Posted on 05/28/2005 8:39:45 PM PDT by FairOpinion
By stabbing the President and the Majority Leader in the back in the judges fight, McCain shows that he has no intention of running for President
WASHINGTON—Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced that he has no intention of running for President of the United States this week by his latest egregious blow to Republicans when he joined Democrats in a phony "compromise," that will allow liberal interest groups to continue to block reasonable judges. The extreme leftist group People for the American Way called the McCain sellout, "good news," convinced the measure would help preserve liberal activist judges' influence in the courts.
Senate Democrats have spent the last two terms blocking Bush administration nominees through the unprecedented use of the filibuster to create a supermajority requirement for the confirmation of federal judges. Republican lawmakers, led by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn..), were poised to return to the principle that judges with majority support should not be denied an up or down vote, but they were betrayed in the 11th hour by Sen. McCain.
"When McCain brokered the deal to betray his Republican colleagues by negotiating a private surrender to the Democrats, he publicly declared he has no interest in the Presidency. No Republican could expect to win the G.O.P. nod after betraying his party's rank and file on one of their most central concerns," said Grover G. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and a leader of the center-right coalition in Washington, D.C..
McCain has no further designs on the Presidency, said Norquist, since his actions have now so alienated the base that the fence could never be mended. Norquist went on to say that since his failure in the primary campaign of 2000, Sen. McCain has "screwed" Christian conservatives, gun owners, free press advocates, taxpayers, and now opponents of the activist judiciary. Experts say such behavior precludes any Presidential aspirations by a Republican.
"John McCain has been transfixed by the lights of the cameras," said Norquist. "In the course of running toward the cameras, McCain has now managed to stomp on the toes of every part of the center-right coalition. He has now made it official: He will not be running for President in '08."
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Americans for Tax Reform is a non-partisan coalition of taxpayers and taxpayer groups who oppose all federal and state tax increases. For more information or to arrange an interview with Mr. Norquist please contact Christopher Butler at (202)785-0266 or by email at cbutler@atr.org.
His health is a problem, as is his age, even before you look at his record.
McLame as about as much chance of beating the potential candidates, as does Pataki...NONE! Heck, Pataki would beat McQueeg now and nobody want Pataki.
There are always people stupid enough to vote for him.
McCain just ruined his career. Doesn't have a chance at being elected President, he will be challenged as a Senator in his next race and will loose. Jacka@@ is done. And if he thinks Hitlery or any other CRAT will let him swing in as Vice President, he is nuts. He was used and he doesn't even have the brains to know he was had.
as much as we hate mccain, he is beloved in arizona and will have that seat as long as his heart is still working
"McCain just ruined his career."
This was exactly the point of the article, that by trying seeking the limelight and undermining the Republican Party, he unwittingly undermined his own career. NOBODY will trust him anymore: not the Republicans, not the Democrats.
The RATS may USE him, but not trust him, and his career as a Republican is over.
McCain is too smart not to realize that the fight over judges ultimately comes down to how our society will define a human life and a marriage.
I don't care that he calls himself "pro-life." He just betrayed every pro-lifer in this country.
I'll support Guiliani, Rice or any number of pro-choice candidiates before I support McCain. And if McCain gets the nomination, I'll give serious consideration to Hiliary.
It's good he's not running because I wouldn't vote for his turncoat A$$.
"as much as we hate mccain, he is beloved in arizona "
I believe you are mistaken. I have seen some posts from people in Arizona and they said the opposite.
Norquist is right on this time. If McCain thinks he can run for the GOP now, then he is truly delusional.
'Arizona’s two US Senators also received high approval ratings. Seventy-two percent (72%) approved of the job McCain is doing'
www.kaet.asu.edu/horizon/poll/1999/5-27-99.htm
That's a poll from 1999!!!!!
I wonder what they think of McCain today.
I won't go so far as to vote for the Witch, but if McCainiac somehow did win the nomination, I'd go third party. Personally, I don't think that will happen after this week, when he jabbed a thumb in the eye of the entire GOP base. All he managed to accomplish was the torpedoing of his own and Bill Frist's Presidential candidacies. It goes without saying that nobody from either party will likely ever trust him again as megalomaniacs care only about looking out for themselves.
Wait a minute...I could have sworn he told someone that he didn't know, he was looking at 06, not 08 YET. This was on a news show.
Funny...I heard him say the other day (post coup) he had not made that decision and would not make it for a couple of years.
But not to worry. Campaign Finance Reform will save the day for him.
"Thou shalt not speak unpleasant truths regarding a candidate....."
Am I way off base thinking this has been carefully orchestrated for years?
Ouch
McCain is NOT running for President - as a Republican.
He will try to run as an Independent, IMO.
The media loves him, there is no unbeatable Republican on
the horizon, and Her Majesty will be exposed as the same crook and liar her husband is, only worse. So McCain will try to take advantage of the political vacuum on an Independent slate.
"He'll probably run 3rd party to help his good friend Hillary regain the White House. "
GMTA -- I said the same thing in one of my posts, that you haven't gotten to yet, before you posted your assessment.
That's exactly what I am afraid of, he will act as Ross Perot did, when he ensured a Clinton win, by splitting the votes.
He will get as many democrat votes as republican votes. It will be a push. If a conservative runs on closing the borders they will win.
The Perot factor seems to me to be the only viable way Hillary could ever get her fat ass back into the Oval Office.
It worked for her snake of a husband twice.
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