Posted on 06/02/2005 10:51:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
A leader of the modern conservative movement says the bipartisan deal to end the filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees was all about the presidential election of 2008.
Arizona Senator John McCain was one of the seven Republicans involved in brokering the recent controversial "compromise" that suspended a Democratic-led filibuster and allowed judicial nominee Priscilla Owen to finally get an up-or-down vote before the full Senate. The deal called for allowing two other nominees to go before the Senate for a confirmation vote, but permitted Democrats to continue their filibustering tactics on future nominees.
Paul Weyrich, the founder and director of the Free Congress Foundation, has been on the Washington scene for decades. Weyrich is convinced "pure politics" were behind McCain's efforts to broker the judicial compromise that ended the filibusters before Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist could lead a change of Senate rules ending the unprecedented blocking tactics.
"I think John McCain could not stand to see Bill Frist [become] a hero to the conservative movement, which he would have been had he been able to deliver," says Weyrich. He feels the Arizona senator's hopes of someday moving into the Oval Office took over.
"To try to derail Frist's possible campaign for the presidency, McCain was willing to undercut his president, undercut his majority leader, undercut Republicans in the Senate, and undercut the country," Weyrich says matter-of-factly. "It is the kind of raw, nasty politics that most of us abhor [and] the kind of issue that is not going to be forgotten. In my opinion, this absolutely seals his fate in Republican primaries and conventions."
Weyrich is not alone in that assessment. Grover G. Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, told FreeRepublic.com that by his actions, McCain has essentially written himself off as a potential nominee.
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I can see that happening, even if it makes me puke.
My opinion of McScam is so low I can imagine him being Hillery's running mate.
I will actively campaign against him.
I'll pick you up.
I'll bring the beer! ;-)
And this is in a state he won, and a county he almost won in 2000.
All of these people swearing to not vote for McCain. Wait till the election, It will be the .................same old story.
Are you going to help elect a democrat? (In this case the Hildabeast rot ham)
Unless the Pro Life Wing can come up with an Anti McCain Candidate this year, it will be ...... the same old story.
I wouldnt think that anybody that valued their life would want their heartbeat to be between Hillary and the Oval Office. I sure wouldn't.
We won't have to bother if he doesn't get the nomination.
Why does a poltician have to make things so...so...political?
Sure he would.
And Hillary will make the same offer Kerry made- VP + Sec of Defense
...one of the reasons that I was an admirer of John McCain is that I met his father (I was in the submarine service) and, if the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, then the son is also a decent and honorable man.
There are a lot of things that I believe McCain has attempted that I endorse wholeheartedly; I have long believed that there is far too much money in campaigns and consequently the "common man" that Jefferson spoke of is not able to run for office--both the Senate and the House have become bastions of power for millionaires or the "stooges" of millionaires--hence the need for campaign finance reform.
I also agree with McCain about the need for smaller government and more fiscal responsiblity. Congressional spending is out of control, whether it is the GOP or Democrats who hold the reins of power. I do not understand the president's ideas for such items as "No Child Left Behind," or "the senior prescription drug program"; and I am perplexed about Bush's stance on stem cell research when, in the opinion of some of us "anti abortionists" life begins only at implantation in the womb--otherwise birth control pills should also be targeted by the extreme pro lifers.
I do not agree with McCain on 2nd Amendment issues or immigration...
...one of the reasons that I was an admirer of John McCain is that I met his father (I was in the submarine service) and, if the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, then the son is also a decent and honorable man.
There are a lot of things that I believe McCain has attempted that I endorse wholeheartedly; I have long believed that there is far too much money in campaigns and consequently the "common man" that Jefferson spoke of is not able to run for office--both the Senate and the House have become bastions of power for millionaires or the "stooges" of millionaires--hence the need for campaign finance reform.
I also agree with McCain about the need for smaller government and more fiscal responsiblity. Congressional spending is out of control, whether it is the GOP or Democrats who hold the reins of power. I do not understand the president's ideas for such items as "No Child Left Behind," or "the senior prescription drug program"; and I am perplexed about Bush's stance on stem cell research when, in the opinion of some of us "anti abortionists" life begins only at implantation in the womb--otherwise birth control pills should also be targeted by the extreme pro lifers.
I do not agree with McCain on 2nd Amendment issues or immigration...
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