McCain is going to drop out

[Hawkowl]

I think we will hear an announcement in a matter of days that McCain is dropping out for health reasons. Either a stroke or brain cancer, etc. The photos of him resemble nothing more than an animated corpse. There is no reason to stop ads and suspend the campaign other than for his health. It just feels like his campaign has completely come apart and resembles other campaigns that have thrown in the towel.

Does anyone know if at this late date, the Rethugs could get any other candidate on the ballot in all fifty states? Is the campaign money the rethuglican presidential candidate's or McCain's personal war chest? In other words, could McCain transfer the campaign funds to a new candidate?

Anyone else have this same feeling?

[Drunken Irishman]

1. People have been saying this since spring and he hasn't.

No, I do not believe he will drop out.

[OhioChick]

2. Not a chance he'll drop out.

Just pulling political BS.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Spring of last year even. People are just repeating what they hear on Randi Rhodes.

[WeDidIt]

3. Not. Gonna. Happen.

Sorry, nothing short of dying from a stroke or brain cancer will pull him out of the race. It's too late. The ballots have been prepared in most states.

[Hawkowl]

7. O.k. let's rephrase the question

Do you think McCain will RESUME his campaign since he has suspended it?

[washingdem]

10. YES. It is TOTALLY ABSURD to suggest that McCain is dropping out.

[Sebastian Doyle]

18. Well, he's clearly up to something....

First he wants to "postpone" the debate on Friday. Then he wants to move it to NEXT Friday and "reschedule" the VP debate at a time "to be determined later".

So is he trying to get himself out of the debate, or Moosealini, or both?

It's definitely NOT out of genuine concern for a financial crisis that his greedy millionaire deregulation promoting RePuke ass helped create in the first place.

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[Barack_America]

12. Even then, they'll still run him.

After all, who would notice? ;)

[Solomon]

28. LOL You owe me a keyboard.

[AllieB]

36. A "Weekend at Bernies" move.

[youthere]

33. Won't matter...they still ran Cheney.

[RagAss]

6. He's just down a quart of Embalming Fluid.... they'll fill him up..he'll be fine

[gauguin57]

8. I don't believe for one minute he's going to drop out. He's trying a political ploy, and Obama's

not biting. He's being a big drama queen and "suspending" his ads, etc., so he can work full-time on this economic thing (which he, himself, has admitted isn't his strong suit :shrug: , but whatever ...)

McCain will pathetically try to make Obama look bad for not suspending HIS ads, and the media will obsess about it all for 2 or 3 days, then McCain will realize his ploy was boneheaded, and he'll get back on the no-talk express and all will be as it was.

He's been an animated corpse for 2 years, and hasn't dropped out yet!

[mohc]

9. So long as they can prop him up

He still has a better chance of winning than any replacement would. A replacement would have no money, no organization, and no time to run a serious campaign.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. I hope we win this one on the issues

I hope we don't win it because FcCain falls ill. I think that would be a cloud over an Obama presidency that he wouldn't need.

[casus belli]

13. There is a very real possibility that he could drop dead...

but I'm not sure whether it would hurt or help his chances. I kind of think they would try to run him anyway, like an animatronic rethug in a twisted political version of a Chuck-E Cheese sideshow.

"Yeah, so what...he's dead. Leave it to a maverick to keep going despite the toils of rigormortis."

[ShortnFiery]

15. It could be re-vamed and called "Campaigning with Bernie"?

:yoiks: The GOP would prop up a rotting corpse rather than to EVER allow another Democratic Executive Branch.

[casus belli]

16. We're joking, but I'm willing to bet...

that there are lurkers taking notes.

Are you listening in turdblossom?

[ncgrits]

14. I don't think so.

His enormous ego won't allow him to even consider dropping out. All he wants in the world is to be called POTUS. Today proved it--he'll do absolutely anything to win . . . even commit political suicide with a ridiculous Hail Mary pass.

It's bizarre, that's for sure.

[Kahuna]

17. Yeah. Roooight.

:crazy:

[BlooInBloo]

27. You forgot....

[Kahuna]

40. LOL!

:rofl:

[Medusa]

19. He's not sick, just desperate

he wants a "game-changer". He wants to position himself as a "strong leader" and all that other bullshit. In other words, it's another distraction because the old geezer is l-o-s-i-n-g and he knows it!

[sunnybrook]

25. it's lead the media by the nose time again...

Like when he picked Palin and suddenly got press coverage, changing the subject....

[curious one]

20. No he won't drop out bur he may replace his vp with someone more credibility.

Palin has become a drag.

[onenote]

37. that isn't going to happen either

She still has the fundies lovin' her and he can't afford to look like he fucked up the choice.

[KT2000]

21. Animatronics

if need be - will get him to the election.
No way will he ever drop out.

[saltpoint]

22. McCain is in it until November, I think, which is good for us and not

so good for him.

Of late he reminds me of those ancient lifetime achievement recipients at the Oscars who mumble out a canned speech and then when they're done speaking, they turn around two or three or four times, not quite sure how to get off the stage.

[Inkyfuzzbottom]

32. Sounds a lot like...

Ronald Reagan.

[saltpoint]

34. LOL!

[dancingme]

23. he's stay in and blame it on the media

when he looses.

[KansasVoter]

24. Please stop this crap. All impossible stuff!

[peace13]

26. He will not drop out he will drop over.

His little engine is running on empty and his VP choice is stinking to high *ell. He has a full plate, that little man does.

[SharonRB]

29. They could always get Palin at the top of the ticket

:rofl: I so could see that happening.

[onenote]

30. not a chance

As bad as he and his campaign are doing, he still is the repubs best chance of winning. Political campaigns are not one man operations. There is an entire infrastructure and they work for McCain. His people run things. ANd they are running them badly. Replacing him means replacing that team. It would take weeks and they don't have weeks. McCain won the repub nomination handily (despite his early troubles) and those repubs who supported him in the primaries aren't going to simply shift over to ...by the way...who is replacing McCain in this scenario.

Replacing McCain with anyone that the repubs could come up with produces a bigger loss than sticking with him. It creates a sense of disarray that will threaten more repubs down ticket.

As for why he suspended his campaign (for a couple of days max) and stopped ads -- its to shift the discussion. He's succeeded in doing that, but its not clear the new discussion is an improvement for him. Early indications are that its not, but it was as others have said, a Hail Mary.

They have no viable option but to stick with mccain and pray for a meteor to hit obama.

[THUNDER HANDS]

31. No. Even if you lose an election you still go down in the history books

and at this point in his life, that's all McCain is really looking for.

[lutefisk]

35. John McCain is playing possum. That doesn't always work out so well...

[Neshanic]

38. Never. Happen.

[Lex]

39. No he's not.

nt

[Lint Head]

41. Hell drop out because he is a hero and a coward.

:dem:

[BuyingThyme]

42. Only if he has to have major surgery.

[cbc5g]

43. Funny it says skip it but no one does

;)

[cbc5g]

44. Funny it says skip it but no one does

;)