Bush consultant meets with McCain about presidential bid

I know many of us have opined that there is NO WAY McCain will get the bid from the repub party to be its nominee, but is seems that Bush is putting his guy together with McCain:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/11830621.htm

"WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Mark McKinnon, the Austin political consultant who oversaw the advertising for President Bush in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, has committed to help Sen. John McCain in a second presidential bid.

McKinnon - one of the president's closest friends and confidants and a frequent mountain biking companion - met with the Arizona Republican over lunch this spring in the Senate dining room to discuss his support, said a GOP activist familiar with the meeting.

At this point, McCain, who lost to Bush in a bitter 2000 Republican primary, is in the early but unmistakable stages of laying the groundwork for another campaign. And McKinnon has indicated he would review his options, should Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or the president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, run in 2008.

The White House has sent word that Jeb Bush should be taken at his word, that he will not run. Rice, just four months into her new job, is not expected to seek the presidency, though some top Republicans have suggested she might be considered for vice president."

So the White House is saying that Jeb is not running (and GWB, the petulant child that he is probably would be extremely jealous if Jebbie tried to steal his thunder with a run) and McCain has been kissing up to Bush for 5 years, so maybe we now know why. I think if Bush is behind McCain, McCain wins the nomination. And, unfortunately, the presidency. The only thing that gives me pause is that I think the man is still ill - seriously ill. He just doesn't look well.

His very own happy ending.

No honor. No dignity. No shame....
Typical Republican.

Sad really. I think he's going to try. It doesn't say Bush will support him though. I don't think McCain is Bush's type of person whether friend or someone to support for a presidency run. He demolished him in 2000 (Bush did to McCain) and I just don't see how he can be around the asshole. I wonder what McCain's wife thinks. If I was his wife I wouldn't let him sleep in my bed until he defended me and our daughter. How wrong that was and disgusting. It's the only reason why Bush won that campaign. I also heard that a lot of people didn't even know who the hell Bush was except his last name. Go figure! I think McCain is definitley going to run. The only reason why McCain would have Bush's backing is for the "war on terror" since McCain was a veteran. Watch McCain run and pull a Kerry and run on his veteran record. That way if the democrats fight back at him they'll say we're being mean to a pow veteran and shit.

will never forget his pandering to Bush this past campaign. McCain showed a lack of character to embrace, literally and figuratively, someone who publicly attacked his family. He's not to be trusted.

a lot of the hard-core rightwingers won't forgive him with the compromise on the filibuster.

tracks. Throw "free speech" support to the fringe fundy candidate who will tear him a new one in the primaries. Yes, it is as easy as that.

McCain runs for Pres in 2000.
bush supporters hint McCain has a black baby, effectively killing support for him in the south, and says he might be crazy as a result of his time in the Hanoi Hilton.
McCain is ruined for the 2000 Campaign.
McCain then whores for bush in 2004.
McCain accepts help, from one of the guys who likely (speculating here) destroyed his last shot, to run a new campaign.

And we'll be told not to question McCain's integrity in 2008?

again... ok..?? ..Oh and we wont call your wife a whore again either.. and we wont call you an insane crazed madman Lying Trator, or...well you know what we mean,... we love you , we really really love you, this time...:grouphug:

It's the abused wife syndrome. When the wife keeps going back to the husband and doesn't get away.

Jeb becomes the choice by default?

McCain reminds me of Biden. He's always playing both ends against the middle and his ego keeps him in the limelight.

I could do without the Biden's and McCains.:-( Duplicity and grandstanding are their best attributes it seems. Trustworthiness....NOT!

had to be good for something.

He's done one heck of a job rehabing his image into that war hero, maverick who bucks the party's line to do what's right.

People probably don't remember the Keating Scandal, connections to the Hensley's/Marley crime network, etc.

http://www.usvetdsp.com/story22.htm

http://www.realchange.org/mccain.htm