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.
We'll find out.
LOL! If we're lucky...it would be worth it for the entertainment value alone. A Bush/Rice ticket would send the liberals and fringe right into hysterics.
Good. PR and media relations are the administration's giant Achille's Heel. This will hurt, not help the fool McCain.
What do you mean "they?" Don't you vote in the primaries?
Hillary will destroy this country.
Re your post #105 to me re Gov Jeb Bush -- That was a very nice post, kylaka. Thanks. :)
Everyone knows conservatives don't like McCain. It is always mentioned. btw Frist sounded a lot better in NH this weekend.
PS I think it was the Cato Institute that said Gov Jeb Bush is the "real conservative" of his family because he cuts taxes more than anyone! They gave him an "A" grade for his fiscal management as governor, one of only two A's they gave out to all the governors in the USA. :)
aaaaarrrrgggggh, indeed. I cannot stand McCain.
Hitlery or McKeating.
And now Team Bush is on board.
The next few years are going to be unbearable no matter how you slice it up.
There's a sinister plot in here somewhere, I tell ya.
I think the Bush Administration is either setting up a 2006 election format to instill in Republicans a desire to make sure "conservatives" are elected to "check" the President's liberal spending (have you seen the Prez's budget)- for gawd's sake he is out of his mind- he will KILL off R's in swing House districts and Senate races... as sure as the sun shines...
Or either Karl Rove, and I have dealt with Karl personally... Karl has lost his frickin' mind.
The disconnect between the budget and the upcoming election is - well - I just can not fathom the rationale or the political direction of this Admin anymore.
You do not, in an election year, ask your vulnerable moderates up for reelection to throw themselves on their sword.
Anyway... for what its worth... if this is what Karl has "up his sleeve", he must be relying on redistricting to pull the big guy through. That does not, however, explain how he is going to handle the Senate.
Perhaps, Karl has already determined that the Senate is lost.
Watch for attenuates from the Admin on the right to life, and strict constructionist judges in the coming months- judicial crapola from the lib judges and so forth- that's the only reason he needs the Senate anymore. If you hear that- you will know that they still believe the Senate is in play.
But... I have the feeling that this WH is in disarray and that they are lost politically.
There is only so much one can do to keep up the faithful tempo when war is waning.
Either they are going to lob bombs at Iran (and that IS what is going to happen- therefore- the budget doesn't matter), or they have determined that our our good Lord has made way already for Iran to sink a tanker or two off Hormuz and beg the inevitable- a 3rd front caught in the middle of two enclaves of our boyz.
To this thread:----> Peggy, my dear, has been spending too much time waltzing with the libs of NY and is beginning to acquire their penchant for opacity.
The SOU speech was ok- nobody's gonna remember it. I mean really, What SOU do you actually remember from Bush I, or Clinkhead? Hell I don't even remember Reagan's except that he started that tradition of pointing people out in the gallery and announcing grand initiatives.
As gump says: "that's all I got to say about that."
"They'll fix McCain alright, and his campaign will leak like a sieve. He will get no traction. (It's like the Clintons depositing Dean at the DNC... set him up to fail, have a plan B that makes you look really smart)"
Exactly. McCain is known for being "unpredictable", and he's getting up in years. You can bet your last dollar that his off-the-cuff "straight talk" in 2008 will trigger a whisper campaign about his "mental capacity."
Hillary has the MSM to air that sort of propaganda every night in 2008.
Also, if McCain's allegedly such a great candidate, how did he get trounced in 2000? If he couldn't handle the Bush campaign in South Carolina, is he really going to stand up against the Clintons in 2008?
"He will be able to do more damage than Hillary who is the opposition of a powerful Republican machine. McCain will be like Nixon only much angrier and crazier..."
With friends like McCain, who needs enemies? You are right... he could do a lot more damage with a Republican Congress than Hillary. The same sort of damage that Arlen Specter is doing on the Judiciary Committee.
There is a big difference......think SCOTUS we will be picking at least two or three in the near future and I think I would rather have McCain's choice
True, but I'm so pissed that there are only a handfull of Conservatives left in the Republican party, I'm just not going to reward them any more (our senator from SC. can forget about my vote, especially after his conduct at the NSA hearings today, and previous moderate stances). I'm disgusted with both parties, and all politicians; we're not the country our forefathers and constitution envisioned; the experiment has failed.
Thanks for the info. I didn't know that
You left out the BARF ALERT!
McPain = BARF!
Really? And how is that?
I don't want the Clintons back in there again, no thanks!!
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