McCain sees lots of Republicans running in 2012 (and is quiet about backing Palin)

Reuters ^ | 2010-09-20 | Steve Holland

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain expects many U.S. Republicans to seek the party's presidential nomination in 2012.

"I think there's going to be 1,000 flowers bloom," he said Monday at the annual Washington Reuters Summit.

McCain, who won the nomination in 2008 and went on to lose to Democrat Barack Obama in the presidential election, did not predict who he thought might run.

"I think it's too early," he said.

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McCain's advice to Republicans: Keep your eye on New Hampshire.

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"For Republicans it seems to me that New Hampshire is still the very key place," McCain said.

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"For Republicans it seems to me that New Hampshire is still the very key place," McCain said.

New Hampshire, eh? I wonder who is campaigning in New Hampshire...could it be one Mitt Romney?

Mark my words: should Palin run, McCain will stab her in the back and in the face while pushing RINOs like Romney, and Palin will have no one to blame but herself for electorally supporting a known backstabber.

[IrishCatholic]

McCain is jealous. Before Palin he was hauling his own bags through the airport and couldn't draw a crowd of flies if he tied rotted meat around his neck.

Afterwards, hundreds of thousands went to see Palin and McCain was the person who would have been elected with her.

He knows it and can't stand it.

[omega4179]

Its too bad the public does not see his huge character deficit.

[McGavin999]

I don't know about the rest of you but I'm sick to death of New Hampshire and Iowa picking our nominees.

BTW, I don't expect McCain to support Romney, he'll stab him in the back too, McCain will be backing Pawlenty. He's been mentoring him for years.

[ponygirl]

Since spending $21 million dollars to defeat JD Hayworth in the Republican primary, Arizonans have heard not a single peep from Old Man Juan. He hasn’t spent a dollar since. Who is the enemy to scum like Juan? It certainly isn’t the Commucrats. I wouldn’t be surprised if he jumped parties after winning. I can’t even tell you the name of his opponent because we haven’t heard a thing from either of them.

[dforest]

In 2008 it was obvious the GOP really wanted Rudy. Their back up was McLame because it was his turn.

The establishment owes Romney, but I am sure they have a backup choice this go around.

I wonder who?

[Dr. Sivana]

"For Republicans it seems to me that New Hampshire is still the very key place,"

He's right, why just ask former nominees Pat Buchanan ('96) and McCain 2000. Before McCain 2008, the only winners of the New Hampshire primary who went on to the nomination since Reagan were incumbent presidents, and Reagan's sitting VP, Bush the Elder.

[Parley Baer]

McCain is a RINO. There is no loyalty. It is all about McQueeg. Remember he could no wait to get on all the Sunday Morning talk show and stab George Bush in the back. His dimoKKKRAT buddies and the msm were just lapping it all up. He was their hero.

[tarheelswamprat]

"I think there's going to be 1,000 flowers bloom," he said Monday at the annual Washington Reuters Summit.

Now McCain is quoting Chairman Mao. And like with Mao, there's a hidden threat in the phrase...

[MichaelCorleone]

-McCain’s advice to ...-

Anyone who would take McCain’s advice is either stupid, a fool, or a stupid fool.

[Psalm 144]

Mark my words: should Palin run, McCain will stab her in the back and in the face while pushing RINOs like Romney

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He will do exactly that.

[ntmxx]

I see McShame on the ash-heap of history as being nothing more than a cheap opportunist; scoring less than even that of Walter Mondale or Jimmy Carter.

[Diogenesis]

"They are going to let us screw them all again."

[TitansAFC]

John McCain will not determine who wins in NH.

Just as Romney will basically concede Iowa without saying so, the more Conservative candidates will concede NH to Romney or whoever fills the RINO vacuum instead of him.

It is South Carolina, not NH, that has traditionally determined the winner. McCain just credits NH because it resuscitated him twice; it won't be reviving any half-dead RINOs this time around because Romney enters as the odds-on favorite to be the nominee. The pivotal point of the 2012 GOP race will be SC, the first primary state that will really be in question.

McCain's day has passed; and though he may not endorse Palin (or anyone at all in the primaries), you can bet you bottom dollar he'll only be endorsing someone who endorsed him during his run.

[ken21]

obsolete, senior rino

mccain.

[presently no screen name]

He knows it and can't stand it.

Exactly! And he wouldn't back Sarah because that would be going against the GOP establishment.

I HOPE AZ voters vote him out. I think the GOP is quiet because there is a backroom strategy going on to nominate one of their own, again, in 2012. They hate the TeaParty and what has been going on and now with Christine winning, they can't hold it in. They NEED to keep things status quo - if a true conservative gets in the GOP establishment is over.

[barbarianbabs]

mccain is an old woman

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“I think there’s going to be 1,000 flowers bloom,” [McCain] said Monday at the annual Washington Reuters Summit.

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I wonder if the former Hanoi Hilton POW knows the source of that?

“Let one hundred flowers bloom, let one hundred schools of thought contend.” - Mao Tse Tung

It was a political trap to flush out non-conformists within Communist China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign Probably a peculiar coincidence, but creepy none the less. Definitely creepy.

[presently no screen name]

I wish JD would run on the “I” ticket - i think many dems voted for Juan in the primary.

Since that isn’t going happen - I wish AZ would vote Mr$50LettuceHead out. JUST DO IT!! He’s only going to screw them, again, and the rest of the country.

[Psalm 144]

“In 2008 it was obvious the GOP really wanted Rudy.”

I thought they wanted Romney. Whichever, it was easily and without a doubt the most demoralizing and wretched presidential season I have ever seen.