Posted on 11/11/2013 3:14:50 PM PST by mandaladon
It’s sad that Maverick’s taking this idea just seriously enough that he’d think to mention it to another human being. He’s 77 years old, ran a famously chaotic campaign in 2008 before getting crushed on election day, and would face a much stronger, younger field in the primaries than he did last time. That he forced me just now to devote even half a second of thought to how he might stack up against the 2016 contenders is frankly embarrassing, and something for which I’ll never forgive him. It’s like watching a 60-year-old pitcher announce that he’s thinking of coming out of retirement, if his career highlight had been getting shelled in Game Seven of the World Series.
But — on an egregiously slow holiday news day, this is manna from heaven. I’ll make him a deal: I promise him my endorsement if he chooses Mitt Romney for VP. “Particularly since the shutdown, I’ve had a spate of e-mails and letters and phone calls saying, ‘Run for president again,’” McCain told The Arizona Republic. “As you know, I’m seriously thinking about running for re-election to the Senate. But I think, in the words of the late Morris K. Udall, as far as my presidential ambitions are concerned, ‘The people have spoken — the bastards.’”…
While even McCain agrees that another presidential candidacy seems far-fetched, Bruce Merrill, a veteran Arizona political scientist and pollster, told The Republic he has fielded multiple calls from out-of-state reporters this year investigating the possibility. McCain was critical of the GOP strategy to try to defund President Barack Obama’s health-care law, resulting in a partial government shutdown. McCain emerged with better national poll numbers than others associated with the crisis, including “tea party”-style U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
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No, it should make the people from AZ want to hide with shame for ever having elected that clown.
Yeah, and every damn one of 'em are Dems.
Oh Juan. Even you aren’t that stupid.
You just explained a lot I had never considered. What makes McCain insane
Can’t we send him to a cold little island? St Helena, or even better yet, the Kerguelen islands in the very southern Indian Ocean.
JF Kerry has ALL the credentials for the job.
McCain almost picked Kerry as his V.P. I’m sure he’d do it. I just don’t think Hillary’s crazy enough to want a wacko bird on the ticket. She doesn’t need any Stockdale moments.
Only in your own mind....McPain!!!
Retire and look into assisted living you are a danger to yourself and others.
The MSM lib-cult media essentially nominated him in 2008...
So the DEMS could beat him like a rented mule in the general...
McLame??
...delusional... at best....
Since they, the MSM, successfully pimped the Maverick for over 6 years under Bush, they could very well make this so again.........
Yes, John, they are. They’re called liberals and they want you to block out any better candidates.
When I want a laugh I read the comments on McCains FB page. Man reading the comments of sane people is uplifting.
I’m begging his tumors to finish their job already.
I’ll bet thousands of Democrats are begging him.
Name one, just one, Juan.
Not many has crashed so many miltary planes.
Not many have been paid with so many Vietnamese hookers.
Those aren’t people telling you to run again John,those are just the voices in your head.You will have to learn how to tell the difference.
Poor bastard, and a hero bastard at that, is now hearing voices. Please, please John, retire with a modicum of decency. Stop hurting us with your presence!
Bat is not laughing.
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