I really don't find you have a brain in your head.
Posted on 05/24/2004 3:11:38 PM PDT by Iron Eagle
Everyone keeps talking about McCain on the Democrat ticket. What if Bush tapped him as VP?
Think it is not possible?
McCain is pro-life, which fills the biggest concern for most Conservatives. (He trumps other popular names such as Powell, Ridge, Guliani, and Rice -- all of whom are pro-choice).
He brings military credibility, and a no nonsense approach that, while not popoular, is authentic.
More importantly, he is currently being lauded by democrats. In fact, Hillary is talking about supporting him on the Kerry ticket. Naming him now, puts dems in a very uncomfortable position, as they have all been building him up.
You think Bush wopn't do it? He will do and must do whatever he has to to get elected. McCain brings cross-over dems and moderates. He also is very atrtractive to independents. Bush would do it, particularly if Cheney says it is the best move.
You think McCain won't do it. Get serious. The man wants to be President. He ets to play white night in saving this administration. He gets the seat as heir apparent to the '08 nomination, and, in two years, he will be out of the House and campaigning. In essence, it would be a two yaer gig for him, where he will have real say and real independence. This is his last and best chance to be President.
I love Cheney. But he is almost certainly going to go to try to improve this ticket. In addition, he has no '08 future. The party must have an '08 advantage, and he has always known that.
Right now, Mccain is the best pick for all of these political reasons.
Plus, the Bush/Cheney 04 bumper stickers are already printed.
I hope not! He'd loose my vote if he did.
Another very good reason! :)
"McCain hates Bush."
Which suits me just fine.
I have no respect or regard for Captain Queeg. Why would the President dump a winner for a douche?
I don't know whether it was Bush approved or sanctioned, but they didn't distance themselves of it. I believe it was one of the Christian groups who made some very unsubstantiated statements about McCain and his daughter and inferred that McCain was mentally unstable due to his POW status during Vietnam. Even what should have been a friend Limbaugh was very rough on him.
Clinton popular? Just two years earlier, he sufferred one of the largest congressional setbacks that any president incurred. My dog could have beat him.
Two things killed Dole. One was the savage primary he went through (comapre that to this years dem primary where they jousted each other with kid gloves for the most part).And conservatives overplayed their hand once they won the congress.
Cheney is not going anywhere, he's on record as saying he's not going anywhere as long as Bush wants him as VP, he's staying. McCain isn't even being courted, much less tapped as the VP. McCain loathes everything about Bush.
Suffice to say, I voted for Dole, because I don't vote third party because third parties will forever remain irrelevant, nor do I give a draft dodging womanizer a pass much less a kiss on his proverbial ring.
Who savaged Dole? The Democrat attack machine did. Who savaged McCain? The Democrat attack machine did. Politics is a brutal "sport".
And did Janet Leigh ever consider climbing into a shower stall with Anthony Perkins?
Who savaged McCain? Again, the varioius republican/conservative attack machines. Even the Dems (according to folks like Rush) were in his favor. The phone call campaign against McCain in SC was done by republicans.
The issue is Iraq. If Iraq doesn't improve, I'm not sure McCain would make any difference. If Iraq does improve, Bush will win regardless of the VP. McCain might make a better salesman for Bush's policy, though, and that would be a major plus. Rudy would do the same, frankly.
The creator of "voodoo economics." That still haunts the GOP -- including GWB.
The idea is stupid and if you came up with it get some help.
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. McCain vs. Gore would have been a 6-point McCain route.
I agree, although Rudy wmight cause a major problem with base conservatives who will not look past his pro-abortion stance.
While many Freepers detest McCain, he is pro-life. (In the end, while I love Cheney, he does not add a single vote we do not already have. -- and we started in the hole!)
I was only saying that Rudy and McCain are better at winning converts to Bush's Iraq policy than Cheney. I wasn't talking about anything else-- like abortion or whatever.
Condi Rice would be the way to go.
I really don't find you have a brain in your head.
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