Posted on 11/10/2006 10:19:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. John McCain, considered the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, intends to launch an exploratory committee next week, party officials said Friday.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting a public statement from the four-term Arizona senator.
McCain, the Republican maverick who unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination in 2000, already has opened a bank account for the committee, officials said.
"The senator has made no decision about running for president," said Eileen McMenamin, a McCain spokeswoman.
Aides to McCain say the senator will discuss a presidential bid with his family over the end-of-the-year Christmas holiday.
McCain, 70, is a former U.S. Navy pilot who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He was elected to the Senate in 1986, and served in the House of Representatives for four years before that.
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The core conservative base (the people who actually vote in pubby primaries) will never vote for McCain. There is no point in offering the number two spot to because McCain can't deliver any specific demographic in any appreciable numbers to bother with.
Romney's spineless and will be a "lousy push-over, give the dems what they want and let's make nice" president. The dems will ride him hard and put him away wet. Not what I want in a president. No Thank You.
Welcome to FR.
I will not vote for McCain or the party that runs him. I would prefer a conservative with conservative principles. We better decide what these are.
The uninfringed Second Amendment is a fine, for me, litmus test. Have you ever heard anyone advocate the uninfringed Second Amendment AND a moderate position on anything else?
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns.
Welcome to FR.
I will not vote for McCain or the party that runs him. I would prefer a conservative with conservative principles. We better decide what these are.
The uninfringed Second Amendment is a fine, for me, litmus test. Have you ever heard anyone advocate the uninfringed Second Amendment AND a moderate position on anything else?
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns.
Well I was trying to play nice with redgirlinabluestate but if that's the way you feel about Romney how about...
Sanford/Santorum '08
I don't know anything about Sanford so I've gotten an open mind and am willing to learn more.
I like Santorum, but the press wants to burn him in effigy so he might be a bit of a lightning rod that way. But the MSM is going to go after any candidate with an R after his name, so if he's game, I am too.
No wat I would vote for McCain in the Republican Presidential Primary.
If the Manchurian Candidate where running against the Hildabeast, I MIGHT hold my nose and vote for him, but don't bet the ranch on that..
I think our good FRiends in SC will knock him down again in the primary. But he has the guv and senator cabana boy in his pocket.
Translation:
NO WAY I would vote for McCain in the Republican Presidential Primary.
Panama already rejected him, why do you think he's running here?
And on what basis do you make this wild assumption? Do you live in Massachusetts? Have you been to any of his speeches? How much do you really know about him?
He makes quite an impression in person. I wouldn't count him out just yet. I don't see anyone else with much more testicular fortitude around that is electable.
I wholeheartedly agree, we don't need any wimps for president.
a a a a a a a !
I'm 29 and there is no way McCain will get my vote in the primary. I held my nose voting for Dole, proudly voted twice for President Bush, but McCain ain't happenin' for me.
Here's some information that I've been gathering.
Governor Mark Sanford (SC)
Current Office: Governor
Office Seeking: Governor
First Elected: 11/05/2002
Last Elected: 11/05/2002
Next Election: 2006
Party: Republican
General Information
About the Office
Background Information Additional Information
Gender: Male
Family: Wife: Jenny
4 Children: Marshall, Landon, Bolton, Blake.
Birth date: 05/28/1960
Birthplace: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Home City: Sullivan's Island, SC
Religion: Episcopalian
Education:
MBA, University of Virginia, 1988
BA, Business, Furman University, 1983.
Professional Experience:
2nd Lieutenant, Air Force Reserves, 315th Aero-Medical Evacuation Squadron.
Real Estate Finance and Investment.
Political Experience:
Governor, State of South Carolina, 2002-present
Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1994-2000.
Organizations:
President, Boy Scouts of America, Coastal Council, 2001.
FLYING HIGH
It isn’t only his duties as governor that take Sanford away from home and family. He
also is a captain in the Air Force Reserves and must meet regular commitments that take
him out of state.
He was commissioned in January 2002 as a first lieutenant in the Reserves, a member of a
medical evacuation team based in Charleston. In 2005, he transferred to an Air Force
emergency preparedness agency out of Atlanta. The new unit gives him greater
flexibility on service
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/election2006/15704902.htm
He was part of the Class of '94 but left in 2000 per his campaign promise on term limits.
He's known as a tightwad.
He's known to not be shy about his power to veto pork-laden bills.
He was just re-elected as Gov of SC.
In case you didn't catch onto it he is currently enlisted in the Air Force Reserves.
Here is a petition to Draft Mark Sanford. It was just trolled today by someone so I'm trying to get ahold of the guy who started the petition to see if he can clean it up but have a look see. =)
http://www.petitiononline.com/msan2008/petition.html
Like a freakin' lead balloon
"How old was Reagan when he became President?"
I think 68 or 69?
If he's nominated, I will, for the first time since I cast my first vote
for Richard Nixon, stay home.
Powell? ya gots ta be kidding?
I am with you
Really? I never knew that, does that stop him from running in 2008?
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