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.
Nation's Republicans to Sen. John McCain: F%$#-U
McCain will run third party -- just remember Ross Perot. That's what he is angling for. And maybe Hillary will offer him a VP spot.
Even McCrazy isn't that crazy.
What, you think only the people on FR know he's insane?
Nope. That's precisely why the MSM loves him, because he's an off-the-wall, mercurial, newsmaking kind of oddity.
McCain as 2008 nominee is ridiculous, not worthy of serious discussion.
......just running at the mouth.
Maybe he will offer Hillary the VP spot. Do not rule out John jumping parties. A long shot, but a possibility. He will need the right venue: "my party left me etc." A grandiose show of statesmanship.
McCain hates dubya so much that he would help flush our Constitution down the toilet before he would actually do what is right for the country.
McCain established himself as a fool long ago. This new movie, Faith of the Father's is a klintonesque approach to garner praise and sympathy for McLaim. McSwami is going down for this reason, gulliable enough to help the democrats and sell-out his party. One thing we freepers should remember, liberals love to make movies about' F--k Ups' JFK(alleged war hero)had an affair with an east german spy while in naval intelligence and was quickly moved, not relieved of duty to the PT 109. While being the skipper of PT 109 jfk and members of his crew were intoxicated and a Japanese destoyer severed PT 109 in half. Consequences? no court martial or disciplinary action. However, later on a movie depicting (jfk) as a war hero suddendly appeared. Scary kerry,(alleged war hero) armed with 8mm camera and underwood M79 typewriter became a naval exchange hero by submitting fictious reports concerning his pin prick war wounds(self-inflicted by ignorance and planning) So alas, we have another war hero. As to a movie concerning scary, he did have a (home movie) depicting his acts of heroism. Now McLaim, (the Songbird) as I have been informed, suddenly is a celluloid war hero of the Hanoi Hilton. Interesting, this movie suddenly appears after selling us out to the commies in the senate. Those three klowns are not real war heros, but useful idiots for the demo-commies. (the elitist) I do know of some real war heros, Sergeant Alvin York, 2Lt. Audie Murphy, and Jerimiah Denton and US Marine who lives next door to me. McLaim is a hero in his own little self-important RINO nuerotic demo-slimed mind. I hope that I have clarified the heros of the left for all who read this post. Sincerely, NSNR
FNC seems to know McCain IS running for president. He has set himself firmly in the middle as far as the MSM is concerned.
Perception is reality for the MSM.
Nations Republican's to Sen John McCain: We won't vote for you anyways.
YES!!!!
Put a period at the end of "this week" in the first sentence, and it will more likely be a true statement: he's not running for president "this week". Now, next week....stay tuned.
John McCain is in love with the "traditions" of the Senate. With compromise, principles are more often than not, sacrificed. The Chamber is filled with empty suits more interested in Sunday Morning Talk Shows than following the Constitution.
Yeah, he married a woman for her family's dough, ala J. "effin" [excuse my frency] Kerry.
You can say that again. He's dead meat in Iowa and he would need a decent showing here.
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