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.”
If either one of those two win we've lost for sure.
I predict a Hillary/McCain Democratic ticket, after McCain loses his Republican primary bid.
I doubt it.
McCain is too arrogant to accept second place.
Though if McCain really wanted a chance to win the W.H. he would become a Democrat and run in their primary. He'd beat Hillary easily.
You MUST vote!.....against him.
I will NEVER vote for McCain.
No more Bush fake conservatives.
"Though if McCain really wanted a chance to win the W.H. he would become a Democrat and run in their primary. He'd beat Hillary easily."
Interesting thought.
McCain would actually make a pretty good Democrat, in the sense that he is quite socially conservative but does not buy the party line...ANY party!
If he were a Democrat, a lot of pro-war, pro-defense, and pro-life Democrats would actually have somebody to vote for, and he (and people who think like that) would form an instant new, large wing of the Democratic Party who would actually be able to contest control of the party with the hard-left liberals who currently run the place like the Politburo.
The country might be better off if McCain turned Democrat and mobilized around himself a conservative DEMOCRATIC base. There are still millions of them out there, you know. And having conservatives pressing issues from both sides of the aisle would probably make some common sense things, like the borders and taming the judiciary and stopping partial birth abortion much, much easier to get done.
Yes, and
Secretary of Defense: Carol Moseley Braun
Immigration: Arianna Huffington
Presidential advisor: Dianne Feinstein
Press Secretary: Barbara Boxer
Secretary of Interior: Barney Frank
A winning team......for the socialist/communist parties.
Understood, don't think I can do it any longer (hold my nose), looks like the Constitutional party for me.
"This ain't happening."
If it does I am declaring myself a write in candidate for President of these United States of America.
Those of you with the mental dextrity to realize my impeccable qualifications, leadership qualities and are not envious of the plans I have for that two million dollars worth of salary over four years-be sure to spell my name right on your ballot.
F.J. Mutshell
#@&^**()# spell check!!!!!
Agree. I will never vote for McCain.
Switch Barney to the U.N. Representative and a very good list. Or perhaps Voinovich can be their token Republican and represent?
I've said it before, I'll say it again
But, if Condi Rice, is on any ticket, even in 2008, then the GOP will lose alot of votes for the national ticket if the Democrats nominate someone who can at least fake being reasonable
America is not ready for something radical like President Rice or President Hillary.
The best solution is to put a Southerner at the top, a Midwesterner/Mountainwesterner in space 2, and just coast to an easy strategic victory
LOL!!!
"The best solution is to put a Southerner at the top, a Midwesterner/Mountainwesterner in space 2, and just coast to an easy strategic victory"
How about reversing the equation and putting a Midwesterner at the top and a Southerner in space two?
I just had a skull expanding brainstorm.....Ow! ow!...that smarts.
Just imagine the benefits if both parties agree to forego a primary next time, and just go with the Presidential candidate chosen by the powers of each major party. Then instead of choosing a vice presidential candidate-the movers and snakers.....shakers of each party knock heads instead over which parties pick shall head the team.
We the people of both parties, the right and the left, will of course be left entirely out of the proccess, but just think of all that money we will save-not to mention sparing our selves the agony of months and months of campaign ads, assaulting our eyes and ears, as they insult our intelligence.
Then when the party powers shall have ruled whether Dean or McCain shall be the President and the other is relegated to the position of Veep- the Executive branch shall at last have something that some have argued through many administrations was missing -a pair of nuts!!!!!!!
I feel dizzy...
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