385

How is this a conservative nightmare?

McCain isn’t a conservative. And everyone knows it.

We will have his sorry butt kicked to the curb early in the primaries.


47 posted on 03/13/2010 6:47:24 PM PST by airborne ("Peace, Love, Dope" has now become "Hope, Change, Obama" !!!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Let him try; but, let’s face it, McCain is not going to go down easily, he thinks too highly of himself; and, he wants to gum things up for the more conservative candidates in the GOP.

Go J.D., beat the hell out of McS—thead!


48 posted on 03/13/2010 6:54:02 PM PST by izzatzo
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto

You probably will see little if any polling data.

McCain is down by 15 points easy.

Say goodnight John.


49 posted on 03/13/2010 6:54:47 PM PST by bigoil
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To: OneWingedShark
Honestly, I’d rather vote for Obama

rat...It's the new conservatism.

50 posted on 03/13/2010 7:00:00 PM PST by Once-Ler (ProLife ProGun ProGod ProSoldier ProBusiness Republican To The Core)
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To: OneWingedShark
You've made a good point. I think it's more important to roll the vast majority of our current Congress and Senate out on their heads and replace them with "real" Conservatives. After that, it won't matter much whether Obama stays or goes.

McCain and his plus sized valley girl are a laughing stock and don't realize it. He isn't going to get any traction. He's a non-starter. :-)
51 posted on 03/13/2010 7:03:38 PM PST by hiredhand (Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
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To: OneWingedShark
My reasoning is this: Obama is poised on being a lame-duck president

In a little over a year he has destroyed the economy, singlehandedly lost the WOT (fulfilled his function as a decapitation strike on the US) and brought America to her knees. I'd call him many things, but lame-duck isn't one of them.

That term might be used for the American people giving him the keys to the nation.

52 posted on 03/13/2010 7:04:06 PM PST by Hardraade
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To: campaignPete R-CT

NH and IA have proven themselves pretty irrelevent in the early selection process. The whole primary process needs to be overhauled, period, and it should stop being so absurdly early.


53 posted on 03/13/2010 7:05:08 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Once-Ler

Did you even read my reasoning?

Let me put it this way: I *KNOW* Obama won’t agree or listen to me; I don’t want the illusion that my leader will listen to me, which is what we’d get with Romney/McCain, I’ve had too much of the “*nod, nod* ‘I’m listening to you; and I agree.’ only to have the “leader” do exactly the opposite.”


54 posted on 03/13/2010 7:07:55 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I wouldn’t say I expect Juan to run again, but I would not be at all surprised if he heard his country’s call once more.


55 posted on 03/13/2010 7:10:25 PM PST by Will88
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To: rabscuttle385

Why stop there? While you are making silly vanity posts, why not start posts on “What will happen if Bob Dole runs again!?!?!?” and “What will happen if Bush 1 runs again!?!?!?”


56 posted on 03/13/2010 7:10:37 PM PST by GLDNGUN
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To: Diogenesis


"And then I sank my eagle talon into his shoulder and said, 'Raise your seat, punk!'"
57 posted on 03/13/2010 7:10:59 PM PST by Rastus
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To: rabscuttle385

McWHO???


58 posted on 03/13/2010 7:11:14 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

after IA and NH, it was pretty much whittled down to McCain and Romney and McCain succeeded in stopping Romney in NH. If Romney had a solid win in NH, he would have been the nominee.

If there is a grassroots conservative candidate in ‘12 (Palin or somebody), he/she almost has to win IA and NH to get momentum to go the distance.


59 posted on 03/13/2010 7:13:02 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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To: Perdogg

I’d vote for you over McCain!


60 posted on 03/13/2010 7:13:20 PM PST by lonestar (Better Obama picks his nose than our pockets!)
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