Why John McCain will never win the Republican presidential nomination

March 17, 2007

I was skeptical about John McCain’s chances in the GOP primaries before, but now I’m convinced — he’s going to lose. What convinced me was a chat McCain had with reporters yesterday aboard his campaign bus, which eventually turned to the distribution of taxpayer-subsidized condoms in Africa to fight the transmission of HIV. What followed, the NYT’s Adam Nagourney explained, “was a long series of awkward pauses, glances up to the ceiling and the image of one of Mr. McCain’s aides, standing off to the back, urgently motioning his press secretary to come to Mr. McCain’s side.”

Q: “What about grants for sex education in the United States? Should they include instructions about using contraceptives? Or should it be Bush’s policy, which is just abstinence?”

Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “Ahhh. I think I support the president’s policy.”

Q: “So no contraception, no counseling on contraception. Just abstinence. Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?”

Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “You’ve stumped me.”

Q: “I mean, I think you’d probably agree it probably does help stop it?”

Mr. McCain: (Laughs) “Are we on the Straight Talk express? I’m not informed enough on it. Let me find out. You know, I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. [Speaking to Press Secretary Brian Jones], would you find out what my position is on contraception — I’m sure I’m opposed to government spending on it, I’m sure I support the president’s policies on it.”

Q: “But you would agree that condoms do stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Would you say: ‘No, we’re not going to distribute them,’ knowing that?”

Mr. McCain: (Twelve-second pause) “Get me [Sen. Tom Coburn’s] thing, ask [senior adviser John Weaver] to get me Coburn’s paper that he just gave me in the last couple of days. I’ve never gotten into these issues before.”

As Jonathan Chait noted, “A twelve second pause is an incredibly long time in conversation.”

It is, indeed. It’s also indicative of a candidate who might as well drop out now, because it’s only going to get worse.

First, on the substance, McCain comes across as a bumbling fool. He doesn’t know if he believes condoms are effective in preventing the spread of HIV? He’s been a member of Congress for 24 years, has participated in thousands of policy hearings, and has voted on hundreds of bills relating to public health. Now that he’s running for president, McCain literally has no idea what he thinks about something as simple as condoms and HIV? Please.

I was particularly fond of the “I have to find out what my position was” remark. Someone can ask him an extremely simple question, but before he answers it, McCain wants to check to make sure he believes what he thinks he believes. “Would you find out what my position is on contraception?” Here’s a wacky idea, senator, why don’t you just tell us what you actually think?

Which leads us to the second problem — he doesn’t know what he’s supposed to think anymore. McCain is so embarrassingly desperate, he’s utterly lost when it comes to basic questions like these. It’s almost certainly what he was doing with those 12 seconds of silence, thinking over what James Dobson might do if he acknowledged that condoms can play a role in stopping the spread of HIV, and what the media might do if they find a dozen examples of him supporting broader public access to publicly-financed contraception.

So the poor, sad man says nothing. McCain can’t tell the truth, he can’t share his opinions, and he can’t remember what he thought before he sold out. It’s so genuinely pathetic, I almost feel sorry for the guy.

And why is this evidence that McCain is going to lose? Because he’s going to have to deal with a year of these questions, and he has no idea how to answer them.

McCain’s lost his mojo. That’s what happens when you embrace the devil.

  • Yeah, “Would you find out what my position is on contraception?” goes right up there with “What’s wrong with sucking up to everyone?” in the McQuote pantheon. Keep straight talkin’, Johnny boy…

  • The fact that it was reported is pretty telling, too.

    In 2000, reporters loved McCain, and that little anecdote would have never seen the light of day.

    His key constituency seems to be leaving him.

  • Once you start lying….

    Or as Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) expressed it in Marmion, “Oh, the tangled webs we weave / When we practice to deceive.”

  • The MSM seems to be keen to apply to McCain’s candidacy Bill Cosby’s “Fatherhood” line:

    I brought you into this world, and I can take you back out!”

  • While it’s true that McCain has sold out so many of his positions to curry favor for the primaries, I think this is clearly a sign of a medical problem. McCain is not a young man and he’s not on the most restful schedule.

    I’m think that, if I were talking to my neighbor in his 70s, and he suddenly couldn’t remember something that was common knowledge, and responded with long pauses, I’d start to wonder about Alzheimers, or some problem with his medications. If he then said something like “I’m sure I agree with whatever X said”, or that he’d need to go look up something, I’d think he was trying to cover memory loss, not that he was confused by his own flim-flam game.

