George Bush's Campaign Team Joining John McCain

NewsMax ^ | 2/6/06 | NewsMax

[wagglebee]

With the 2008 presidential election less than three years away, more than a few members of President Bush's campaign team have begun to migrate to the current GOP frontrunner, Sen. John McCain.

According to Newsweek magazine, Mark McKinnon, Bush's longtime media adviser, has told the president he's ready to leap aboard McCain's "Straight Talk Express," unless brother Jeb or Condoleezza Rice change their minds and get into the race.

Among Bush fundraisers, the biggest catch, says Newsweek, is Tom Loeffler, a former congressman from San Antonio, who is a Bush-family loyalist and helped build Bush's money machine in 2000.

Ron Weiser, who was Bush's finance chairman in Michigan in 2000, has also joined McCain.

However, in a bizarre observation considering the Arizona maverick's frontrunner status, McKinnon told Newsweek: "I'd rather lose with McCain than win with somebody else."

Other presidential hopefuls scouting for campaign talent include Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, Virginia Sen. George Allen and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Notably absent from the competition: former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was leading McCain in most GOP presidential preference polls last year - but has done little to advance a presidential bid lately.

[Durus]

I think sHillary is the perfect opponent for someone like Allen...or any other real conservative for that matter. She will have to run to the far left to get the nomination which will kill her chance to draw from the "undecideds". At that point conservatism, even from the perspective of the mushy middle, looks far more reasonable then leftist drivel.

It's the perfect chance for a conservative to win the white house and anyone who suggests McCain or Guiliani either doesn't want a conservative in the white house or has completely fallen for the old "Only X can win" argument. Hillary won't be that hard to beat and why should we settle for a Rino when we could elect a the equivalent of a Reagen or Goldwater?

[DoughtyOne]

I can live with it. What I can't live with is the idea of putting the likes of McCain in the Oval Office. No way in heel will I advance that nightmare.

[advance_copy]

George Allen is the next President of the United States.

[alarm rider]

"How do you feel about Haley Barbour?"

I don't know much about him, but would be more than willing to look.

I know a bunch of people have jumped on the George Allen bandwagon early, but I live in a neighboring state, and I have watched him over the last few years. I think he has a bit of RINO in him on some issues, bears watching.

There is probably no chance to get a real conservative to support, but hope springs eternal.

[DManA]

The only reason to conduct this hypothetical discussion is the hope that Republican operatives monitor these threads to guage potential voter sentiment.

My message to anyone like that reading this is don't try to shove McCain down our throats. You and we will be VERY sorry.

[Republican Wildcat]

However, in a bizarre observation considering the Arizona maverick's frontrunner status, McKinnon told Newsweek: "I'd rather lose with McCain than win with somebody else."

Uh...what? You'd rather lose the election than win it? This doesn't make much sense to me.

[wagglebee]

I've been thinking about this a lot today, and here's what I think:

Back in the Fall of 2004, BJ Klintoon sent a bunch of his minions in to "save" sKerry's campaign. What then happened was sKerry fell even farther behind. Perhaps Bush and/or Rove are sending people over to the McLame campaign to insure that he NEVER GETS THE NOMINATION.

[wagglebee]

What issues do you think George Allen is RINOish on?

[JFC]

Never! I will never ever vote for mcvain.

[rintense]

I just don't see how conservatives can rally around McPain- even if it means keeping Hillary out.

[KC_Conspirator]

I tell you what, if I were McCain, there are people from the Bush campaign I would hire too. No offense, but Allen may be my favorite, I don't think he's got a good shot at 2008. I believe that McCain and Guiliani have the best shot. I don't hate either of them, but on many issues they fail to excite me. However, any of those two will look like Ronald Wilson Reagan when standing next to Hillary in a debate.

[Flavius Josephus]

I'll go on record right now. If they try to shove McCain down my throat, I stay home and if Hillary gets elected, so be it.

[Flavius Josephus]

I respect McCain's service to our country, there's no argument with that.

McCain's imprisonment concerns me greatly. I don't trust him. Not with that football, uh-uh.

[rowhey]

I love George Allen. He's my senator and my support for him goes back to the earliest days of his campaign for Governor in the 1993 race. However, his numbers are in the single digits right now when matched up against McCain and others.

Realistically, my guess is that he will be VP candidate.

I have not been a big fan of McCain in the past but I will support him now for the simple reason that he has the most robust posture with respect to the Islamafacists.

To date, he has been the most consistent and outspoken supporter of the war on terror.

[nightowl]

I have predicted months ago that the Republican nominee in 2008 will be Senator George Allen (Former Governor of Virginia) and the son of the late Washington Redskins head coach, George Allen.

However, I have read that McCain earned a lot of capital with conservatives in 2004 for campaigning so hard for President Bush's re-election.

If McCain is the nominee, I will do all I can to get him elected. NEVER HILLARY!

[DBeers]

Unless the Republicans can come up with someone better than McPain, I still go Constitution Party. A vote for the Constitution Party is in reality one less effective vote against the dems...

In politics -it does not matter how right you are; it matters how effective you are...

[johnny7]

A McCain nomination would just about snuff out conservatism... another Clinton in the White House would snuff out America.

Dark days ahead.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Oh, believe me: if the choice comes down to McLame or Hitlery, I'll vote for Mr. Strawberries happily. Hitlery will never ever EVER get my support by commission OR omission.

I just hope someone else get the nod in the Republican primaries.

[DoughtyOne]

A McCain nomination would just about snuff out conservatism... another Clinton in the White House would snuff out America.

Dark days ahead.

When the first Clinton took office, I had some pretty radical fears about what he'd do to this nation. Some of it was realized. Much of it wasn't. I'd detest another Clinton term, but I wonder if it would truly ruin this nation, or simply piss people off so much that they'd NEVER go democrat again.

What continues to amaze me, is that instead of heralding what the left is and showing an exact opposite, we instead go half-measures. For the most part we could have exercise better fiscal responsibility than Clinton. We could have cleaned up the border. We could have modified our trade policies with China in a manner that would have slowed their progress toward becoming the world's leading trouble-maker.

If Hillary gets in, we'll survive it. If McCain got in we'd probably survive that too. I'm just sick of being a part of medeocrity in action.

If McCain pulls Bush's stunt of having $70 million in his warchest the summer before 2008, you'll have to use dynamite to get me out of my house on election day in November of that year. Well that's not entirely true. I'll be voting on state and local issues.

[John D]

If McCain is the nominee, I will do all I can to get him elected. NEVER HILLARY!


You do not know McCrazy. While I would never vote for the Hildabeast, she would not be as DANGEROUS as McVain. I knew him when I lived in AZ. Let others from AZ pipe in. To know him is to fear him.