"Damn Tea Party...!"
Posted on 12/02/2014 1:56:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Forget Mitt Romney. Another former Republican presidential candidate is stoking 2016 rumors.
It seemed like another run-of-the-mill interview with a politician on late-night television. Sen. John McCain was on The Colbert Report on Tuesday night to talk about his love of deep-frying turkeys and his new book with Mark Salter, Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War. At the end of the show, host Stephen Colbert asked McCain if he wanted to be the next Defense secretary. And then McCain dropped the mic.
"Actually, I was thinking about running for president again," he said. "What do you think?"
Colbert looked shocked, as did a few Twitter users who wondered whether they heard right. That's because McCain was likely joking, given the satirical nature of the show. About this time a year ago, the Arizonan said that, despite supporters urging him to run again, another presidential campaign was not on his mind. "I can assure you," he told The Arizona Republic, "I don't see it."
Speculation about McCain's political career has remained in the Senate, where his seat is up in two years. The five-term senator, who will be 80 in 2016, has said he is leaning toward running for reelection. In the meantime, he's got a new job to focus on: chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he is expected to continue to criticize the Obama administration's foreign policy.
When and where politicians announce their presidential runs takes a good deal of planning. Blurting it out on Comedy Central at midnight does not. But former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia recently became the first serious candidate to officially announce his 2016 run, so 'tis the season. We've reached out to McCain's office, just in case.
"Damn Tea Party...!"
Hell the only votes he got were for Sarah Palin.
Pinging the men in white coats with butterfly nets.
I was going say that...lol
Straight to the glue factory baby!
Good point, Dole is still alive...
Run him too!
Not just no, but HELL NO!!!
I sure looked that way. Yes. It looked like a thrown match As did 2012.
He can be anything he wants after he’s institutionalized so that
the rest of us are protected.
McCain/Dole 2016?
Sign me up! /s
If McCain (or Romney) actually does run, then the joke's on them, but for now, the joke's on anybody who actually believes he'll run again.
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