    Then I’d start thinking about whether his recent behavior had been erratic, or out of character.

    Then I’d start thinking about getting him some help.

  • Why aren’t all Republican candidates asked this question? It would stump all of them. In fact, I think this is a perfect wedge question. They can either look like complete fools and try to gain the solid support of Dobson’s relatively small voter-block. Or they can say the obvious truth and risk offending Dobson forever, while doing little to gain headway with the general populace. I don’t think any GOP candidate will come out looking good on that one. These are the real questions reporters should be asking.

  • “You know, I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. [Speaking to Press Secretary Brian Jones], would you find out what my position is on contraception — I’m sure I’m opposed to government spending on it, I’m sure I support the president’s policies on it.”

    Words fail me. McCain is turning into Homer Simpson before our very eyes. Homer Simpson without the charm, that is.

  • The magic of political puppetry is completely lost when everyone can see the strings. When McCain feebly asks to have his puppetmasters feed him the next line you know the jig is up. John should quit before he goes from being an embarassment to a laughingstock.

  • If base voters loved him, I think he could survive this? Hell, if base voters loved him, he could survive unnatural sexual congress with a goat on live television (even if it was a male goat). But, as Nagourney noted yesterday in the Times, the base hates him on not initially supporting the tax cuts and on immigration, and Nagourney failed to add that they hate him for daring ever to say a discouraging word about the war (they don’t see him as its biggest cheerleader — just the opposite), and for campaign finance reform. Oh, and he does base-alienating things like criticizing St. Rummy. So you’re right — he absolutely will not win this nomination.

  • Excellent post. I fully agree. Imagine what a field day Republicans would have had if John Kerry (or any other major democrat) had said something like “Would you find out what my position is on contraception?” Good lord, we’d never stop hearing about it.

  • I’m with biggerbox, above. This sounds to me like McCain’s having trouble processing and retrieving information, due to age, exhaustion, medication issues, or some combination of these (or other factors). I too feel sorry for him, though I’m also glad that he seems less and less likely to become President.

  • McCain’s turning into a tired old man in the media spotlight. Too bad it had to happen this way – very little dignity left for the old soldier.

  • I’d agree with the idea that McCain can’t possibly be the 2008 nominee, except that none of his rivals could possibly be the nominee either, and one of them must end up being the nominee.

    To the extent that there’s a Republican A-list anymore, no one on it would want to lead the train wreck that 2008 is going to be for the GOP. So we get these implausible wannabes like McCain or Rudy or Mitt.

  • But didn’t I hear that when reporters first tried to get a statement from Obama about whether homosexuality is immoral, he just ignored thet question repeatedly?

    Yet there’s no sign that’s going to stop Obama.

  • “McCain can’t tell the truth, he can’t share his opinions, and he can’t remember what he thought before he sold out.” – Mr. CB

    The Flatline Express.

  • Why feel sorry for him?
    He has always been a right wing ASSHOLE. I knew McCain was a wash-up loser right wing piece of shit years ago. Step down you slob, you slob-you old bag o bones geezer nothing. While your at it, take your god damn conservative corpro fascist senators like Warner,Brownback,Kyl,Sessions,Coburn down to hell with you.
    McCain is worse than pathetic. He’s morphed into this slob for the right always taking it in the ass for them to get the nomination.

  • I think JimBob’s got it right. McCain isnt the man he was 8 years ago, but the Republicans really haven’t got a solid alternative running yet. It’s hard to imagine a primay electorate rejecting McCain for being too soft on core conservative issues turning instead to Giuliani or Romney instead.

    There’s a wide opening on the right, but I don’t see Brownback or Tancredo or Hunter quite winning over the corporate imprint that a Republican candidate needs, either. Jeb’s just about the only one with the mojo right now and I just can’t see him running. McCain, like Dole before him, will be getting this nomination by default.

    The party of Reagan doesn’t worry too much about a guy stumbling through the facts.

  • If McCain and his advisers had had the sense to move to more moderate positions, he might have had a chance to charm more voters from the Democratic fringes, disenchanted Repugs, and independent blocs. As it is, biggerbox’s (#8) observations define a tired old man who is not even an effective politician anymore.

  • McCain knows what he thinks about condoms, but can’t admit it in public. He believes that everyone who has sex outside male-female marriage DESERVES to get AIDS and die. The Base believes this too, but won’t admit it.

