What's interesting is that liberals don't like McCain anymore because he's seen as Bush's butt boy, and, yet, he still does well in these 2008 polls. It's been reported that a lot of Bush's financial backers are looking at McCain as a perfectly acceptable successor to Bush since he's hawkish on the war and is viewed as electable. And independents still seem to love McCain.
Yeah, the indies love McCain......
I cannot stand the thought of him near the White House.
Somebody is going to have to stand up and take the lead, or McCain will get the ticket.
Gag.
I know two hard core commies that love him. They were shocked to learn that I didn't.
May 29, 2005
Old man McCain tries Bush’s crown for size
ANDREW SULLIVAN
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Journalists, whom he has cultivated for years, adore him — but largely because he’s a Republican who sometimes sticks it to Republicans.
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Why not McCain? The usual answer is: he’s too old and not in good enough health. He’ll be 72 in 2008 and had a recent, nasty bout of skin cancer. But his energy is still prodigious; he has that permanent, nerve-jangling haste that besets those who have been campaigning much of their lives. The media would do anything to help him and, last week, The New Yorker obliged with a fawning profile by Connie Bruck. Other journalists were having the vapours last week over his new clout.
Margaret Carlson of the Los Angeles Times gushed that McCain had “pulled the Senate back from Armageddon”. And Carlson is a liberal Democrat. You begin to see why a poll last year predicted that if McCain had been Kerry’s running mate, they would have beaten Bush by 14 points.
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the primary system in the Republican party is still strongly tilted toward fundamentalist Christians, and their leadership despises McCain.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1631925,00.html
Nov 5, 2005
by Robert Novak
MONEY FOR MCCAIN
Sen. John McCain, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, has gotten a tepid response to a New York City fund-raiser Monday for his "Straight Talk America" political action committee.
McCain signed a Sept. 27 letter announcing his appearance at the St. Regis Hotel Nov. 7. The price was $1,000 per person for a 6 p.m. reception and $5,000 per person for a 7:30 p.m. dinner.
Many New York contributors to McCain's 2000 presidential campaign were reluctant to attend this year's event. The fact McCain will be 72 years old for the 2008 presidential campaign was cited to explain lack of enthusiasm, as was the senator's support for the Iraq war.
http://tinyurl.com/a2qtx
Exclusive: Dick Morris Says Hillary Will Be America's Next President
Carl Limbacher, NewsMax.com
Wednesday, May 8, 2002
Not only will Sen. Hillary Clinton make a run for the White House before the decade is out, the former first lady has an excellent chance of winning a national election and becoming the next president of the United States.
That's the staggering prediction from former senior White House political adviser Dick Morris, who lamented to NewsMax.com Tuesday, "The order of succession to the presidency in this poor benighted country may well be Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton."
http://tinyurl.com/8fulp
Would you vote for the devil herself, or would you rather take what's behind door number two?
What horsecrap. I seriously hope the Republican Party isn't being swayed by this garbage and finds a better candidate than McCain.
John McCain attracts legion of admirers to book-signing
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McCain ducked questions about his plans for 2008. But "Character" could have been dubbed "Profiles in Courage" if that title hadn't adorned a 1955 book by another ambitious U.S. senator: John F. Kennedy.
E.J. Dionne, a Washington Post columnist, recently analyzed how these chapters would play in a future McCain campaign. Turns out, there's something for every voter.
http://tinyurl.com/cv66c
I would hold my nose and vote for McCain. But that means a lot of people would probably not vote at all if McCain was the alternative to Hillary.