Is John McCain Bush's 'Lurleen'?

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There's a headline at Salon that reads
"John McCain runs for George Bush's third term".

And I thought "Is John McCain Bush's 'Lurleen'?
Lurleen who?
Why, Lurleen Wallace, the first (and so far only) woman governor of the great state of Alabama.

From Wiki:
"George Wallace had become very popular during his first term as governor (1963–1967), largely due to his opposition to racial desegregation. He could have easily won a second term in 1966 had he been eligible to stand for one. In Alabama (as in many states at the time), governors were not allowed to serve two consecutive terms. This provision was incorporated in the current state constitution in 1901.

Wallace attacked this problem on two fronts. First, Wallace worked for the repeal of the term limiting provision. Although he failed to achieve the change in time for the 1966 campaign, he eventually succeeded. Wallace served three subsequent terms, including two which were consecutive. Second, Wallace devised a plan in which his wife, Lurleen, would run for governor while he controlled the policies and procedures of the governorship in the background, duplicating the strategy in which Ma Ferguson won the 1925 election for governor in Texas."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurleen_Wallace#Governorship_and_illness

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1. More of the Lurleen story. Not pretty.

Wallace's attempt to change the succession rule before the 1966 campaign failed. However, using his wife as his electoral surrogate succeeded, and Mrs. Wallace won the Democratic nomination for governor in 1966. She was elected Governor of Alabama in November 1966, and was inaugurated in January 1967.

She had made her gubernatorial run carrying a tragic secret. Lurleen Wallace had been diagnosed with cancer as early as April 1961, when her surgeon biopsied suspicious tissue he noticed during the cesarean delivery of her last child. As was common at the time, her physician told her husband, not her. George Wallace insisted that Lurleen not be informed. As a result, she did not get appropriate follow-up care. When she saw a gynecologist for abnormal bleeding in 1965, his diagnosis of uterine cancer came as a complete shock to her. When one of her husband's staffers carelessly revealed to her that Wallace had discussed her cancer with them, but not her, during his 1962 campaign three years earlier, she was outraged.<1>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurleen_Wallace#Governorship_and_illness