The CIA Director's position is usually a burial ground for ambitious people. Bush I is the only one who has ever beaten that rap, and then only because Reagan raised the elder Bush's political career from the dead in Detroit in 1980.
If you put McCain in, you have easy confirmation hearings, and McCain in the center having a piece of Bush's action. Big ego stroke. McCain sitting at the table at Principal's Meetings would be enough to make him swear off booze. He might even dump this wife and try to date Condi Rice.
Bottom line? It is better to have McCain inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Not really. He'd vacate his seat in AZ only to have an appointment by a Dem gov. Granted, he's a RINO, but we need numbers.
You and I agree. Either McCain or Rudy would be a solid kick in the groin to Kerry and the DNC. Both are superstars seen as having independence from the Bush party line.