Well John Kerry face George Bush in the election?

[benburch]

I have been wondering for quite some time whether George Bush will be the Republican nominee this year, and recent leaks that he is on powerful psychotropic drugs just to function have only reinforced this doubt.

John Kerry and John Edwards have been preparing to defeat Bush and Cheney, but what if Bush drops out and the Republican Convention, in a "September Surprise" nominates Senator John McCain?

What will happen to our chances if we have to face a totally defferent opponent?

-Ben Burch
White Rose Society Webmaster
http://www.whiterosesociety.org

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. don't think McCain would be their choice

Don't think he'd be a willing tool of the powerful interestes who control Bush.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Sorry, Ben...

I just don't see the flexibility in the repukes that would allow them to goto "The Thermonuclear-Political Option".

They will just smack a few more 5 lb. Thorazine Suppositories up Chimpy's ass with a hand sledge and soldier onward.

[Langis]

3. Well...

If they nominate McCain we will loose. But they won't, McCain can not be controlled. That is why he didn't win in 2000.

[tritsofme]

4. But the media does have a collective orgasm whenever his name is

mentioned.

That's why I think he will be nominee in 2008.

[Langis]

7. I think he might be a bit old to run in 2008.

I still don't think republican leadership want him. They will fight hard to make sure he doesn't run.

[lapfog_1]

10. McCain won't run, even if chimpy keels over tomorrow

[benburch]

11. Why not?

It would be his best chance of ever being President, and he knows it.

[Enraged_Ape]

13. McCain is not a paid-for henchman of the Saudi Royals and the BFEE.

He may be a right-wing tool, but he's not a made member of the Bush Crime Family. He'd do what he wanted to do, not what George H.W. and Bandar Bush told him to do.

[lapfog_1]

14. I'm sure that he is ambitious

and we know he wants to be president, and I'm sure that he
believes that he would be better than *.

But despite his public support for *, he is not part of the
BFEE, nor is he a tool for the Scaife/VRWC crowd... and those
are the guys that destroyed his chance in 2000, and they still
run things in the rethuglican party. He won't allow them to
use him, and therefore they wouldn't try it.

Besides, I think McCain is still a little above party politics
and I just don't think he would run against Kerry. Anyone else,
yes, but they are good friends and it's my belief that they
would not choose to run against each other.

[Nay]

5. This would definitely hurt our chances, because

many former Bush voters would be so relieved to be able to vote for a Repub who was NOT Bush, that they'd be getting off their couches to do so. It hasn't occurred to them that Bush is a figurehead and things would go on just the same with someone else on the ticket.

[benburch]

6. That is exactly my fear

We lose all of the Bush voters we've won over, and have less than two months to recover from that blow.

[Vanje]

8. They'll manage GW Bush's mental problems

as skillfully as Ronald Reagans 2nd term dementia was managed.

People who worked with Reagan during his 2nd term knew there was something seriously wrong, yet most citizens dont know , even now , how absent Reagan really was.

They've had practise. They can do it again.

[ArkDem]

9. You are right. There is an excellent chance that Bush

won't be nominated.

[progdonkey]

12. no chance whatsoever

For Bush to step down for whatever reason would pretty much kill the whole "resolute leader on top of everything" and "mission accomplished" party line. It would open a feeding frenzy in the party: many party members simply detest Cheney--among them McCain (not to mention a vast majority of Americans)--, so they would do everything they can to both prevent a Cheney presidency and/or even his nomination as the GOP candidate (they'll stay loyal to the party until a point, and I believe that point is when Bush states he won't be seeking re-election).

Bush will be the nominee, and he'll most likely still have Cheney as Veep (though, that's actually able to change). Kerry will destroy Bush in the debates--likewise with Edwards and Cheney--and the bushies will just stage another coup and continue their consolidation of dictatorial control....:mad: