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Quit the Senate, McCain Is Urged
U.S.News & World Report ^ | July 8, 2007 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 07/09/2007 11:03:57 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative

Before he falls out of the top tier of GOP White House hopefuls, chief advisers to Sen. John McCain are urging him to quit his day job and become a full-time presidential candidate. "Just resign," one says he told McCain. "Show you're all in." Advisers say being a senator is a drag. He doesn't have enough time to campaign and raise money. Worse: The issues he has to vote on, like immigration reform, are killers. If McCain takes that advice, here's the game plan. "Pick three issues conservatives care about and nail them," says one adviser, "and attack [Sen.] Hillary Clinton every day. He needs to break out, and becoming the anti-Hillary will work."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mccain; sellouts; senate; vampirebill
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1 posted on 07/09/2007 11:03:59 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

sorry, McCrazy is a day late and a dollar short...


2 posted on 07/09/2007 11:05:28 AM PDT by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Please take that advice Senator McCain! We out here in AZ would be thrilled!


3 posted on 07/09/2007 11:05:37 AM PDT by kcrackel
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To: West Coast Conservative

Too little, too late. Just ask Bob Dole.


4 posted on 07/09/2007 11:06:49 AM PDT by KingSnorky
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To: West Coast Conservative

Wait a second.

The governor of Arizona is a Dim, right?


5 posted on 07/09/2007 11:06:55 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (take my governor, please)
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To: West Coast Conservative

He’ll never do it. He knows he wouldn’t win and that seat is a platform for 2012.


6 posted on 07/09/2007 11:07:21 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: NeoCaveman

She is as far as I know.


7 posted on 07/09/2007 11:07:48 AM PDT by Let's Roll (As usual, following a shooting spree, libs want to take guns away from those who DIDN'T do it.)
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To: kcrackel

Wouldn’t you get a ‘Rat senator, though? I know it doesn’t make that much difference in this case, but at least McLame votes conservative on a few issues and supports our judicial nominees.

Wouldn’t Napolitano replace him with a hardcore leftist ‘Rat?


8 posted on 07/09/2007 11:09:23 AM PDT by puroresu
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To: theDentist
He’ll never do it. He knows he wouldn’t win and that seat is a platform for 2012.

won't he be like, 103 years old by then?

OK, he'll be 77 but politically, that's the same thing.

9 posted on 07/09/2007 11:09:39 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (take my governor, please)
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To: NeoCaveman

—The governor of Arizona is a Dim, right?—

Yep, and I think she’d have no legal restrictions on appointing another dim. If McCain’s ego is large enough, he’ll say screw the GOP and quit the Senate anyway, to focus on the Prez. campaign (perhaps run as an independent too).


10 posted on 07/09/2007 11:10:08 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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To: Let's Roll

Yes she is a Dem and presumably would appoint another Dem to take the seat. Unless they have some kind of system like the one in Wyoming, thankfully, that required the Demo governor there to appoint a Republican after Sen Thomas passed away.

So while few would shed any tears if McCain were to leave, there probably would be a very liberal Democrat taking his place.


11 posted on 07/09/2007 11:10:51 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: West Coast Conservative

They are probably the same advisers who urged him to give all out support to the amnesty bill.


12 posted on 07/09/2007 11:14:13 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: 3AngelaD
Why am I not surprised that McCain's advisor's are suggesting a plan that would move the US Senate further to the Left?

The only people I know who like McCain are registered Democrats. I kind of suspect that McCain's advisors are planning to vote for Hillary. And maybe he is too.

13 posted on 07/09/2007 11:18:07 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

What - are his advisors Democrats? Quite the Senate and let some liberal Democrat appoint his successor? I’ve got a better idea - QUIT THE RACE!!!


14 posted on 07/09/2007 11:19:02 AM PDT by SConservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
Hey John,

If you quit your Senate seat the RAT gov in AZ will appoint a RAT to fill the rest of your term.

You're pretty RAT-like yourself but I figure better to have a RAT-like RINO than a full fledged RAT.

Seems to me the best solution for the country would be for you to quit your presidential run. Let's see... then it would be Rudy McRomney (with Fred waiting in the wings)

Your friend,

upchuck

PS: If you'd like more free advice (seeing as how you're having all sorts of cash flow problems), just let me know.

15 posted on 07/09/2007 11:20:44 AM PDT by upchuck (If you don't have borders, you won't have a nation ~ Mark Steyn)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Yeah. Quit the senate. Then, while you won’t be a senator, neither will you be the POTUS.

Works for me.


16 posted on 07/09/2007 11:21:24 AM PDT by Clara Lou (Fred Thompson, '08-- imwithfred.com)
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To: West Coast Conservative

It is just fine with me if Johnny goes marching home from his Senate seat, but you’ll not likely ever see a Democrat do such a thing.

I think that they should all be limited to 1 term anyhow.


17 posted on 07/09/2007 11:22:20 AM PDT by Radix (The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race)
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To: lovecraft

McCain is “Amnesty Fiasco” short. His position on the Amnesty fiasco makes him toast. IMO, he should start looking for his next private sector job.


18 posted on 07/09/2007 11:24:48 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: West Coast Conservative

That would be foolish


19 posted on 07/09/2007 11:24:54 AM PDT by bnelson44 (http://www.appealforcourage.org)
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To: TNCMAXQ

I think it would be a good thing if he resigned. Sure Napolitano would appoint a dem, but that would put the seat up in 2008. We would have one less rino and a chance of getting a conservative pro border senator.


20 posted on 07/09/2007 11:26:12 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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