Regardless of what you think of him, it's going to be John McCain for 2008, now. He'll have his campaign announced, I suspect, before the year is out.
And I think he's probably going to be the 44th President.
For good or ill? Well, I think he's steady on terror. And, let's face it, he's more conservative than either Giuliani or Romney.
As much as it surprises me to be here, I think I'm for McCain.
Of course, I was initially for McCain in 2000 (because he was for a more aggressive foreign policy than Bush), but I switched to Bush when McCain went a little bit nutso against the "Religious Right."
And I think he's probably going to be the 44th President.
Given a choice between McCain and Hillary I would gladly vote for McCain. There are some problems with McCain.
1) His disregard for Freedom of Speech.
2) He obviously disdains the GOP Base.
3) His age/health
I think this election turned out badly for us mostly because of Iraq, and secondly because not enough has been done yet on immigration. If we can get Iraq and immigration into decent shape by 2008 then McCain or Romney should beat whoever the Dems nominate. The thing that nailed us big time in this election was the lack of troop withdrawals from Iraq. We're not showing any concrete, measurable progress at getting our troops out of Iraq. That will be critical for 2008. We need at least half of our troops out of there by then.
It's not just "Religious Right", it's McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-media, McCain-McCain-McCain...
He's too full of himself and just too much nuts to be trusted in any position of power, let alone Presidency. Remember, Kerry was going to offer him a cabinet or even VP position, if he agreed to endorse him.