John looks constipated
Posted on 11/10/2006 5:49:35 PM PST by freespirited
Sen. John McCain, considered the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, intends to launch an exploratory committee next week, GOP officials said Friday....
McCain, the GOP maverick who unsuccessfully sought his party’s nomination in 2000, already has opened a bank account for the committee, one official said.
The senator has made no decision about running for president,” said Eileen McMenamin, a McCain spokeswoman.
Aides to McCain say the senator will discuss whether to seek the presidency with his family over the Christmas holiday, and make a final decision thereafter...
Since losing to Bush in 2000, McCain has alternately challenged and embraced the president, building an independent reputation who isn’t afraid to speak his mind.
McCain has spent the past year padding his Straight Talk America political action committee with supporters in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina...and 15 months before the first primary contest in Iowa, McCain is considered the one to beat in a crowded field of potential GOP candidates. They include Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
An Associated Press-AOL News poll conducted late last month found Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Giuliani and McCain were essentially tied for support. Rice has insisted that she will not run.
This year, McCain had taken steps to improve his relationship with conservatives, addressing a graduation class at Liberty University at the invitation of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, a former adversary...
He has alienated conservatives, however, for opposing a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and supporting federal expansion of embryonic stem-cell research...
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Now he's gonna screw up Christmas... WTF...
I don't think a 72 year old man who is so disliked by his own party really has much of chance.
Exactly. He must be taken seriously and treated as a real threat. The media will not show the average, apathetic, and uninformed voter the real snake that is McCain. This is not good at all.
He can make all of the plans he wants.
I wouldn't waste the sweat (from my under arms) or ever waste a vote on his sorry RINO a$$
TT
Please, John. Be of some use in this war. This is not the way. You are 70 years old. You lost to George Bush. Please, get over it. Retire.
Dear Sen. McCain,
Please remember Nancy Reagan's words of wisdom.
"Just say no."
FReegards,
unspun
Until one minute past when Her Heinous accepts the nomination.
McPain will face much the same opposition that his good pal, sKerry, did. His POW status does nothing to qualify him for office. Is the RNC backs this guy they are nuts. If you search a bit, BDS sems to have it's roots in his 2000 campaign.
Wow! After the self-promoting prima donna does his best to destroy the party, he wants to fix it?
Is he going to run as a Republican or a Democrat?
Please, John, just shut up and go away. You're old; the future is for the young(er). People like Michael Steele, for instance. Jeb Bush. Sonny Perdue. Duncan Hunter. Tom Tancredo. Etc. Conservatives, in other words, rather than RINOs with a heart condition.
none of those people on your list, can stop Hillary in 2008.
if she wins in 2008, there won't be much of an america left for the "new blood" you mention, to rise in the future.
Now the Democrat Media has determined the frontrunner for the GOP. No need for primaries or Republican input.
Whenever I even look at McCain I think of a movie that I once saw, about a politician who's gone through torture at the hands of an enemy.
It's not that I think that anything like the movie might have happened to him, BUT I have to question the rationality on his thinking.
Republican or not - - I would have a VERY VERY difficult time voting for him.......I sincerely hope he decides NOT to be a candidate for the Presidency in '08.
YEEEEAGH!
McCain is our version of Mad How. McCain's mental stability is a bigger problem than any issue position he has taken. I certainly don't want to see the Republicans crater in the same style as Chairman Dean's meltdown.
Making a run as a Republican does not bother me. He won't survive the primaries. What scares me about McCain is a third party run.If say McCain were to team up with say someone like Colin Powell. It would get really strange.
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