The best scenario for Hillary is to run as John McCain’s running mate. And for McCain to die.—Dea Henrich

lol.. This is part of a Slate article.

A good example of what the Slate writers are. Far left weirdos.

You do know I just became an Independent,because of the nuts in the Democratic party? I have always been moderate and refuse to bow to the Far left.

As Ronald Reagan said,"I did not leave the party,the party left me." We lost the last two elections because of the idiots at the DNC. They are well on their way to losing another.

At least McCain is not Bush.

Bravo...

Glad to see you "get it".

At least McCain is not Bush.

That is only true in physical appearance...otherwise, McCain is a clone of Bush when it comes to his thinking. Not good! Unless you have no problem with the status quo.

So, you just becamed an Indpendent? Congratulations I think?

Merely labels used to identify voters. When folks step into the voting booth it's hard to say what they do or how they vote.

As for Reagan, after he was independently wealthy he saw fit to bolt the Democratic party like many of the financilly affluent individuals have through the years. Hell, if I had a few million I might even stoop that low. But I don't and I still struggle to stay afloat and, unlike the vinette painted by rightwingers that seniors are predominantly living in luxury, I have no yaught, no summer cottage in the Carribean, no lodge in Vail and no limo. I wince every time I pay nearly $4 for a gallon of milk, nearly as much for a gallon of gasoline because it is I who still taps my wallet instead of living off the taxpayers in vocations such as the president. Most of those clowns have no idea of what anything cost because they never have to pick-up the tab. Ah, yes! "I have a dream, a dream about a day when I can afford the luxury of being a Republican."

Gramps

Loree:

McCain is a clone of Bush when it comes to his thinking.

Patently and provably false, but I suppose it makes a good talking point if you don't want to be bothered with such inconveniences as...oh, I don't know....thinking...honesty...

True. But he sure has minimized the gap between them in recent years. For example, McCain once opposed Bush's upper-class tax cuts, due to his genuine fiscal conservatism. Now he's a fiscal radical, like Bush, who wants to make those cuts permanent. Plus, as the Iraq story has grown in importance, to crowd out other issues, their similarities on that issue make them look more and more similar overall. And even where McCain has serious differences with Bush, like on campaign financing, he has largely quieted himself on those issues, while playing to the hard-core Republican base.

I assume that he's just going with what works. After Bush kicked his ass mercilessly in 2000, he realized that to win the nomination he had to pass himself off as a Bush clone. Hell, he even "pulled a Bush" on religion, by abandoning the faith of his fathers and getting "born again" in a more politically convenient form of charismatic protestantism. My guess is that, once in office, his differences with Bush-style GOP orthodoxy will start to reemerge. But on foreign policy he seems every bit as foolish as Bush was and seems quite eager to start some shit with Iran.

If I'm right about McCain, it'll be similar to GHW Bush. The elder Bush got his ass kicked by Reagan, and so when he ran for office in '88, he disguised himself as a Reagan clone, right up to the point of embracing what he himself had eviscerated as "voodoo economics." He even promised in the starkest of terms that there'd be no new taxes. But once he'd lied his way into office, he reverted to his truer self when it came to fiscal policy, and signed a big tax hike to address the deficit disaster left by Reagan. I wouldn't be surprised to watch McCain follow a similar course.

No doubt he's taken the path of political expediency but I'm hard pressed to find a candidate that can NOT be said about?

Unlike you I believe that even his hard line on Iraq is a pander to the hard right and not a firmly held political conviction.

I'm not particularly fond of McCain, but I don't think he is what so many on the left are painting him as.

The biggest problem I have with selecting a candidate is that I want an amalgam of all 3, since they all bring someting valuable to the table.

the gwot, as being fought today in the ME, namely iraq, but specifically for the GLOBAL effort, will bankrupt our nation and destroy our military, appears McCain believes it is to be fought under the same advisory participants and direction as it is today and since 2000.

McCain's choice of foriegn policy advisors are running the show today under Bush.

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Yes dear, because of course "the left" has no vested interest in making McCain appear in as poor a light as possible...

Lightweight.

who said the left has no vested interest? of course they do, same as "the right" has a vested interest in making Obama appear in as poor a light as possible...

i pointed out how the left has McCain pegged on his foriegn policy, IE: the same policy advisors as bush has now.. if that makes me a lightweight, so be it, i guess?

how about a heavywieght response from you? that is what i would expect from a poster of your caliber.