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George Bush's Campaign Team Joining John McCain
NewsMax ^ | 2/6/06 | NewsMax

Posted on 02/06/2006 5:56:11 PM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; allen2008; bush; frist2008; gop; gwb2008; jeb; mccain; mccain2008; romney2008
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To: Trteamer

Hillary wont win...she may not even get in the race. I hope she does run. Good ol FR will have a field day!
"Hillary..finally a man the Democrats can be proud of"...I stole that from someplace!


241 posted on 02/08/2006 12:43:18 AM PST by rrrod
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To: wagglebee

McCain reminds me of Bill the Cat


242 posted on 02/08/2006 12:45:05 AM PST by stand4somethin
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To: Chunga

Tell you what Chunga, I live in a state that has 15% of it's populace made up of citizens of another nation and millions more are pouring in. Go sing your blues to someone that doesn't.


243 posted on 02/08/2006 12:59:28 AM PST by DoughtyOne (If it's a "Religion of Peace", some folks just aren't very religious.)
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To: wagglebee

"I first met Allen back in 92 when he was running for governor and nobody thought he had a chance against Mary Sue Terry, but he won easily."

Like you, my support for him goes all the way back to 1992...well before the 1993 election. In fact, I was one of the original members of his steering committee. I don't say this lightly...but he's not ready to be the #1 on the ticket.

The reason that I like McCain is simple. He's the only potential candidate who has consistently supported a robust posture with respect to Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and the overall war on terror. By this, I do not mean that he supports the status quo...but rather an expanded force posture.

As to social issues, if we don't win this war on terror the rest of it won't matter so much.

Finally, with regard to your comment that no one thought that Bush could win the nomination in 2000, I don't remember that at all. In fact, I remember that going back as far as 1998 he was regarded as the putative front runner.


244 posted on 02/08/2006 6:12:35 AM PST by rowhey
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To: Trteamer

On the contrary, I support John McCain because he is the only candidate really talking about the need to kill the terrorists.


245 posted on 02/08/2006 6:14:18 AM PST by rowhey
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To: stand4somethin



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246 posted on 02/08/2006 6:14:58 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: wagglebee
That does it. This news makes me physically sick and I may have to among the following:

1. get back in bed
2. start getting drunk
3. slit my wrist

247 posted on 02/08/2006 6:15:38 AM PST by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are familiar bedfellows)
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To: TheBrotherhood
I agree immigration is critical and McCain lobbied very hard all over the state last year against our prop 200 (which passed by a healthy margin and our dem governor has blocked from full-implemention while at the same time making a big deal of moving Nat. Guard to the border to up her re-election chances).... so we already know McCain would be as bad or worse than President Bush on the borders...

I want 3 - 5 candidates for us to all hear from and to hear from us and for us, not the RNC, to choose the candidate to run on the GOP ticket in '08... all indications are that choice is being taken from us and I don't like it.

248 posted on 02/08/2006 9:17:14 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: rrrod

Unless the RNC takes that choice away from us and runs McCain and only McCain...


249 posted on 02/08/2006 9:18:18 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: rrrod
>"Hillary..finally a man the Democrats can be proud of"...I stole that from someplace!

I read somewhere that Hillary and Bill share a vial of Viagra.

250 posted on 02/08/2006 12:39:05 PM PST by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
McCain has a real potential to sway a huge number of conservative democrats. He may have a beef with hard line conservatives because of SC 2000, but I can definitely live with McCain. There is no way I am staying home in '08, unless I want to wake up depressed on the morning of Nov 3.

Ahhhh... A sense of pragmatism, rather than "holier than thou" chest-thumping. How refreshing, and realistic.

251 posted on 02/08/2006 12:41:55 PM PST by NYC Republican
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To: Pukin Dog
I like George Allen, but I fear his star has fallen lately. Right now, unless Condi runs, I am picking a dark horse: Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney has no chance. None. Think about it. If Evan Bayh (whom I think will be the next President) wins the Dem nomination, he'll refer to Romney as just another Massachussetts liberal... He, Warner, heck even Hillary will try to run to the right of Romney. It'll never work bud IMHO.

252 posted on 02/08/2006 12:44:53 PM PST by NYC Republican
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To: wagglebee
There is absolutely NO WAY the country will go for Jeb Bush being on the ticket in 2008.

I agree 100%

253 posted on 02/08/2006 12:55:40 PM PST by NYC Republican
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To: rowhey

Wow! A real McCain supporter, I thought they only existed in the press. So what are you going to do when McCain destroys the 2nd amendment? How much do you really know about McCain?


254 posted on 02/08/2006 5:39:12 PM PST by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: IncPen

Mccain is actually very conservative on most issues (war, abortion , death penatly, sodomy marriage etc)


255 posted on 02/18/2006 10:21:56 AM PST by minus_273
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To: minus_273; Gelato; Waywardson; Broadside

bookmarked...


256 posted on 02/18/2006 10:57:57 AM PST by EternalVigilance (www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: Common Tator
If one can get 70 percent of the voters to favor a policy both parties will adopt it and then accuse each other of dragging their feet on adoption.

What is your take on the illegal alien issue then? Does this make it difficult for Hillary or Obama or Rudy to win the general election?

257 posted on 01/18/2008 1:29:19 PM PST by Tares
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball

There’s no difference between McCain and Hillary, except that McCain pretends to be a Republican. In that way, he could be worse. Look how Bush and legislators worked together to spend like Democrats.


258 posted on 01/18/2008 1:34:11 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: gathersnomoss
20% of the GOP base is Rock-Rib Reagan Conservatives.

If 100 million or so vote for our candidate, that means as many as 20 million will stay home.

Oh well, at least the RNC can sell some of their furniture during their going out of business sale.

We need a new acronym for the RNC like "Really New Castrati".

sarcasm, finally switched to off.....

259 posted on 01/18/2008 1:39:28 PM PST by taildragger (The Answer is Fred Thompson, I do not care what the question is.....)
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