Posted on 01/24/2006 3:36:29 PM PST by Libloather
White House race: GoP banks on McCain to beat Hillary
Sarah Baxter
[Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:57:52 pm THE SUNDAY TIMES]
WASHINGTON: Republicans are warming up to John McCain as the politician most likely to beat Hillary Clinton to the White House in 2008 and to clear the party of the taint of sleaze.
A poll last week showed McCain could trounce Clinton, the Democrat favourite, by 52 to 36. The 16-point lead reveals that he has a decisive advantage among independents and swing voters.
"The more scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain. He is at a high point right now," said Chuck Todd, editor-in-chief of National Journal's Hotline news service, which commissioned the poll.
The Arizona senator's standing among Republican activists nosedived after he was beaten by George W Bush to the presidential nomination in a bitter race in 2000.
However, McCain went on to stake out an independent position on the war in Iraq, which he considers to have been botched, and he led a successful campaign in Congress to ban the use of torture and the cruel and degrading treatment of detainees.
Republicans have found the maverick senator indispensable in their struggle against the blues that have afflicted Bush's second term.
McCain is at the centre of every debate, where his hawkish views on the war on terror, Iraq's future and a nuclear Iran have won him respect.
In Congress he is leading his party's efforts to get out of a mire over lobbying and corruption after Jack Abramoff, a Republican lobbyist, was indicted for attempting to bribe politicians.
I think this article is a joke. It's some sort of strategy article to drive us Republicans insane.
Maybe the figure he gets the Hindu vote - both of them.
I hate to spell this out, but what you just wrote is almost certainly the strategy here.
Which I definitely do not agree with.
McCain is no more loved among GOP Primary voters now than he was six years ago. If anything, he's even less loved.
If the media could pick the nominee, McCain would crush the competition. Fortunately, the media's registered Democratic.
Neither will I.
I still think he is the "Manchurian Candidate."
Let me expand... I would work to the death to see a REAL conservative beat McCain in the primary.
Feel better?
I might have to sit that one out.
I just know this post is gonna be pulled. ;o)
No, no, I realized before as to your intentions -- no need to expand for my account. I was just saying that your earlier comment is probably closer to the truth than you, definitely me, would likely want.
McCain can drop dead. He will never be my President.
2008 could be the year of the 3rd party then.
This....stuff...from the Times of India? When hell freezes over.
No way McCain gets through the GOP primary.
I wouldn't bank on McCain getting the nomination.
As in, it's motivation to not expend by conservatives...if McCain was ever the GOP Presidential candidate (shudder), we'd all be working double, triple time to even get excited first, then second, we'd quickly lose sight of why we were. Thus, it would make it far easier for Hillary to get her grubby paws back on the White House, and Bill along with her.
Every conservative, say this aloud, just once: "BILL IS THE NEW FIRST MAN."
Now that you've returned from the bathroom, start working now to silence this very notion that McCain is the GOP candidate.
We can easily beat Hillary. Don't let them edge their way farther into fantasy land by alleging McCain is a likely Presidential because it only serves to push Hillary farther forward in association with the word, "President."
Which is what the objective is, I'm thinking...this is fantasy "news" written to make people like Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore feel "smart."
MSM keep pushing McCain.
If the GOP does go with McCain, the Dems will get a win by default. It will be similar to 1996 and it could guarantee a win for Hillary.
McCain will have a deaniac meltdown before Super Tuesday, if anyone seriously challenges him.
Is McCain the best we've got? please.....
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