Will McCain run for president in 2008?

[elshiva]

Just wondering since Cheney keeps saying he won't run in '08. (Should we believe that? How can we believe anything he says?)
Theories running among friends that McCain supported Dubya to secure '08 nomination. Is this true?

[Placebo]

1. I doubt he will...

He'll be old by then, and he's not loved by large portions of the conservative base.

[elshiva]

5. OK, good point. Freepers hate him.

But, can we believe that Cheney won't run? Can we have that in writing with his other hand on the Bible? I'm tired of his crap.

[applegrove]

2. I think he supported Dubya to secure Rove.

Must be why Rove is currently running around 'rebranding' himself these days.

[independentchristian]

3. He's a Moonie

I won't be supporting him

[elshiva]

4. I'd never support a Republican for president.

Just would like to know more about who might run for the repubs. I don't like McCain. Really, I'd rather he didn't run.

"I'm just like Luke Skywalker trying to get out of the DeathStar."--John McCain, 2000 campaign. This guy is creepy.

[Eric J in MN]

10. What do you mean by that? nt

nt

[AlCzervik]

13. oh please tell me you aren't a Larouche supporter

because thats exactly what they say. McCain may be a shmaeful sellout but he's not a moonie.

[saltpoint]

6. Cheney is a high-IQ reptile-brained powermonger --

-- who is by parts smart, lucky, rich, shrewd, sinister, and dishonest. He'd be outflanked for the nomination, losing in Iowa to McCain and Hagel, in New Hampshire to McCain, and in South Carolina to Frist.

He knows he'd be slaughtered in the GOP primaries and is content to sit back, smirk his fat ass off, and count his money into deep old age.

[elshiva]

9. Good point.

[Liberal Gramma]

7. If he doesn't, then he sold his integrity cheap

[elshiva]

11. Dang angry with McCain and I can't stand Repubs, but

I still think McCain should have got the Repuke nomination in 2000. The fact that that chose the candidate with the lowest IQ tell us something about Repubs...

[elshiva]

12. Don't like McCain and hate Repukes, but

I still think McCain should have got the Repuke nomination in 2000. The fact that that chose the candidate with the lowest IQ tell us something about Repubs...

[Eric J in MN]

8. Yes. Why else would he have been so whore-like in 2004? nt

nt

[ragin_acadian]

14. stir it up, get it out, start slingin'

McCain was part of the Keating five in putting pressure on Edwin Gray, chief S&L regulator, to not investigate Charles Keating's Lincoln Saving's and Loan until 1989 when it was discovered that the 28 branches of Lincoln S&L were worth negative 948 million dollars. after the US and California spent nearly 2 billion dollars bailing out the loans for Keating's S&L(and criminal and civil charges filed against Keating), McCain and four others went before the Senate Ethics committee for pressuring Gray to ignore Keating's S&L in exchange for donations to campaign treasuries and political committees.

you might remember Keating as the fallwell-supporting character portrayed by James Cromwell in the people vs. larry flynt.

let's get this information out to as many people as we can, as well as what happened to newt's first two wives before those two pieces of excrement can get to the republican primaries.

[elshiva]

18. Old S&L crapola, but I didn't know McCain was involved.

Oh, I hope to God Newt won't run. He is sooo evil.

[ragin_acadian]

20. well, i think it would set the case that mccain is scummy too

all they need to do about newt is bring up that info that he left his first wife because she had cancer, got an anullment from the catholic church, then remarried and left his second wife because she had M.S. gingrich's defective disposable wives wouldn't exactly sit well with the moral values and fundie voters, maybe we can get them to agree with us that the newt is evil.

you're probably right, the mccain/keating/S&L thing wouldn't make headlines in the news because no one remembers or cares about scandals in the 80's & 90's.

[elshiva]

25. Newt is absolute scum for kicking his wives when

they were down. He is also a sexist homophobe hater. Scary to think this man might run for president.

[ragin_acadian]

27. that is the nature of republicans:

the world and it's inhabitants are your soccer field when you're on top.

i thought it was damn near justice when ohio secured the shrub, then lost 300,000 jobs the third week of november, they didn't realize that the corporate masters bankrolling bush would kick them in the stomach as soon as they voted their precious corporate tool back in.

i probably shouldn't think like that, but sometimes people have to get pinched before they wake up.

[Califooyah Operative]

15. I think so.

I think its up to the straight republican hacks to stop him, frist, bush, etc.

[Jamastiene]

16. No

He'd never win in the confederate states and they plan on continuing the Bush dynasty (or should I say die nasty because they just won't fucking go away) with Jeb Bush. It's beginning to look like a horror movie. I hope we don't end up with King George Herbert Walker Adolph Jeb Prescott Bush the IV'th one day.

[LdyGuique]

17. McCain wll run

Cheney won't run -- he has a very bad heart (it's been stated repreatedly that he won't run)

I believe that McCain and Jebbie will be running

(Remember Jeb signed the PNAC statement)
I think Buchanan will try another run -- but probably as an independent

The best way to watch for possible wannabes is the amount of camera newsbite time that they garner over each and every little issue -- building public recognition

[zulchzulu]

19. McCain will be very ill by 2008

He's been going through cancer treatment recently and I bet he won't run for health reasons.

[BlueManDude]

21. Yes and he's already won the Russert-Imus primary

those two hacks have been shilling for him for years. Throw Mike Barnicle in there too.

[KissMeKate]

22. if he does I hope we dont get any democratic crossover.

eom

[JHBowden]

23. If he does, he is toast in the primary like Guiliani

The Republicans will take the risk and nominate a hard conservative like Owens or Ehrlich.

[deadparrot]

24. He'll be well into his 70s by that time, right?

Plus, he's sick. And he's far too moderate for the neoconservative wing of the party.

[Igel]

26. I hope not. I think so. It won't matter. n/t

[Yupster]

28. I think he will run if

his health will allow it.

I think once you get bitten by the presidential ambition bug, it's hard to give it up.

[Czolgosz]

29. I really think it's down to Frist and Jeb nm