Posted on 06/02/2005 5:14:20 PM PDT by This Just In
ON THE DAY JOHN McCain engineered the "deal" that undercut Bill Frist and apparently sacrificed fine nominees to his own ambition for reputation, The New Yorker hit the stands with a lengthy profile of Arizona's senior senator. The magazine confidently predicted the senator's 2008 presidential run and quoted him as saying, "When people are in close races, I am the first Republican who is asked to come and appear for that person. I am the most sought-after of all Republicans. In this last campaign, I was the one asked by the president to travel and campaign with him....When you look at the rank and file of ordinary Republicans, I'm extremely popular-it's some of the party apparatchiks who still harbor bad feelings toward me. But it is a little hard for them to do that now, because of my strong support for Bush....Particularly since the 2004 campaign, there has been a great softening of dislike for me."
What a difference a "deal" makes.
Many center-right GOP activists had in fact begun to warm to Sen. McCain. He is without question a great American, whose example of valor and sacrifice inspires even his harshest critics, or ought to. His support of the war on terror has also been admirable.
But great Americans can be lousy senators and terrible Republicans, and once again Mr. McCain has proven to be both. He has now done for the judicial nomination and confirmation process what he did for campaign finance reform. He brought the country George Soros and the scourge of the 527s, and with his leadership on the deal that threw at least two of George Bush's nominees under the bus in exchange for the most ambiguous of promises, the senator has once again turned his back on a core constitutional value in order to advance his own agenda.
Whether this was a blunder or a plan to recover from a blunder, we won't know for years. Mr. McCain as first said he would "listen to the leadership" regarding judicial nomination procedure, only to suddenly, on an apparent impulse, declare to Chris Matthews that he would vote against ending the disfigured filibuster. The backlash against him was immediate and intense. Perhaps he thought he could undo the damage to his carefully planned political rehabilitation with a bold "compromise." The result seems just the opposite. Not only is his political house on fire, so too is that South Carolina's Lindsey Graham and Ohia's Mike DeWine.
Mr. McCain's sacrifice of good people isn't the sort of calculation that plays well in GOP presidential primaries.
Either that, or his hearing has gone bad. :^)
Senator Quisling isn't a team player. He can expect the same treatment at presicely the perfect time to shoot his '08 campaign down in flames.
I have hammered him more than once on this and other issues!!
Who knows, he may be Hillarys running mate. The question would be, who will be running as president on that ticket?
McCain won't play "second fiddle" to Hillary or anybody else. Besides, He's too old to wait 4-8 years as VP before being POTUS.
He would likely get more votes as a Dimocrat than he currently would as a pubbie though. I think he's toast now though.
Few faces appear in my mind when I hear that phrase.....except Senator McVain.
I guess he feels that the Hispanics will outnumber all other groups in Arizona, and decided to drop the Evangelical vote. It looks like his Phoenix is going down in flames. (Back into the hole he rose from)
But great Americans can be lousy senators and terrible Republicans, and once again Mr. McCain has proven to be both.
McVain will NEVER get my vote...... even for dogcatcher.
Nam Vet
In Allen Drury's words (blast from the past), he was "Capable of Honor" at one time--which makes us wonder all the more where that loyalty and righteousness went.
glad i'm not his hatmaker...
He is the Manchurian Candidate....for real, in the flesh.
A man who was in Russian captivity can never be allowed to be President. The irony is he doesn't know.
McMainian also forgets that he was the subject of a recall just prior to 9/11.
LOL !! It's been years since I heard that. I can't remember where that came from. Remind me, will ya FRiend?
Nam Vet
Gee, and I've been hearing all this talk about George Allen. So who'll it be?
No one should be allowed in until throughly checked out by the embassy located in that country.
Yep, but McCain has once again banded with Chappaquidic Ted to propose that we fine each of the illegal $1,000 and then give them status. Do you suppose he's trying to find a new political base?
Its from a 50's kids show called Andy's Gang with Andy Devine.I barely remember it (born in 1950)
check out this link:
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/nyuk/froggy.html
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