When McCain Drops Out

Yahoo News ^ | 06/15/2008 | Steve Rosenbaum

[Responsibility2nd]

When the Republicans choose their candidate on September 4th, there is a very real chance that they could throw the election into an unexpected chaos as they pull a genuine September Surprise.

I think there is every reason to believe John McCain won't be the nominee. Ok, let me say that again. McCain will not be the Republican candidate in November.

Here's how it could happen:

At some point in mid August, John McCain will announce that he has decided that he can not accept his party's nomination for president. The reason will be health-related, and that may turn out to be the truth. Anyone who's seen him on stage these days knows he looks like he's about to keel over. And anyone who's been on a presidential campaign knows the physical demands are grueling and can be a challenge for a young man.

But excuses or facts hardly matters. He won't be accepting his party's nomination.

The reasons are simple. He can't win. Now that Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee -- the polls all show that McCain's pro-war stance and Bush endorsement make him a lost cause in November. That combined with soft stand on litmus test conservative issues make him an unpopular candidate among the base. I know some Democrats that think the Republicans are planning to let McCain lose and 'sit this one out' so that they can hang the democrats with a bad economy and a war that is a morass. But that just isn't how they play. They play to win every hand -- think about 2000 with a popular Democratic president and good economy and a solid VP running for president.

[Responsibility2nd]

There wasn't room in the title to put: "WARNING This thread makes sense if you first smoke lots of crack"

[brownsfan]

I’m wondering if this idiot would like to make a wager.

[Sybeck1]

This same article got pulled last week. I can’t stand McCain, but he’s what we got.

[xDGx]

from Huffington Post, where the editors make Dennis Kucinich look lucid...

[Cementjungle]

Amazing what passes for “news” these days.

[goldstategop]

I'd like to dump McCain and have him replaced with a solid conservative. If any one would step to the plate to face Obama in the fall.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[pissant]

McCain drop out? Wishful thinking, but damn it would be nice.

[Nervous Tick]

...and monkeys could fly out of John McCain’s butt. Here’s how that could happen. First, Cindy could give him a monkey for Independence Day. This monkey could grow wings, and then he could accidentally eat it, or even sit on it. And next thing you know, out flies a monkey!

[Nachum]

Just DemocRAT fantasies.

[fish hawk]

I didn't look up “Steve Rosenbaum” but I'll bet he is a lefty. Nothing like this IS going to happen except in Steve's wet dreams. As Forrest Gump says, “and that's all I got to say about that!”

[Operation_Shock_N_Awe]

“...popular Democratic president and good economy and a solid VP running for president.”

Proof of crack smoking.... Algore is considered a “solid VP.”

[TexasNative2000]

When McCain Drops Out

Four months too late.......

[arthurus]

The wishful thinking of a worried obamanite?

[Parmenio]

From the article:

There are a whole list of Republicans who in many ways are more likely to energize the Republican base. One thing is certain -- there are candidates that will play to the core issues in ways that McCain simply can't. Here's a list of names. Some you know, some you don't. But each of them knows their name is in play. Among them --

Condoleezza Rice (Secretary of State) Colin Powell (fmr Sec. of State) Marilyn Musgrave (Colorado Congresswoman) Mitt Romney (fmr Massachusetts Governor) Mike Huckabee (fmr Governor of Arkansas) Charlie Crist (Florida Governor) Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota Governor) Bobby Jindal (Louisiana Governor) Mark Sanford: (Governor of South Carolina) John Thune (Senator from South Dakota) Dick Lugar (Senator from Indiana) Chuck Hagel (Senator from Nebraska) MIchael Bloomberg (NYC Mayor)

Hagel, Lugar, or Bloomberg anyone? I'll stick with McCain, thank you.

[Cyber Liberty]

At some point in mid August, John McCain will announce that he has decided that he can not accept his party's nomination for president.

The author is on crack. McQueeg wants this even more than Hillary Clinton. If there is someone he can have killed to get into office, then they're as good as dead.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Amazing what passes for “news” these days.

Ya gotta look on the bright side... at least you dont’ have to pay AP to use nonsense like this.

OK, yeah, I’m grasping at straws...

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

We heard this in the primaries. He can’t win, it’s hopeless, he’ll drop out or drop over or both, any minute now.

[SkyDancer]

I’ve been flipping back and forth on who to vote for. OK, reasoning: There are two candidates, McCain and Obama. One is a Democrat sympathizer and the other is a Marxist-Socialist. If Obama gets in and with a Democrat Congress/Senate he can totally destroy this country worse than what Jimmy Carter did. Then we can really blame the Democrats and they’d never get in power again - it’s that or have McCain do the same thing and the Republicans will get the blame. It’s a dilemma not unlike some guy watching his mother-in-law drive off a cliff in his new Cadillac ......

[MindBender26]

>>>>make Dennis Kucinich look lucid...

Scotty to Capt Kirk:

“It canna be dune, Cap’n, It canna be dune!”