Posted on 03/22/2008 5:47:20 AM PDT by kellynla
John McCain is one lucky fellow. Of course you can make your own luck, as the saying goes. That's what McCain did with great courage to survive five-and-a-half years at the Hanoi Hilton. And he made his own luck again by advocating a surge of troops in Iraq that later proved to be successful.
In winning the Republican presidential nomination, however, McCain has mostly been just plain lucky, no thanks to his own fortitude or foresight. Conservatives inadvertently aided him by failing to line up behind a single rival. Mike Huckabee ruined Mitt Romney's strategy by beating him in Iowa. And Rudy Giuliani helped by pulling out of New Hampshire and fading in Florida, allowing McCain to sneak ahead and win primaries in both states.
Now Democrats are boosting McCain's chances of winning the presidency by prolonging the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. "They are eating their own," says Dick Morris, the onetime adviser to the Clintons. The result, for the moment anyway, is that McCain is inching ahead in polls matching him against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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He can’t count on the demfight forever.
I disagree, Fred. If McCain had spoken out on Rev. Wright (like everyone else) he would immediately be labeled a racist. Better to lay low. Sometimes laying low isn't luck, Fred, it's strategy.
He had the Wash Post and Macaca going for him.
Allen was the presumptive candidate that would have united the party. That's why the Post had to have him politically dead.
“Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good”
I agree.
Let Clinton & Obama fight it out between themselves.
Something I learned a long time ago; when two people are face to face in a fight the only thing you get by interfering is a bloody nose. LOL
McCain’s luck starts with Bush’s Presidency.
Bush’s 6 years of never vetoing anything, and his 8 years of supporting one hair-brained reaching-across-the-aisle scheme after another. And his signing of the McCain-Feingold travesty. And his opening the Mexican border wide. And many other things.
I can’t help but wondering, if Bush had been an actual conservative on all the issues (not just a good CIC in Iraq, which I praise him for), would Jeb Bush have been a viable candidate in 2008?
If George Bush had been the president we all hoped he could be, back in 2000, would Jeb have been able to run this year?
It’s just a thought. I wonder what y’all think.
“Never interfere when your enemy is in the process of destroying himself” - Napoleon Bonaparte.
Exactly right. I don’t expect to see McCain taking on an agressive campaign style. He’s going to be the “working guy.”
I think you are correct.And the country would have been much better off.
Which brings me back to my question. You say “the electorate is tired of the Bush family” and then go on to list some of the great things George Bush COULD have done but decided NOT to do.
What if he had done the things you suggest?
Isn’t it possible that the electorate would then NOT have tired of the Bush family?
I doubt it. Allen wasn’t all he was made out to be by some. His lack of eloquence would have made a campaign for President an uphill climb the whole way. On the “macaca” thing, he really should have known better than to say that.
The reason the electorate is tired of the Bush family is that neither President Bush did the kinds of things you suggest. If they had, the elder would have had two terms and the latter would be leaving the office to his brother.
now if juan mccain can just pick a great VP candidate...the election will be his for the taking!!!!
When Bush picked Cheney as Veep I felt a lot better about him as prez, cuz he was not showing much at all during his campaign. I figured Cheney would actually be running the show. So if McCain picks a good veep I will feel a lot better about him. Problem is, what conservative is going to even want to be on the ticket with Queeg?
He will let whoever stomp all over him and play the part of a p-—y.
Agree. If someone like DeMint would join the ticket, then we've just ‘lost’ another Conservative and that person would be prostituting his conservative stance in an attempt to benefit McCain who doesn't want conservative help anyway.
By the way ... why do we keep seeing Lindsey Graham in the background on all the TV shots? McCain says he doesn't need the conservative votes, maybe he'll pick Graham. That would be great for South Carolina ... giving that Senate seat to a true conservative (Buddy Witherspoon).
Fred Barnes is a former Conservative who has now gone over to the RINO Nasty McPain side.
Nope. Americans mistrust dynasties. Overcoming one successor is difficult enough. Two? No way.
Too bad, really, because the Bush family has made remarkable contributions to this country.
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