Posted on 01/28/2009 7:18:21 AM PST by rabscuttle385
Republican John McCain intends to run in 2010 for a fifth term in the U.S. Senate, and the recent history of senators thwarted in bids for president suggests he’ll be able to rebound smartly from his loss to Democrat Barack Obama in last November’s White House contest.
John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who narrowly lost in 2004 to President George W. Bush, coasted to an easy victory last year for a fifth Senate term. Even South Dakota Democrat George S. McGovern, fresh off his 1972 landslide defeat at the hands of President Richard M. Nixon, came back to win a third Senate term in 1974, though he lost when he went to that well one more time in 1980.
Obama even gave McCain a big break by taking his strongest potential Arizona Democratic challenger out of the picture. Obama selected Janet Napolitano, a popular governor due to run up against the state’s term-limit law in 2010, as his pick to head the Department of Homeland Security. Until she accepted the Cabinet post, Napolitano appeared likely to run for the Senate in 2010, and early hypothetical polls suggested she would be a strong contender.
No one else appears poised to provide such a threat with Napolitano moved on to Washington. The most recent Democratic Senate nominee was Jim Pederson, a wealthy real estate developer who ran a vigorous campaign in 2006 but nonetheless lost to Republican incumbent Jon Kyl by a substantial 10 percentage-point margin. “I doubt he would take on McCain,” said Bruce Merrill, a pollster and professor emeritus at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Merrill said of McCain, “I really don’t think he’s going to have much difficulty being re-elected.”
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Damaged?! More like throughly rotten, rancid, foul, and pestilence-laden. McCain IS the leading edge of the RINO cancer running amok within the GOP.
Please, please, please let J.D. Hayworth challenge McQueeg in the primary!
Seriously, we need to do everything we can to recruit him to it, and then finance his campaign through individual contributions, since I doubt we can trust the national party to actually support the more conservative candidate (remember Bush and Co. supporting Specter against Toomey?)
“Even so, we should support a conservative opponent; it will help both McCain (who must realize being a maverick is wasting good will and effectiveness) and the opponent, who sets himself up for the next Senate race.”
Agreed that it is good to set up the guy for the next Senate race.
Disagreed that McCain will learn anything. He’s so full of himself that he shits little McCains.
You were saying?
I should have known Bruce Merrill was involved in this. Idiot alert!!!!!!!
McCain is not that well liked here.
Yeah, I was pretty proud of that line.
I liked it so much that it's now on my profile page.
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That choice makes a heck of a lot more sense to me than Hayworth.
McCain will win solely because that Arizona senate seat goes to the highest bidder. George Soros would have it if he paid more than McCain. But as things stand now, McCain’s wife will continue to buy him his seat until they have to scrape him out of it.
There are consequences when you nominate the Party’s self-described maverick to be your standard bearer. No surprise here.
Even worse is the fact that fat Teddy is so drunk with his own power that even with a FRIGGING BRAIN TUMOR and seizures, he won’t step down!
Any NORMAL person would gladly walk away from whatever job they had, to spend his or her remaining LIMITED TIME with close friends and family, especially when cancer treatments and drugs ALONG WITH A BRAIN TUMOR tend to diminish one’s ability to think clearly and make good decisions.
I wonder how much of the money to get McIdiot re-elected in AZ is coming from Democrat sources.
Cool, high praise!
The problem with McCain is he controls the AZ Chamber of Commerce and they control him -- and the AZ GOP... this is why he keeps pushing Amnesty and this is why he always runs unopposed.
The person who could defeat him, likely with one hand tied behind his back, would be Shaddegg. I don’t think Shaddegg will take the chance of losing the primary and his congressional seat both, which leave JD. JD has mixed approval in AZ, which I fear McCain would mine deeply. I like JD and would vote for him... but McCain would bloody him over Abramhoff as well as the lobby money his wife received when he was in congress.
I sent JD an email last week and asked him to please run.
I wonder... he has gone out of his way to endorse anyone but her for 2012.
He has to be taken out in the primary, otherwise McGavin999 is correct, unless there was a very strong democratic challenger he would win in the primary.
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