  • The Republican convention will melt down, with true believer wingnuts rejecting Rudy and pragmatists unable to put McCain over the top. Jebbie will ride to the rescue like a white knight and not only will he get the nomination, he’ll win the election (courtesy of KKKarl’s lock on Diebold voting machines). The Democrats will wring their hands and moan and then do nothing. We get the government we deserve.

  • I’m dreaming of an election where one-third of the Republican base can’t get excited over their candidate, so they stay home in droves, and another one-third is so discouraged and embarrassed at the mess they made by picking Bush and blindly supporting him all these years that they give up politics for a decade or two.

  • There’s no indication that Jeb will run, at least not in 2008. McCain is generally despised by the base; I doubt Giuliani will fare much better (a pro-choice Republican as their nominee?). The religious right isn’t going to like Romney.

    The realistic candidates currently have no pulse in the polls: Hagel, Brownback, Huckabee. My money’s on Huckabee.

  • I disagree with mybrainworks … Unlike McCain really has gone senile, he knows what he thinks about abstinence-only programs, and privately knows they are “faith-based” nonsense. But he has sold out whatever principles he had to win back the GOP primary base that he no longer knows what to say when asked a wedge-issue question.

  • My money is on Fred Thompson, but whoever is the nominee, it WILL be the Convention that picks him, because no one is going to have anything like a majority coming in. (The same thing might happen with the Democrats too.)

  • I’m with Biggerbox on this.

    McCain’s recent behavior has been erratic. Look at the Letterman announcement, which came as a huge surprise to his campaign workers and volunteers.

    The long pauses and lack of recall from McCain look an awful lot like the first stage of Alzheimer’s or senility.

  • Till Eulenspiegel–2 out of 3. No way Hagel comes anywhere close with his Iraq opposition–base hates that.
    I’m with you on Huckabee & Brownback. But for the life of me, I don’t understand why either one hasn’t caught on more. They should be leading the polls. I’m starting to wonder… could they actually nominate Giuliani? He’s authoritarian enough for them to hold their noses… right? (Which is worrisome, b/c Giuliani is a strong candidate.)

  • McCain has no right to even consider the WH. He has no issue that he stand on – he is a microwave politician – he cooks up things fast for quick consumption.

    He doesn’t stand for anyone or anything but John McCain. Maybe now people will start believing what the POW/MIA Families have been saying about McCain for years. He sold out those men who were unaccounted for just like Kerry did. The 1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs was a farce.

    For more go here: http://www.nationalalliance.org/vietnam/19cases.htm
    This evidence was buried and never made it to the hearing floor OR the final report of the Committee.

  • Ah, the straight talk sputters on… how hard it must be to balance the unfulfilled mission of one in a million gametes where the rubber hits the load against the slow, painful, debilitating death of millions of Africans. Every sperm is sacred.

    “If you oppose the distribution of condoms, something is more important to you than saving lives.”
    -Melinda Gates

  • “I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was.” “What’s wrong with sucking up to everybody?” etc

    If it had been a Dem, I’d have thought it was a self-deprecating joke. But since Repubs are constitutionally incapable of such humorous self-assessment… It sounds as if he’s not serious; not trying very hard to run. But then, why run at all?

    I’m with those who think something’s seriously wrong with McCain’s mental health. It’s not old age — my husband’s *much* older than McC and *nowhere near* as doddering. It’s as if McC’s fuse box had burnt out and he’s groping in the dark.

  • Keep in mind that this is a man wholly uninterested in domestic issues.

    Remember that during his last presidential campaign, he had to be told the difference between Medicare and Medicaid–he actually didn’t know, after all his years in the Senate.

    (As for condoms’ preventing STDs, however, didn’t they teach him that in the Navy?)

  • When JMac first showed up on Hardball’s college tour program a few months ago I couldn’t help but notice all of the wadling he does when asked an uncomfortable question. On Hardball it was a question about gay marriage. He was quick to shoot gay marriage down and quick to waddle while his eyes shifted as if to say, “I don’t believe what I am saying but I am so desperate to be president I BETTER believe it. There’s waffling and there’s waddling. He does both too well. I agree with the “sad” comment. The removal of this man’s manliness is another case of the Bush administration abusing the military.

  • McCain is toast. He isn’t telegenic enought (Romney is), can’t get the imprimateur of corporate America (Romney will), nor the support of the wingnuts (Romney might). Line them all up in front of a TV camera and you can pick the winner right away based on their looks. Without knowing very much about him in 1999, when I saw our boy-king I knew he was more than viable no matter how intellectually challenged he was, and we now know him to be. I know my analysis is shallow, but so is the country.

