Posted on 11/10/2006 4:44:29 PM PST by John Carey
Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), considered the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, intends to launch an exploratory committee next week, GOP officials said Friday.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting a public statement from the four-term Arizona senator.
McCain, the GOP maverick who unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination in 2000, already has opened a bank account for the committee, one official said.
"The senator has made no decision about running for president," said Eileen McMenamin, a McCain spokeswoman.
Aides to McCain say the senator will discuss a presidential bid with his family over the Christmas holiday.
McCain is a former Navy pilot who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He was elected to the Senate in 1986, and served in the House for four years before that.
If McCain were to run, he would turn 72 on Aug. 29, 2008, at the height of the campaign. Only President Reagan was older — 73 at the start of his second term. McCain's health could be another issue. The senator has had several cancerous lesions removed from his skin.
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Sorry to all McPain supporters, but I held my nose and voted straight R on Tuesday, but I draw the line right here and now.
Time enough to go into my reasons over next 2 years, but as a Nam Vet, that should say it all.
If not, I'll just throw out his shameful support (and bud-bud) of John "The Snake-Traitor" Kerry in 04; his basically telling us Nam Vets to stuff it, sit down and shut up and get over it as well as his selling out the POW/MIA's
I won't even go into his helping push thru a normalization with Vietnam without holding them accountable for their complete lack of human rights and accounting of our POW/MIA's
And if that's not enough for starters, he's an F'N RINO, with a capital "R."
You mean "Mrs. McCain"?
How about:
Sanford/Santorum
Sanford/Hayworth
Sanford/Noticeathemeyet
=)
I have no idea. I only found ACU ratings for the US Senate and House.
McCain got a small taste of what the Viet Nam vets have in store for him when Bush "swiftboated" him in south Carolina.
Explore This! (draw a big middle finger extended here!)
This Christian will never vote for someone as nutty as McLame, even if Hillary is the alternative.
Hillary's transformation to a moderate has more credibility than McCain's transformation to a conservative.
Not electable. Barbour/Steele!!!!!
Thank goodness the presstitutes don't vote in Republican primaries. That's the only way McCain would stand a chance.
Honestly, is McCain so blindered that he can't see that he will never get through the primaries?
Dear Senator McCain:
I was going to rush you a contribution to help you get started in your futile bid for the Presidency, then I remembered that you and your pal Russ Feingold have made that impossible.
Good luck.
/sarcasm
It could be worse you know. It could be a Hillary/McCain ticket.
Honestly, I have never met a McCain supporter. I have real trouble believing that they even exist, at least in the GOP. The only true supporters of McCain are the anti-gun leftists and the press. If I ever do meet a Republican that supports McCain, I will give them an ear full and tell them what an idiot they are. I guess there must be enough idiots in Arizona, they keep electing the ass.
I like Barbour too.
Hunter
It will likely be Mitt Romney. However, he will not get the Evangelical vote thus Hillary will win. We NEED a real Reagan Conservative. See my tagline...
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