Posted on 01/20/2006 7:36:34 AM PST by SirLinksalot
My last prediction: Clinton vs. McCain
Peter A. Brown
Three years from now, a new president will be inaugurated. Since this is my last column, I thought I would share my crystal ball with you.
I am less sure of its clarity than at any time in my 30-year professional career that began when I covered the 1976 race between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.
Normally, three years out I am pretty sure who the Republican nominee will be and less certain about the Democrats.
That's because the Republicans respect seniority and until this year always had an obvious front-runner, kind of like a corporate executive vice president waiting to move into the corner office.
The Democrats are less predictable. More often they have been out of power, and that has led them in search of the best personality, rather than the best message.
Looking toward 2008 -- only the fifth time since 1900 that no incumbent president or vice president will be in the race -- I am much surer who the Democratic nominee will be:
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Events have transpired to make Sen. John McCain of Arizona, George W. Bush's major primary challenger in 2000, the Republican front-runner.
But McCain's history of feuding with some conservative groups -- which carry great sway in GOP primaries -- and, at times, the Bush White House leaves him potentially vulnerable on the right.
Yet being a maverick war hero, willing to buck the status quo and even take on his own party at times on ethics and campaign finance, is what gives him the early edge. Moreover, his Senate voting record is quite conservative, and on core GOP issues such as abortion, foreign affairs and fiscal responsibility, he is in the Republican mainstream.
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My prediction
For the Dems : Barack Obama For the GOP : George Allen
Nope
It ain't gonna be Mccain. A solid conservative will beat him in the primary.
Allen would not join a losing McCain ticket.
BS
I wouldn't vote for McCain in a million years. If he were entering Arizona politics today he'd be a Democrat -- no question.
With choices like that, *I'D* move to Canada.
highly doubt youll have all 4 candidates as senators.
Bravo Sierra! McCain cannot make it through a Republican Primary in Middle America and the South.
McCain is too old. Won't happen.
McInsane would be the republican version of Howard Dean.
Howard Dean vs. John McCain....
*shiver*
a lunatic... or a lunatic...
Insofar as who the candidates will be: Hillary and Honest John are like two cow piles. They are equally repulsive.
I'd hold my nose and vote for McCain....but not in a primary. (Unless, perhaps, Hagel was running against him.)
If, as the reporter says, Republicans respect seniority with regard to whom they nominate for president, McCain would have won the nomination in 2000.
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