  • I’m with Prup on this one. I see the scenario like this:

    Sometime right after the attack on Iran, Cheney retires for health reasons and Fred Thompson is named to replace him, instantly being on the inside track for the nomination. He will work with Bush’s political operatives to strategically distance himself from Bush/Cheney without embarasing the Pres or appearing disloyal – just a powerful, telegenic, charismatic kind of guy.

    Don’t know how he’d handle the wedge issues though, but his GOP track record and bona fides are good. He would be much more formidable than anyone now running and the party bosses know it.

  • McCain’s only chance of survival is to find his mojo and go to full attack mode right at the “strength” of the Repub party i.e. he has to figuratively kick the Bush WH in the nuts, and keep kicking them in the back as they go down. He has to blow the Bush Repub party apart and pick up the pieces. If he cannot do that – and he cannot because he lost his way when he inserted his head in Bush’s a$$- he is toast.

  • Agree with your analysis on McCain’s image troubles. Clinton, too, is always thinking cautiously out loud on the stump.

  • My money is on Fred Thompson, but whoever is the nominee, it WILL be the Convention that picks him, because no one is going to have anything like a majority coming in. (The same thing might happen with the Democrats too.)

    Comment by Prup
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    I don’t think so.Not after his bizarre rant about Ghandi-Democratic party comparisons.

  • I imagine those twelve seconds were long enough for McCain to see his whole political career flashing before his eyes — and then he heard James Dobson’s voice warning him not to walk into the light.

  • The problem with this “gotcha” approach to journalism is that it reduces the field to lessor candidates who are just better at avoiding politically incorrect landmines.

    Snake oil salesmen are quick-thinking, slick talkers, but they’re not my target demographic for Presidential candidates. This kind of side-issue haranguing draws attention away from bigger issues, weeds out the best people and elevates petty game players who are middle-management caliber at best.

    After you all finish patting yourselves on the back for being so pseudo-intellectual, how about you stop and think about what you’re really doing for a change? The fact is, we Americans usually get exactly what we asked for in our Presidents, and unfortunately, its exactly what we deserve.

  • The reason McCain is not electable is because he can’t even comb his hair by himself and needs help. He is old, stale and his body is beat up from fighting as a youth and being tortured in Vietnam. When women hear how he left his first wife for his current politically connected and wealthy and much younger one, they will view him as a golddigger.

  • When I saw Mccain on Tonight show about 2-3 years ago or something the way he was interviewed and answered the questions and had the whole audience cheering for him I said to myself “this guy is going to win in 2008”.

    But believe me this year in the debates he has turned into a totally different media personality and comes off like a General Patton no mercy type of person who will be more ruthless in Iraq then even Bush allowed.

    If people would only register and get up on election day they could change the country, VOTE RON PAUL. It is out last chance to change the world from heading towards the Marxist police state that all these global powers want to unite into.

    WAKE UP AND ACT, thinking, hoping or wishing alone won’t stop this train wreak. You must ACT – VOTE RON PAUL.

  • Why John Mc Cain will never win the Presidency in 2009 C.E.
    H e is like Barry Goldwater, he spoke the truth, but the peoples do not want the truth. So he will lose the Presidency also.

  • Why John Mc Cain will never win the Presidency in 2009 C.E.
    He is like Barry Goldwater, he spoke the truth, but the peoples do not want the truth. So he will lose the Presidency also.

  • You people disgust me!! Stop your whining, grab your nuts in one hand ( obviously two won’t be needed ) and suck it up!! MC CAIN IS AN ASSKICKER!! AND ALL THE OTHERS ARE PALE SHADOWS OF THIS MAN!! WHO THE FUCK IS ROMNEY?? ARE YOU GONNA LET SOMEBODY BUY YOUR VOTE? I WOULDN’T VOTE FOR REAGAN IF HE TRIED TO BUY ME, AND REAGAN WOULDN’T VOTE FOR HIM EITHER. HELL, HE EATS WAFFLES WITH JOHN KERRY EVERY SUNDAY.Talk about not knowing what he thinks, Romney always answers the hard questions with, ” I’d get the best minds together and see what they think and form an investigative comm….blah blah”. You beat your chest for a savior and yet have no faith. You SAY you want someone to break Washington and the democrats, and pork barrels, and JUST DO SOMETHING. A man of conviction who is beholden to neither side! SEnators don’t like him? good, deal with him. What do you need? You linguini-spined wannabes would throw Jesus overboard in NH because he wasn’t tough enough on the second amendment and capital punishment. They fear McCain, that’s not spin. He’ll tear their center out like a melon baller. WEIGH ALL THE CANDIDATES AND MC CAIN IS THE LIFELONG REPUBLICAN AND MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN ANY!! PROVE ME WRONG. DO YOU WANNA WIN?? DO YOU WANNA ??

