McCain is old and not popular with the base...won't survive a primary.
Mark Levin thinks McCain may do this.
Right on the money - especially his knowing he can't win the GOP primary. If he thought he had a shot, he wouldn't be trying to cut Zell of at the knees with Brokow during the GOP convention.
McCain is too old to pull this one off. Teddy Roosevelt was much younger and more popular.
I dont trust Mccain but he is smarter than that.
Ohhh. Would McCain step into a void left by Kerry resigning from candidacy? That one hadn't crossed my mind.
McCain was born in 1936, which would make him 72 in 2008. His wife, age 49, suffered a stroke in April this year. I seriously doubt that McCain would want to undergo the rigors of a Presidential campaign at 72 and put his wife through the experience again. McCain also had cancer surgery from his recurring melanoma. I just don't see McCain running for national political office again.
McCain isn't stupid. Even if he wanted to be president, there is no way he could ever do it as a third party or independent candidate. And he knows it.
He can't do it on this election.
The dates to register for the ballot in most states has passed.
Bull (Moose): Expect McCain to replay 1912. ^
Posted by xsysmgr
On News/Activism ^ 09/08/2004 11:05:42 AM PDT · 23 replies · 1,025+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210231/posts
This author is asssuming Mcain will make it to 2008 without a brain meltdown
In fact, he says Kerry would be a good commander-in-chief, which no Republican believes (except, perhaps, for David Gergen).
Gergen is no Republican. He is a back-stabbing Judas who has worked in Republican and Democrat administrations but who went over to the dark side under the evil spell of the Clintoons.
Big weakness of this argument: This time the role of "Taft" would be played by Dick Cheney. But there is zero chance Cheney will run. So there is no quasi-incument to run against. This theory doesn't make much sense.
FWIW.
I just voted in the Arizona primary and wrote in Donald Duck instead of voting for McInsane.
I haven't decide what to do in the general election.
In most states, one cannot run first in a party primary for president and than as an independent in the general election. State rules make that too difficult, and one would be unable to run in all the states. I believe that McCain will seek the GOP nomination. If he were to run as an independent, he would have done so this year, but Bush's signing McCain-Feingold kept him on the reservation another election cycle.