Posted on 07/09/2007 11:03:57 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
LOL! He has all but, quit.
I've got one and two for him - 1) Come out strongly against the author of the McCain Finance Reform bill. 2) Come out strongly against the author of the McCain Amnesty and Open Borders bill.
He ought to follow that advice since he isn’t worth a handful of sh@t at either job right now.
Quitting the only job he’s going to still have after the next election would be a dumb move. He had no chance of winning the GOP nomination.
Heh, heh... maybe that's why it's U.S.News & World Report worthy...
Sounds like a bargaining chip for a Democrat Vice-Presidency to me. Quit the senate, allow a liberal senator to be put in his place and he will be the V-P for Hillary.
This may have been his idea all along since pandering to the liberals has been his main agenda.
McCain should resign from the Senate when Hillary and Obama do.
Excuse me, but what was “so distinguished” about McCain’s naval career? An don’t give me the POW bit.
And Dodd....
And Biden.....
And as Kerry should have been made to do, but our Senate Republican leadership didn't have the stones.
Who coiuld have made him do so? As far as I can remember, only Dole resigned [voluntarily] from office when running for the Presidency. I can't think of another excample off of the top of my head of a Senator resigning or being forced to resign while running for the WH.
Yeah, that’s the ticket! Quit the Senate, John. I’m sure that will turn it around for you. /sarcasm
Too damn late johnny boy
Not long ago a Senator named Kerry ran for president and kept his seat all the while. Darn near won too. This article makes no sense.
I don’t care what he does as long as he goes home and sits on his porch and keeps his mouth shut. That goes for a whole host of others morons in DC.
More to the point, I wish Barry Goldwater had retired in 1980 and we had had another Conservative Republican from then on. But the problem if McCain were to resign now, Butch Napolitano will appoint a rodent hack, and we can’t afford that.
In June of 1967, McCain (by then a lieutenant commander) set out for Vietnam from Norfolk, Virginia aboard the USS Forrestal. The carrier was in the Gulf of Tonkin on July 29, its crew preparing for the second launch of the fifth day of striking enemy targets in North Vietnam, when one of its own bombs detonated on deck. McCain narrowly escaped the resulting conflagration that killed 132 crewmen, with two others missing and presumed dead, and injured 62 more. It was one of the worst military accidents of the war.
A little less than three months later, on October 26, McCain was making his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam when his plane was hit by an antiaircraft missile. Forced to eject, breaking both arms and a leg in the process, he landed in a lake near Hanoi and was captured. He spent the next five and a half years as a prisoner of war (POW) at the sarcastically nicknamed "Hanoi Hilton."
Injured and ill, McCain was denied medical assistance until his captors learned that he was an admiral's son, and even then treatment was rudimentary. His father's position also prompted the North Vietnamese to offer him early release in June of 1968. McCain refused, as the U.S. Military Code of Conduct required that prisoners accept release on a first in/first out basis, and there were more than 100 POWs ahead of him. His refusal resulted in a round of torture that included knocking his teeth out, hanging him by his broken arms, and beating him almost around the clock for a week. Although the abuse never succeeded in convincing McCain to accept early release, he did break down and sign a confession that he was a "black criminal" and an "air pirate." The shame of the confession led McCain to contemplate suicide at the time, and stayed with him years after the fact. "The only thing I can say is that the code says you will resist to the best of your ability," he told Pierce in 1998. "But I failed myself. I failed my fellow prisoners. I failed my family, and I failed my country. Is there anybody else?" Most did not judge McCain as harshly as he judged himself; many, indeed, found his ongoing determination to remain in prison heroic. He was finally released on March 14, 1973, and returned home with a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart, and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Distinguished enough for you?
IOW, if he's in the Senate, he actually has to take a public stand on issues by voting. This way he could hide what he truly is. Easier to lie this way.
Not relevant anyway, this is all BS to get his name out there. No way is he going to quit the Senate for such a long shot. He craves the attention too much.
True. McCain should have been removed in the 04 primary though. If someone like JD Hayworth had run for that seat, he would have won.
Same advice some of these folks gave Bob Dole . . . .
I love this idea.
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