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November 11, 2006

McCain Launches 2008 Bid

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain intends to take the first formal step toward a White House run next week by launching a presidential exploratory committee, GOP officials say.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting a public statement from the four-term Arizona senator, who is considered the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

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.

This is about as surprising as the sun coming up in the morning - but the fact that President Bush still have more than two years left in his term shows just how absurd our campaigns have become - one follows another without respite.

I think our ultimate cure for this is to repeal the term limitation on the Presidency - as long as no one ever knows for certain if a particular President will run again, it might dampen the enthusiasm for finding his replacement earlier and earlier.

Posted by Mark Noonan on November 11, 2006 02:03 AM

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We have to remember, though, one of the bigger reasons people are announcing early is because Dick Cheney isn't planning to run. If people thought the VP would make a run (or were thinking about it), people would be a lot more patient.

Posted by: Joseph T. McCarthy at November 11, 2006 02:58 AM

Good luck to you Sen. McCain. You've never been a governor, and you have a voting record that defend.

Sorry his is one vote you wont be getting.

Posted by: Matt at November 11, 2006 09:17 AM

I will vote for John McCain when the sun rises in the west. When Hillary becomes a Republican. When they have to go sprinkle rock salt WHERE HELL FROZE OVER!

Posted by: Mike at November 11, 2006 01:43 PM

McCain will turn off the majority of the conservative Republican base. He went wobbly along time ago.

Posted by: Freedom1 at November 11, 2006 06:07 PM

At this rate I expect the horrible political campaign ads to resume on TV during the Thanksgiving day parade. And it's a shame, I've been enjoying the last week of pharmaceutical commercials.

Posted by: Zeb Palmer at November 11, 2006 07:51 PM

LoL! Zeb.
:)

Posted by: Freedom1 at November 12, 2006 01:29 AM

I agree about term limits on the Presidency. Term limits in general are anti-democratic; trust the electorate to make its own decisions.

Posted by: NovaNardis at November 12, 2006 01:39 AM

If the GOP supports McPain, I'm afraid that will be the final straw for me. I'm a conservative first, Republican second. I'll have to seek out a third party that follows conservatism, Reagan conservatism, to belong to and support.

Viewing some articles of the 2000 S.C. campaign, it is easy to see where the current bout of BDS liberals have started. Since then, he has worked to undermine the President often and other times was barely lukewarm in support. When he labeled the Swiftvets as "dishonest and dishonorable" because they stood against his good buddy, John 'F'in Kerry (who I have heard served in Viet Nam) before even looking into what they were saying, but didn't condemn Liberal 527 groups, he crossed a line with me he can never regain from.

Moderate antics as his cost the election, we don't need him screwing us again in '08.

Posted by: Lew Waters at November 12, 2006 03:04 AM

I have been a Republican for more years than I want to count. There is NO WAY I will ever vote for John McCain for anything, much less President of the United States. If it came down to a choice betweeen John McCain or Hillary Clinton, I would just not vote for President that election.

Posted by: Cyndi at November 12, 2006 12:17 PM