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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
McCain ReactionsI concur with Jack Kelly's take. I'm not sure McCain will run for president in 2008 (he'll be awfully old). But if he does, he'll run more for the ego boost he'll get from a fawning press corps than because he thinks he has a serious chance to win. If McCain does run, he'll skip the Iowa caucuses, win the New Hampshire primary (where independents can vote), get killed in South Carolina, and then fade away, like four years ago. The press corps wouldn't fawn if McCain ran as a regular Republican instead of a "maverick." McCain's role as chief broker of the compromise already has generated lots of favorable attention from the MSM, which is what butters his toast. Sorry Hugh, McCain's a winner, not a loser.John Hawkins has an early McCain 2008 poster.
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