McCain Holds the Cards

Newsmax.com ^ | 02-25-06 | Weyrich, Paul M.

[Theodore R.]

I think that the GOP will anoint McCain because: (1) The party tends to prefer candidates who have previously run for and lost the party nomination. I know that GWB is an exception to that rule, but in a sense for many Republicans GWB was the third candidacy of GHWB. (2) He is well known, and many primary voters will support only the candidate that they have heard about. (3) He is seem, probably falsely, as a maverick and an independent who can attract moderates and even some liberal Democrats. (4) There is such a fear of the inevitability of the return of the Clintons that the GOP will nominate once at odds with key party positions in order "to win." (5) The GOP does not shun aside candidates who are past the age of 70.

[goldstategop]

Of course but I will neither support him nor vote for him. He has no use for conservatives. And I don't trust a Republican the media loves.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[digger48]

MaCain is the "Wild Card"

[DoughtyOne]

Place me in the not interested column as well.

[LdSentinal]

And what was McCain doing today? Stumping for Tom Kean Jr. in New Jersey.

He's still better than that anti-Semite Pat Buchanan.

[Theodore R.]

Maybe McCain will self-destruct, but the party wants a winner and someone that the members have heard of. Most Republicans couldn't pick out Dr. Frist or Senator Allen from a police lineup.

[JOE6PAK]

PLEASE!

Some new faces and ideas might be nice.

[digger48]

When McCain ran in 2000, I was taken by the 20 minute infomercials the ran about his life. So I watched what he was DOING, not what he DID.

The guys is a kook.

[Cicero]

Paul Weyrich has gotten awfully pessimistic these days.

I wouldn't touch McCain with a ten foot pole. Or even a twenty foot pole. He belongs in a loony bin.

[SIDENET]

I won't vote for McCain, no matter what.

[digger48]

Do you think the Media will give him the 15% they gave Kerry?

If, and it's a BIG if, he gets the nomination, He'll find out how few friends he has OUTSIDE the Washington Press Corps

[COEXERJ145]

Seems like the people pushing McPain the hardest, other than McPain himself, are the members of the media.

This way if it ends up being Hillary vs. McCain, they will win either way.

[digger48]

or in it

[brainstem223]

If mcPAIN gets in your gun rights are toast. He is as ant-gun as a schuumer~~!

[Ikemeister]

I won't support McCain, and you can bet that the liberals in the media who love him now would destroy him if he got the Republican nomination. When it comes to the general election, the media will support the Democrat, not a cheap imitation.

[Theodore R.]

He may be a kook, but he can fool the majority of his party voters and probably the electorate as a whole. People think he is a hero, and nothing will change their mind about that.

[SuziQ]

I don't put stock in ANY election punditry this far out because it is ALWAYS wrong! In 1998, McCain was supposed to beat out that national novice George W. Bush in the 2000 primary wasn't he?

[Uncle Hal]

If its Hillary vs. McCain, you will vote for McCain. Guaranteed.

[Theodore R.]

I agree: the Democrats won't vote for McCain, but many Republicans incorrectly think that many Democrats will swing to McCain because of McCain's "hero" status.

[Theodore R.]

In 1998, McCain was not well known, but now he is known by nearly all. Name ID means a lot among ignorant voters.