USNews: Quit the Senate, McCain Is Urged

[sabra]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/articles/070708/16whisplead.htm

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Quit the Senate, McCain Is Urged

Before he falls out of the top tier of GOP White House hopefuls, chief advisers to Sen. John McCain are urging him to quit his day job and become a full-time presidential candidate. "Just resign," one says he told McCain. "Show you're all in." Advisers say being a senator is a drag. He doesn't have enough time to campaign and raise money. Worse: The issues he has to vote on, like immigration reform, are killers. If McCain takes that advice, here's the game plan. "Pick three issues conservatives care about and nail them," says one adviser, "and attack Hillary Clinton every day. He needs to break out, and becoming the anti-Hillary will work."

[TlalocW]

1. Yes, quit the Senate. Quiiiiit the Senaaaaaate

That way, when you don't get the nomination for president, we won't have to deal with your insane ass-kissing of the religious right or your stupid insistence that everything is hunky-dory in Iraq.

TlalocW

[RB TexLa]

2. Doesn't seem to hurt Hilliary and Obama's fund raising.

wonder if it could be something else? But might has well try a stunt? How about marking up donations then marking them back down 70-80%?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Ganja Ninja]

3. He'd be better off quitting his presidential campaign.

He's losing the campaign to be the candidate for a party that is going down in flames in 2008. At this point he should be asking "Why bother?"

[tk2kewl]

4. ... and Janet Napolitano can appoint a Dem replacement.

:bounce:

[terrya]

5. Bob Dole resigned his Senate seat in 1996.

And we saw how well that worked for him.

[NewJeffCT]

6. Sshhh! Don't remind them

It's a good idea. Bob Dole won the nomination!

[LeftishBrit]

17. Wasn't he replaced in the Senate by someone even worse...

i.e. Sam (the Fruitcake) Brownback? Or am I mixing him up with someone else?

[socretes73]

7. Fear and Smear

all the Pubs have had for 6 long years now -

Fear and Smear so we don't think about their shame and stain.

[newyawker99]

18. Hi socretes73!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[AndyTiedye]

8. Any Chance of Getting a Democrat in His Seat if He Does Quit the Senate?

[tk2kewl]

9. the AZ gov is a Dem.

[blondeatlast]

12. Gov. Napolitano would have to appoint a replacement and

I'm not sure she'd appoint a Dem (even though she is one), she's got heavy braod spectrum support and might not want to risk it (it's been said she'd eyeing a denate run against McCain).

Even likely Dems are pretty centrist like former AZ Dem chairman Jim Pederson.

This may NOT be a good thing for AZ Dem aspirations to the senate.

[Toasterlad]

15. Quit Harshing my Buzz!

;)

[blondeatlast]

16. Sorry 'bout that. Dem politics in AZ are a unique brand!

:hi:

[napi21]

10. It wouldn't matter. All that would do is have him lose his Senate job

AND the Nomination. I used to like John, and I still like his rebel attitude in the Senate, but he lost all the attractive qualities he had in 2000, and now is just an old man longing for "the way things were".

[Boo Boo]

11. I think they're just making excuses. But, if being a Senator really is getting in

McCain's way that's actually kind of admirable, because it's not interfering with our side at all. It's gotten to the point that Reid was publicly admonishing the Dem Pres candidates for their absence from the Senate.

I think McCain's folks are just grasping at straws to explain his failing campaign.

[wicket]

13. k & r

:kick:

[Toasterlad]

14. My God, This is Brilliant! Yes, PLEASE, John, QUIT!

Am I wrong in thinking that McCain quitting the Senate, and having his replacement picked by the Democratic govenor of Arizona, would be a HUGE win for Democrats? If nothing else, it completely marginalizes that lunatic Lieberman.

PLEASE quit, John! PLEASE! Your country needs you in the presidential race FULL TIME!