  • Oops, you were wrong. Romney is a flip flopping loser who looks like a God damned car salesman or game show host. Huckabee is a damned right wing looney tune who wants the Constitution to basically be the Bible. I’m sorry, but the Constitution was not meant to be a religious document asshole. Okay, so McCain did not want to answer your fucking question. Who gives a shit. He is more genuine than Romney and less of a right wing loony tune than Huckabee. Republicans like Rush Limbaugh who embraced Romney can all eat shit. They want the Republican party to be a party of right wing extremism. McCain will be able to get more votes because of his more moderate conservatism. If the Republicans follow someone like Romney they will further marginalize their party to only a few ultra rich business people and evangelicals. McCain can broaden the Republican base which has been shrinking for quite some time. Furthermore, he actually could beat Clinton or Obama unlike Romney or Huckabee. Fuck any Republican who supported Huckabee and Romney for being so ignorant and foolish.

  • BITE ME. good posting. Nice to see there are actual Republicans on this site ( not those subsets you mentioned ). We need to restore the normalcy to the party and steal the center back. If we do, maybe we can marginalize both extremes of the spectrum (left and right) and quit the wrangling of special interest politics. My wife is a Dem and she is sick of them, she says she’ll vote for McCain, maybe. That is BIG (trust me). she won’t vote for Barry Obama (” who the hell is he?”, “change?, what change?”), she respects Billary (yes, the package), BUT SHE DEFERS TO MCCAIN as a man of incredible character and integrity. She bad mouths Reps all the time, except McCain. HE CAN MAKE HER CRY. THAT IS KEY TO A DEMS VOTE. We know they are emotional voters. His story is Greek in it’s epic rises and falls. He knows life at both ends. and has stayed true. .

  • My website tells you exactly why I will never vote for John McCain. It is the same reason I will never vote for Barrack Obama or Hillary Clinton; they are Liberals and Liberals do NOT have the best in mind for this country. Visit http://www.whyiwillnevervoteforjohnmccain.com and find out exactly why I dislike all Presidential candidates this year. Can we extend George W Bushes term another four years?

  • THIS WEB PAGE IS FOR HILLARY SUPPORTERS WITH SOUR GRAPES.

    JOHN McCAIN THE 44th AND NEX PRESIDENT OF THE USA…and you Hillary supporters can go eat crow!

  • This is just my opinion so nothing that I say is based in any real fact that I know of but this is how I think the 2008 election for the presidency will play out.

    Neither Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama has enough delegates to clinch the democratic nomination – no surprises here.

    Sen. Clinton will lose the nomination to Sen. Obama; not because of any racial issue, she’s simply not electable this time around and she knows it. So why is she staying in the race? Because she needs to do as much damage as possible to Sen. Obama to insure that he’s not elected president.

    If Sen. Obama wins the presidency, Sen. Clinton won‘t have another shot at it because Obama automatically becomes the democratic nominee in 2012. Sen. Clinton would have to wait until 2016 to have another shot at the presidency and at that point she’s too old to be a viable candidate.

    When Sen. Obama officially becomes the democratic candidate for president, Sen. Clinton will be the most unsupportive supporter that Sen. Obama will have. She’ll want her supporters to either stay home on election night, vote for an independent candidate or better yet – vote for Sen. McCain.

    Sen. Clinton will not be Sen. Obama’s running mate because: 1) He doesn’t need her and 2) It doesn’t get her any closer to the presidency – unless of course he dies or becomes incapacitated while in office.

    On election night Sen. Obama has an even bigger hurdle to overcome. When a lot of democratic and independent voters that are not black walk into the voting booth, they’re going to have a rude awakening. They’ll have to ask themselves if it’s safer to vote for a well respected white man that has those fatherly and grandfatherly qualities about him, who was an Officer in the United States Navy and a military hero in the Vietnam War, who was elected to two terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and then elected to four terms as a United States Senator – or is it safer to vote for a young well educated black man that’s still a Junior U.S. Senator with no military service.

    I’m betting that Sen. McCain wins by a large margin on election night.

