Posted on 02/09/2008 3:47:21 AM PST by StatenIsland
A study of Australian POWs after WWII found that they had 30 times the chance of compatriots of the same age of heart attack or stroke.
McCain is pretty much the same ethnotype as those Australians, so it's highly likely he has that same level of risk.
Since he's over 70 years of age the odds are very good that he will possibly not survive to inauguration day in January.
“There have been moans and groans that McCain was getting too many “independent” votes in the primary process. To me, this is EXACTLY the kind of indicator that he has enough appeal to chase these votes in the general, whereas someone like Fred would probably have had to write them off.”
This has been our dilemma from day one - it seems that any and all of our candidates had to either kiss off the SoCons (Rudy) or the Moderates (Fred).
The Moderates would never vote for someone too far right on social issues (I think religion scares them), so the only path to the White House involves the SoCons and immigration hawks holding their noses to vote for McCain.
But this doesn’t shape up to be a “hold-your-nose” kind of election. To win this, Republicans need to pull out all the stops the way they did for Bush - and, of course, McCain does NOT inspire that kind of dedication.
Looks bad, bad, bad right now. But who knows? Maybe McCain starts saying all the right things and can excite the Conservative base. We’ll see. But its SO hard to forget his betrayals, the list of which is staggering in it’s length.
Anyway, none of this is rocket science and we’ll all have to make up our own minds. I do feel that grudging support won’t put McCain over the top, though - it has to be whole-hearted, and I just don’t see that happening.
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