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zarq: When McCain Drops Out. The idea is that Senator McCain can't beat Senator Obama, so he'll drop out for health reasons, and the GOP will throw up someone else who the base actually trusts and who is "new" enough to toss the race back up into the air.
I think the theory is pretty cracked, but it amused me, so you get a link to it. Of the list, if I thought this theory was actually in play, I'd pick Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO). She's a firmly accredited culture warrior with a consistent authoritarian record of backing Mr. Bush (including voting to make the Patriot Act permanent, supporting warrentless domestic spying, opposing civilian supervision of spying, and supporting the federalised driver's license/national ID), she's in bed with the right corporations (opposes net neutrality, supports retroactive immunity for telecoms, opposes damn near all alternative energy plans but is all for drilling in wildlife refuges and so on), and, of course, she wants more tax cuts and lots, lots, lots more military spending. Really, she's the perfect candidate for this kind of stunt, if the GOP were to try to pull it. Sure, she's corrupt, but, well, what's that matter?
zarq: When McCain Drops Out. The idea is that Senator McCain can't beat Senator Obama, so he'll drop out for health reasons, and the GOP will throw up someone else who the base actually trusts and who is "new" enough to toss the race back up into the air.I think the theory is pretty cracked, but it amused me, so you get a link to it. Of the list, if I thought this theory was actually in play, I'd pick Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO). She's a firmly accredited culture warrior with a consistent authoritarian record of backing Mr. Bush (including voting to make the Patriot Act permanent, supporting warrentless domestic spying, opposing civilian supervision of spying, and supporting the federalised driver's license/national ID), she's in bed with the right corporations (opposes net neutrality, supports retroactive immunity for telecoms, opposes damn near all alternative energy plans but is all for drilling in wildlife refuges and so on), and, of course, she wants more tax cuts and lots, lots, lots more military spending. Really, she's the perfect candidate for this kind of stunt, if the GOP were to try to pull it. Sure, she's corrupt, but, well, what's that matter?
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Date: 2008-06-16 05:41 pm (UTC)He *can* win, and might very well win, but in many ways he does look like he could be a really big loser in the fall.
Chuck Hagel's the only one on the proposed list who would present a credible challenge to Obama. He's also against the war, so he'd never be acceptable to the GOP base. I really think there's a much better chance he's Obama's VP than his challenger.
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Date: 2008-06-16 06:02 pm (UTC)I don't think it's going to happen either. But it was amusing.
It's kind of odd, given that McCain in his current version is pretty much everything they could ask for in a potential president.
Not at all. Nobody, and I mean nobody, in the activist base really believes he's actually onboard with either the fundamentalist or the imperial agendae. He got the node because he was the one left.
The only way I could see this happening was if they decided the White House could wait for a few years and chuck him overboard for somebody who would energise the base and let them retain as much of Congress as they can manage. Hence: Rep. Musgrave. On top of all the above, you'd get the Obama-loathing Clintonites, and since she's Whitey McWhiterton they can keep their I-can't-believe-it's-not-racist! campaign going against Senator Obama.