Why can't the stupid party find younger people?

Torch was passed to the boomers, for good or bad.

Reminds me of Dole.

Maverick cannot carry off Ronnie's youthful line against Mondale well.

sandy:

Ask a couple folks how old McCain is--they'll guess ten years too young.

Well I voted for him in the primary and after reading this I'm beginning to think he just may have his head screwed on tight for 2008.

He wins NH in a walkover.

People think of Vietnam as a baby boomer war, so that's how old they'll think McCain is...

b, Do you think that is good or bad? There are still a lot of Boomer voters, many of whom supported the Vietnam war, especially, (as Lou might say) since there is no more draft. I think the probable intergenerational war is not yet here, and perhaps may not occur. Not a big McCain fan, but where is the alternative? I wouldn't mind seeing one.

McCain is sound on the issues that matter, yet has been sold as the "great 'centrist' hope," the "non-Bush."

Because of this image, McCain can hold a lot of the "time-for-a-change" vote.

If someone like McCain is coming across as a "centrist," we have been successful beyond our wildest hopes and dreams in moving the center.

McCain's health scares me. VP?

Jeb

Works for me.

mc cain plus jeb has a terrific appeal, across a wide swath of voters. mc cain's what the hell kind of attitude might be right for the next couple of years. you can bet kim il jung won't pull any shit with mc cain's finger on the kill switch.

Cagey move by McCain. He wouldn't have done well in the South, and needs to shore up conservative support to get the nomination after his CFR, Gang of 14, and 6 years of sniping at the administration. It's a really smart two-fer. He's managed to suck a lot of the people here in.

Posted by: jd watson at March 11, 2006 12:41 AM

At the risk of being boring, I will again state that John McCain is the most dangerous man on the face of the earth.

Why?

Because he could be flattered and financed into forming a third party taking votes away from the Republican candidate and putting a Democrat, probably Hillary Clinton, in the White House.

No, he can't. In the first place he could have done the same in '00 and '04 and didn't. Second he's going to win the '08 nomination and election too easily to bother. He's seen how useless Jim Jeffords is without a party.

I'll meet you half way.

I hope you're right that he won't run on a third party, and you're wrong that he'll get the nomination.

Who was the last Republican at the top of the totem pole not to get it? Taft in '52?

Bush in '80.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at March 11, 2006 3:52 PM

Reagan had just come within a wink of knocking off a sitting president--he was next in line. Bush got a blip out of IA and his head handed to him in NH.

Harold Stassen!