Mr. Cohen, are you or are you not a candidate?

He's not running. This article, about a meet and greet in Arizona in which McCain acted as if he has nothing to lose (read, nothing to gain) and didn't go out of his way to woo the audience, does nothing to change that.

OJ's prediction of McCain getting the GOP nomination in '08 will suffer the same fate as his Cheney will resign theory.

I doubt if he will - he is like Howard Dean in some ways. Great ideas but inability to connect with everyone.

McCain will have an even easier time if he's running as the incumbent vp.

I don't think he can beat a real conservative in the primarys

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at August 28, 2005 11:37 PM

He's in the favorite role that W had last time but he actually wins NH--who has enough left to stop him in SC?

I hate to say this, David, but you've made a prediction so foolish as to lend Orrin's powers a bit of credibility. Bad form.

We won't know for two years if McCain is actually running.

All we can say with certainty, now, is that McCain is willing to entertain thoughts of running.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at August 29, 2005 1:55 AM

McCain is probably the most liberal-friendly Republican that has a chance at the presidency; can anyone think of anyone else?

Rudy, Dick Lugar, George Pataki, Colin Powell, Chuck Hagel...

Joe: There's no point in making easy predictions.

OJ - I think Colin Powell will have enough dirt on him from his bunglings with the Bush administration that he won't stand much a chance against a democrat who can actually criticize his opponent. You might be right about Rudy and Pataki, and maybe Hagel if he starts getting more exposure, and doesn't piss off the Republicans too much. I am a liberal who would vote for Hagel or McCain before I vote for a Democrat.

Johnny:

No one in America can criticize Colin Powell, least of all a white Democrat who requires black votes to have a prayer.

OJ - I disagree. Even if the Dem is a white male (because it might be a female, or other minority...), I think don't think it would make that much of a difference. Just my opinion. A lot of people don't even know that Colin Powell is black.
And after lying to the American public (along with Condi, Cheney, and Bush) there are few things Powell can be criticized on; WMD's in particular.

Johnny:

All you do is give him a chance to denounce the faulty intelligence, say he was tricked too, and swear to never go to war again unless we're attacked.

Which would be his policy anyway. There's a reason they call it the Powell Doctrine.

joe:

Yes, never give your opponent a chance to make his case and seem a hero in doing so.

OJ; How do you define "chance"? Hagel, Pataki and Lugar have the proverbial snowballs chance to get a GOP nomination.

Bob:

If you're running you have a chance. If you're not you don't.

If you're running you have a chance. If you're not you don't.

That's exactly what put Clinton I into the White House - simply being in the race, where he was able to benefit from so many lucky breaks that one might believe that God wanted him to win.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at August 29, 2005 4:04 PM

If you're running you have a chance. If you're not you don't.

That's exactly what put Clinton I into the White House - simply being in the race, where he was able to benefit from so many lucky breaks that one might believe that God wanted him to win.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at August 29, 2005 4:04 PM

What, you think the devil's lost his interest in politics?

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