[pissant]

He ain't dead yet, but the undertaker is warming up the hearse.

[Question Liberal Authority]

I live a couple blocks from McCain's office and got a call from his campaign. Their entire argument was "you don't want Hillary to be president, do you?"

[proxy_user]

His supporters like a particular type of candidate: strong on defense, fiscal conservative, doesn't care much about social issues. When Guiliani came along, they decided he was a better candidate of that type, and more likely to win.

[TennTuxedo]

Keep an eye on him in the role of spoiler ala the bird brained Texan who ran against George Herbert Walker Bush and helped to get Klinton elected.

[xcamel]

As I predicted a month ago...

"Slim , and none, and Slim has left the building"

[edcoil]

To my knowledge he is not an announced candidate. He has simply started an exploratory committee. This is not a candidate, 25 folks have done this.

[Jim Robinson]

"The GOP in Arizona elected anti-illegal immigration champion Randy Pullen as its state chair last month, sending a message to McCain that his moderate views would not control the GOP in Arizona. Immediately after Pullen’s election, the entire staff of the state GOP resigned, ostensibly because the candidate for state chair they saw as pro-McCain had lost."

Hoo boy. That's gonna leave a mark.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thank Goodness. The man is mentally ill, God Bless Him!

[blam]

I wouldn't vote for McCain for anything.

[TomGuy]

The Demise of McCain’s Presidential Bid

So, now what??? What's gonna happen to Lindsay? He was, after all, anticipating the VP stop on the McCain-Graham ticket. Now, the best Lindsay can hope for is relection to the Senate.

[snicker]

[LtdGovt]

A bit early, don't you think? I'm not a big fan of McCain, but three polls showing him trailing Rudy by a bigger margin do not make him dead. We should wait until the campaign really gets started. He is the establishment candidate.

[capt. norm]

McCain is just too unstable for me.

Think about his actions in the last 10 years or so.

He's done everything he can to get his face on the media cameras without regard to the real damage done by his actions in the Senate (McCain-Feingold....and the list goes on).

Nobody on his campaign staff would ever allow him to think it's all over because they want to draw the rest of their paychecks.

I think it's fairly obvious that he is already toast and we're a long way from when the actual campaign should even be beginning.

[Phlap]

(although)McCain recently appointed conservative Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona to chair his presidential exploratory committee ... his second wind at a presidential campaign has already run out of steam before it’s even officially started.

He never had a first run. He was used(egos are so easy to manipulate) by the liberal media as a way to attack Bush.

[hinckley buzzard]

Immediately after Pullen’s election, the entire staff of the state GOP resigned, ostensibly because the candidate for state chair they saw as pro-McCain had lost

Diseased, corrupt political diarrhea like this is what cost us the majority in 06. When the party schmucky-mucks insist on commiting suicide, what is a rank and file member to do?

[Zathras]

Seems funny that we have to go to liberal Hawaii to get an honest conservative assessment of McLame.

[The Duke]

Word is McCain still has the media vote sewn up! :) </sarcasm>

[Norman Bates]

his support among Republicans has eroded too deeply; his second wind at a presidential campaign has already run out of steam before it’s even officially started

I seriously doubt it. This sounds more like famous last words.

[Tax Government]

Anybody associated with the McCain-Feingold act should be tarred and feathered, and spend the rest of life begging with a tin cup on a street corner.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

McCain’s criticism of Bush’s former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld angered a lot of Republicans who view Rumsfeld as a hero. “We are paying a heavy price for the mismanagement, that’s the kindest word I can give you. I think Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history,” McCain said on February 19, 2007. This is how a Republican presidential candidate characterizes a top cabinet official from the prior Republican administration, with a barb declaring his secretary of defense as worse than even the most liberal Democratic secretaries of defense Les Aspin, Robert McNamara, and Harold Brown?

Is that the judgement of a man we want in charge of the Defense Department?