Posted on 06/15/2005 8:53:15 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Is a McCain-Jeb Bush 2008 ticket in the offing?
Some Washington insiders think so.
If McCain is to get the Republican nomination for the 2008 election, he’ll need the support of President George Bush.
Recently, NewsMax reported that President Bush’s top media adviser had signed on with McCain for his expected 2008 run.
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne writes that before McKinnon announced his support of McCain, got wind of the McCain-Jeb possibility.
Dionne says "a shrewd and loyally Democratic political operative with personal ties to the McCain” told him that choosing Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as his running mate could be the key to McCain’s success.
McCain was estranged from George W. Bush after the Arizona senator ran against him in the 2000 primaries. But then in 2004, McCain brushed aside unofficial offers from John Kerry to run as his vice presidential candidate, and gave a speech at the Republican National Convention that was strongly supportive of Bush’s policies in Iraq.
And Bush would like to hand over power to a Republican, like McCain, who is committed to his Iraq policy.
Other front-runners for the Republican nomination are Rudy Giuliani and Condi Rice. But Washington Republicans don't fully trust Rudy -- who had a history of bucking the party as Mayor of New York.
And Condi Rice is said to be preferred by the White House as Bush's successor. But so far, Rice has indicated she won't run.
That leaves McCain.
"The president could well come to see McCain as the only Republican with a chance to push a Republican era forward,” says Dionne. "McCain, in turn, knows that his only way around the Republican right is to run with Bush’s open blessing, if not his outright endorsement.”
Bush’s brother could be the "deal-closer,” according to Dionne. "If picking Jeb is the price of winning over George W., McCain will pay it.”
This is probably true, unfortunately. I have always wondered why McCain supported Bush in the last election when we all know he disdains him.
If this happens, I will write in my vote.
I would rather hold onto a Republican congress and let it ruin any agenda of Hillary, before I'd give any vote to McCain.
BINGO!!! You have hit the nail on the head about McCain! He even as much admitted it about the media - he said that the media will believe anything he says and he loves to play with them.
Only in McCaniac's dreams.
I think the General may be enjoying some family time now. He's a total stud and it would scare the world into line as much if not more than GW. I can't think of another person mentioned (besides Rice) that would instill the nearly immediate respect for America it deserves.
Given a choice between McCain Kool-Aid and Hillary Kool-Aid, oh yes I would.
Won't happen anyway (shudder).
But then again folks, look at the source. E.J.Dionne???
Like I believe a word that he's ever said.
Godspeed
MCain today is proposing that the GITMO prisoners should be treated like everyday criminals in U.S. courts with all the rights everyday criminals have in U.S. courts. He accepts the Dim argument that we do not know when, otherwise, we can release them.
It is clear McCain does not fully comprehend the "war" priorities of the war against the terrorists. We are at war. The GITMO detainees are not POWs by Geneva standards, they are enemy combatants.
Just like any war, when will we be able to release the GITMO detainees? When their friends end the war by giving up, and not a day sooner.
More and more I see McCain as a true Manchurian candidate.
It would be the first election I ever missed since 1964.
BINGO! I have never voted for anyone named Bush in a Primary. I've also had enough of Eli's in the White House. Kerry and Hillary winning would add 16 more years of Eli rule in the White House to the last 20. I want a Conservative from a small mid-western college.
if this is the state of the Republican Party...Thank God I left....
I would be out Freeping him on every event in the area.
Not me! The only joy left to be had on Election Day would be casting my write-in protest vote for Ron Paul.. With McCain/JebB on one side and Hillary/Kerry on the other it'd round out the most detestable quartet possible in my view..
it is your thinking that gave us a disatrous war in Iraq and the Big Government and Federal Judicial arrogance we have today...The GOP is a loser for conservative principles...
Franks/Rice is my dream ticket.
Hillary as Prez. McCain as Secretary of Defense. Dean as the W.H. Spokeperson. Yep, that would be a winning ticket. LOL
I have voted since the day I turned old enough. McCain will make me stay home.
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