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.
McCain is in love with HIMSELF.
He thinks he is Senate leader and President, he forgets that he was only elected as one Senator, by Arizona.
Now he is even trying to conduct foreign policy -- remember when he went with Hillary to Iraq and held a newsconference from there.
Now he is in Uzbekistan, criticizing them for cracking down on terrorism.
U.S. senators (McCain)call for inquiry into Uzbek killings (of Islamic terrorists)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412796/posts
He wouldn't get my vote in the primaries anywho. Makes no differance for me.
"McCrazy doesn't have a chance in Hades of winning the 2008 Republican nomination."
You are right on both items. No Prez bid in '08 and he is "McCrazy". Seriously I think he has some psychological unresolved issues that are hampering him. He is an insecure man and I hope/pray he gets some help for his wounded inner psyche. IMHO.
The only time McCrazy really gets out in front of an issue is when he can screw Republican voters and his colleagues.
There's something strange about that.
McCain is NOT Loved by the MSM. If he is nominated as Anything but a democRAT, the Media will turn on him like a pit Bull!!
It will NOT be a pretty sight!
McCain is NOT Loved by the MSM. If he is nominated as Anything but a democRAT, the Media will turn on him like a pit Bull!!
It will NOT be a pretty sight!
Yuk yuk.
McCrazy versus Hitlery is the kind of 2008 ticket that only nutballs like Matthews believe is possible.
No suprise anyway. If you asked "Who is the most obnoxious, consistently wrong, and whacky media personality inside the DC Beltway," the frontrunners would be McCrazy and Matthews. Peas in a pod.
He answers that he would like to be the POTUS
And I'd like to spend a weekend of cheap sex with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. I'd say I got a better chance than McCain.
To dream the impossible dream. The chances that we will not have to suffer through another McCain for President primary season in 2008 is one part in 10 to the sixth. The fact that he has absolutely no chance of getting the nomination won't stop McCain. The Dems favorite Republican has been dazzled by the lights for too many years and foolishly equates the love of the media with popularity. That may be true for the Dems but it is certainly not true on the Pubbie side of the aisle.
Some more "straight talk" from the recent past by McCain. BTTT !!
Just going through old articles, and found your quote from 2005. Here we are in August 2008 and who would have thought we would have McCain, and Obama. Who?
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