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Politics : The Supreme Court, All Right or All Wrong? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (200)	7/26/2005 12:57:28 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3029

Let me play Devil's Advocate here. Assume that Hillary Clinton is on her way to winning the Democratic nomination in 2008, and that the only Republican that can beat her is John McCain. Are you willing to accept Hillary as president for the sake of nominating an ideologically pure but unelectable candidate? McCain is a conservative, though a moderate one on most social issues. Check out the ratings on the American Conservative Union website. acuratings.org McCain has a lifetime rating of 83. Hillary has a 9 and Kerry a 4, one point lower than Kennedy. Zell Miller was a 73. There is no question that McCain has been a periodic pain in the ass for Bush. But you know something, McCain got screwed in South Carolina in 2000. What happened to McCain in South Carolina turned my stomach, even though I was, and remained, a Bush supporter. I think part of McCain's problem with the right is stylistic. He enjoys his "bad boy" status, and he loves to preen in front of the cameras. That sort of behavior usually doesn't sit well with most decorous Republicans. I would like to see a McCain-Bush ticket in 2008, though I think that Jeb Bush, who hopefully will be president one day, will probably sit out the next election. A couple of months ago, Bob Novak reported that McCain's top guy was meeting regularly with Karl Rove. If not Bush, maybe McCain-Allen. I have a lot of respect for Rudy Giuliani, but I think that there is probably too much baggage in Rudy's past. Kerik was probably the tip of the iceberg. Being a big city mayor is a dirty job; inevitably, some of it rubs off. Frist is DOA, still a work-in-process. He is too stilted. Hillary would skin him alive. Before anyone starts flaming me, let me point out that I have been a conservative Republican since the mid-60s when I first discovered William F. Buckley. When I was fifteen, I was passing out Goldwater literature on the south side of Chicago (try that some day) while Hillary was passing out the same literature in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Too bad she didn't discover Buckley. The GOP needs to be pragmatic if it is going to stop Hillary.