  • I am sure this was taken out of context or he was distracted. John McCain is an eloquent and experience public official who stands for the traditions and ethics this country was founded on. He offers voters a single chance to redeem themselves, John McCain spares George Bush much criticism because he is kind and loyal to his party, he has however openly discussed the many failures of the Bush presidency and he believes he can do a better job…
    He is no Bush regurgitation,
    And he can and WILL win.

  • Hey guys, I am concerned, that neither of our candidates will do the right job. Nor do I believe it was President Bush who led us to where we are today; it was us who took the steps to get to this spot. We are so easily influenced by what we hear, read and see for the “now” and forget what we feel in our hearts and spiritual minds. Have you forgotten what you agreed with yourself? Have you forgotten how loyal we were when we agreed to invade Iraq? The majority of us voted for President Bush for the last 8 years and now we hide?

    Finger pointing or belittling Americans is not the answer, what made us great and what will make us even greater is the unity of one. So please, it’s too easy to find fault in Mccain or Obama, it’s harder to find fault in yourself and ourself. One simple change in the right direction; a smile to your colored neighbour, a ‘hello’ to the illegal mexican that can not respond back in english, a wave at the poor bus driver that drives our thankless children to school – will go a long way!!

    Who wins or who doesn’t win is not the question, the issue is Americans have become afraid and are reacting to situations that are immediately reported and we have lost sight of what we can do to help win this race. History will repeat if we are not careful and that historical path that we are taking is not placing us back ahead of other communities around the world. Does it really matter if we lose our Super-power status? Weapons are not what makes power, it’s the economy and the health (both physical and mental) of our country. The unity of one creates acceptance and the unity of belonging in a family is what will make our bond unbreakable. Accept and embrace all your American’s now and let the world see this.

    We are a country of achievers united with a common goal of family and stability. Let’s start behaving as such!

  • John McCain will win.

    He’ll be up against that unelectable empty-suit: Mr Obama.

  • Sen. McCain will absolutely destroy BHO once it is decided and it seems it has. The Wizard of Uhhs is the empty suit Captain Reality says he is. You can’t campaign on color and bumper sticker slogans.

    The lunacy of voting for a write in has no logic behind it whatsoever. McCain isn’t conservative enough so vote for someone who will lose thereby handing a vote to the biggest liberal in the Senate. Yeah, makes as much sense as it did in ’06. How’s Pelosi and Reid working out for ya? Has having had them made the country more conservative? No.

    Come to your senses, the lot of you.

  • Looks like you were wrong, way off the mark.

    Question is now…whether he’ll win the presidency.

    Shouldn’t your next blog be entitled, “Why John McCain won’t win the presidency?”

  • looks like you were DEAD WRONG LOL! Any speculations about Nov 08? Your article seemed so serious too! LOL

  • I wish you’d have said “no way Obama will be involved in a plane crash and land on Mccain and Hillary at the same time.”

    Way to be completly wrong though, good show of skill doushtbagith.

  • Mr. Benen…I’m sorry–I have a stitch in my side from laughing so hard at you’re adorable little attempt to predict a wittle nomination! How cute! How old are you, sweetie? Okay, so now that you see you were wrong, as any intelligent person could have predicted you would be, let’s try again, dear…Okay—who do you think will win the PRESIDENCY? C’mon…go ahead….what’s that sweetie? Okay, use your words…

  • john mccain will win as long a it remains close and there’s a continuation of black box voting,and illegals are allowed to vote.this is how gwb.stole last two elections.sincerely bill purser

  • Wow. You based your whole position on his answer about condoms? Fuck, maybe I should have a website. Aparently the qualification bar is set pretty low. Here is a prediction for you. McCain wins in 2008 because the Democrats havent ran anyone worthy of the office in. . . ah shit, I don’t know, 30 years. JFK is the last one that seems plausable and that was before my time. Obama and Hillary, huh? Doesn’t the party have a whole county to choose from? Seriously. I’m not really into politics, I just dislike the Democrats more. Haha.

  • McCain has two disadvantages to Obama: (a lot) less $$$, doesn’t draw crowds and support. Obama gets people excited like no other current policitian can dream of. Believe me, when the presidential debates come, America will see the true differences between Obama and McCain. McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” will get run over by the unstoppable, earth-shaking mountain of a person that is Barack Obama. Given the simple association of McCain with the Republican party, the lack of support from the conservative base, and overwhelming buzz that Obama is bringing to the world of politics there is one conclusion to be drawn about November 2008- – -McCain is toast.

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