McCain has lost me this past year.
In the past he always seemed to be a straight shooter, but he's just like the rest now, or maybe he always was? There was that other instance of the Obama letter on lobbying reform, and now this.
The only way that he would win me back is to form a moderate 3rd party... I'll be on the look out for the pigs flying over head.
Posted by Dennis at February 27, 2006 12:45 PMMcCains a politician, and a Republican at that. 'Nuff said.
Posted by Judith at February 27, 2006 12:52 PMWhat Judith said, times 10.
Posted by ann at February 27, 2006 01:12 PMSo he voted against the the tax cuts before he voted for them. Dems need to get the flip flop sandals ready for the 2008 convention.
Posted by MarvToler at February 27, 2006 01:17 PMMcCain spends so much time whoring himself on the Sunday monring blab circuit, that it's a miracle he has time to tend to needs of the voters in AZ who elected him.
MEMO TO McCAIN: Membership in the US Senate doesn't include relentless TV time.
Posted by Christopher at February 27, 2006 01:29 PMJohn McCain may be a deservedly decorated military hero but in every other respect there is only one word to describe him: opportunist.
Complete absence of principles, gravitas and "bottom" (using a Francis Urquhart-ism).
McCain's candidacy will be sunk if he is viewed by the mouthbreathing GOP clown-faithful as a Trojan Horse tax-raising risk. Being "tricked" is one of their deepest fears.
But isn't McCain the best of a bad lot from the standpoint of the Left? The Reactionary Right has long viewed him as their Joementum---and of course those two are co-sponsors of the only responsible global warming legislation. His positions have routinely provoked apoplectic rage in the National Authoritarian Reactionary Brownshirts.
McCain is distasteful and has deeply embarrassed himself, wiping a lot of Bush bungholes in the past couple years, but who would be a "better" GOP candidate from the Left's perspective?
Because of this, I don't think he has much of a chance with Rover&Grover's GOP shit-machine.
Posted by euzoius at February 27, 2006 02:26 PMeuzoius, You know "Rover&Grover's GOP shit-machine" wants to set-up a Condi/Hillary showdown...somehow. I think it will be as V/P candidates. It's still a white/male/christian dominated society. If McCain is truly going to run or Rudy for that matter, they will not last 2 years into their presidency so the PNAC, Carlyle Group can get back with the agenda at hand. Which is ripping the American public off.
Posted by bbtb at February 27, 2006 02:35 PMBy 2008 the GOP nomination may not be worth having.
Posted by herbal tee at February 27, 2006 05:31 PMMcCain has lost the respect of too many people for forgiving and embracing Bush.
Besides, there's always that Keating 5 thing, and wife stealing drugs from charity episode.
If a Jewish doctor, and an outspoken billionare were unacceptable as first ladies, how would an ex-drugee make it under the radar?
McCain won't survive the primary, unless things are so hopeless by then, that he would be called upon to fill a another "Dole roll".
Posted by TIKI AL at February 28, 2006 07:39 AM