Bush Admin. sabotages McCain campaign - shake up??

[dsotm-wywh]

So, the Bush Admin is close to finalizing a troop pullout deal with the Iraqi government. McCain's pretty much running ONLY on the issue that he's better at fighting the Iraq war and better at fighting terrorism and that Obama wants to lose the war and that timetables are harmful.

Why then, would the Bush Admin let this news break 6 weeks before the Repube convention? It is obviously going to hurt the McCain campaign because they're pretty much bucking him on his only issue.

I think this is because they are phasing him OUT. They're going to prove McCain irrevelant and they'll find some way to get him out of the election. Really, no one seriously thinks McCain has a chance in November. These goofy polls are coming out with him 4-5 points ahead of Obama but our local Repube conservative radio has pretty much already given Obama the victory.

I'm guessing that 1-2 weeks before the Repube Convention, McCain drops out (skin cancer?, family emergency?, scandal?) and they'll quickly replace him with a "true conservative" Mitt Romney at the last minute. This will energize the base. The party will rally around their new hero. Romney will get a huge boost in the polls a mere 6 weeks at that time before the election. He'll be their savior. McCain will be their pawn.

[davidnc76]

1. Romney?

I do not see this coming at all. The Christian conservatives of the GOP hate Romney b/c he is a Mormon. It will never happen.

[dsotm-wywh]

4. You think they hate Romney more than McCain?

All the Repubes I know hate McCain, even the super Christian ones. Christias aren't nearly as scared of a Morman as they are of a weak moraled flip-flopper.

I've got some serious right-wing Christian nuts in my family who didn't vote for Huckabee in the primary because they knew he didn't have a chance so they voted for Romney cause of their hate for McCain. He's the one they're all pushing as the "true conservative".

[DJ13]

2. The Bush backers have never liked McCain

They considered his near win over Bush in 2000 as a betrayal.

The Bush family and their minions have never tolerated anyone who dared to challenge them.

Its too bad McCain was too stupid to understand that as he was sucking up to Bush all these years.

[cliffordu]

3. Me and Swampy have been saying this for a couple of months, now....

NO ONE can seriously think McCain will stay in until November.

[dsotm-wywh]

5. Right...and this is further proof

As party minded as the Bush Admin is there is absolutely NO logical reason for them to agree to an Iraq timetable 2.5 months before an election that McCain has based his entire campaign on.

He's running on two things - winning the war in Iraq even if we have to stay for many many years and that he's not Obama.

[cliffordu]

6. You're absolutely correct. He is not Obama. Thank God.

[DJ13]

7. Maybe they want to backdoor Jeb in his place?

[jtrockville]

9. ^ that's where my money is. Jeb and Condi.

[cliffordu]

12. I just peed a little bit.

HAAAALLLP!!!! I wanna wake up!!!!

[lutefisk]

8. I say it's "Poppy/Jeb '08"

But seriously, McCain is a rabbit, a distraction, until the real candidate is put in place. Or, maybe the VP candidate will take over at some point before or after the election...

I used to think it would be Condi/Jeb '08, so I really don't have a clue.

[FredStembottom]

10. This has been on my mind all day.........

It seems to be exactly as you state it - Bush admin. kicking the stool out from under McCain.
That's his only issue.
This is just amazing... and puzzling.... and hopeful.

[Journeyman]

11. The Republicans want to lose. The only chance they have is for McCain to lose. . .

George W. has left the nation in such a shambles, it's difficult to imagine how anyone can set things aright. Another four years of McSame would doom the Republicans -- and they know it. Their best hope is for a Democrat to inherit W's disasters. Then, whichever way it goes -- if the Democrat can fix the problems, or if they prove uncorrectable in one or two terms -- the Republicans may be in a position to stage a comeback. It may take more than two or even four election cycles, but they'll have the opportunity. Unless, that is, McSame is elected, and all the disasters coming down the pike end up piled unequivocally on their doorstep.

[lutefisk]

13. If they win, they'll blame everything on the "Democrat" Congress

And the corporate media will be more than willing to help them do that.

[Journeyman]

14. So true, and that's their only hope. . .