[Gipper08]

It is time to stop UNDERESTIMATING McCain. We must have a candidate that can unite fiscal and social conservatives if we hope to defeat Guiliani and McCain and save our party. We must have a true conservative who will implement a Reagan esque conservative agenda.We must have a candidate with whom word and deed are one and the same.I would like to suggest that Mike Pence from Indiana is the only candidate who can be "all things to all men" in the Reagan wing of this party.

[apackof2]

has committed to help Sen. John McCain in a second presidential bid.

RINO alert

[Mo1]

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Mark McKinnon, the Austin political consultant who oversaw the advertising for President Bush in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, has committed to help Sen. John McCain in a second presidential bid.

It won't help

I and many others WILL NOT vote for McCain

[sittnick]

What's wrong with George Allen (VA)? Or Sam Brownback for that matter?

[alnick]

Mark McKinnon, the Austin political consultant who oversaw the advertising for President Bush in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, has committed to help Sen. John McCain in a second presidential bid.

[snip] And McKinnon has indicated he would review his options, should Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or the president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, run in 2008.

This article begins with the unequivocal statement that McKinnon has commited to help McCain, and the remainder of the article says that McKinnon is keeping his options open.

Wishful thinking on the part of the author?

[Alex Marko]

If we dont nominate a moderate in 08, the GOP will lose the white house.(this estimate is void upon Hillary running)

[squarebarb]

McCain takes up a lot of oxygen. He's an expert at it. He'll take up oxygen and money and time and effort until he's shoved out of the picture.

His presidential campaign won't go anywhere but he'll cause a lot of grief in the meantime.

[browardchad]

Wow, the Republican Party really is hell-bent on self-destruction.

I guess the game plan is to stoke the fires of Clinton-hatred so high that voters can't see the real McCaniac through all the smoke.

Should be about the lowest voter turnout in recent history.

[Mamzelle]

McCain is a NUT. Hillary is a CROOK. Which is worse--?

[NonValueAdded]

Get your money in front, McKinnon.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, there is no clear front-runner right now, but there wasn't one in 1997, either. I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Pence emerges as a serious candidate.

McCain is intensely disliked on Free Republic, but not by the Republican Party base in general. He could end up being the nominee almost by default unless someone else emerges who can make a convincing case against him.

[Alex Marko]

Ever think about the theory that the Bush Admin. wouldnt want a GOP candidate to win in 08 because of Jeb's aspirations in 2012?

[finnman69]

I would easily vote for Giuliani and hold my nose for McCain over Hillary

[AbeKrieger]

He won't get through the primary.

[paudio]

I must say BC04 TV ads were not that moving. The ads from other organizations (SwiftVet, PforA, etc) were more memorable.

[eyespysomething]

I won't vote for McCain, even if Hillary is the Dem candidate. If those are our choices, then we deserve what ever we get.

I'll probably vote some 3rd party, so the vote will show up for someone.

The 2 main parties suck.

[sandydipper]

The decision from hell - Cheese Drawers gets the Demo ticket and Sell My Vote McCain is the Republican nominee. I'd probably stay home.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This RINO won't get my vote.

[Coldwater Creek]

We also need someone with a little name recognition!!!!!!!!!!

[hershey]

(Mike Pence needs more press.) McCain doesn't seem to understand how many republicans he's alienated. This last maneuver of his, undercutting the President on judicial nominees is just the latest act of treachery. The MSM will enjoy promoting his candidacy and then cutting him to pieces. They'd like to fix the election, so the GOP would nominate someone unable to defeat Hill, and the way to do that is control the primaries and smear anyone of substance.

[Dead Corpse]

F*ck McCain. I wouldn't trust that son-of-a-bitch with milk money, much less an entire country. He's turned face so many times his head resembles a gyroscope.