According to this article in The Hill on 03/28/07, John McCain nearly left the Republican Party after his humiliating loss to Bush in 2001.
Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP
By Bob Cusack
Posted: 03/28/07Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.
What a shame McCain chickened out and didn’t go through with it!
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Yes he nearly changed party affiliation. Too bad he didn’t. He is a Dem in Republican clothes. For all intents and purposes he is Joe Lieberman with a bad attitude.
Let’s be frank. Actually the reason he didn’t change party affiliation was just so he could gain the nomination for this election.
Agreed. I’m not only concerned by what this skunk will do if and when he does get the republican nomination, but I would bank that he’d run as an independent if he does lose the republican nomination just out of spite. He has nothing to lose and obviously his party loyalty leaves a lot to be desired already.
Just curious, what will you all do when McCain wins the nomination. You all must realize that that’s where the betting odds are. Vote for him? Vote for someone else? Stay home? Just wondering.
NYer, I don’t vote for liberals. If that happens, I might go fishing. Sounds like you’ll get your Lib president either way. Would that make you happy?
We can always “write in” a vote…then…
“HOPE & PRAY” that the Poll workers know how to read!!…
Whoooooa, ease up there on the hostility cranky dude. Not everyone from NY is a liberal. Given my druthers I would be voting for Thompson but he is out of the race. Romney doesn’t overly impress me but I might vote for him all the same given the options. Won’t matter much of course, NY is a winner take all state and in case you haven’t looked at the polls yet McCain owns it so it is what it is.
I’m going to refocus my enthusiasm, energy, and campaign donations to local republican congressional candidates instead. Because unless we have more rather than less republican control in the Congress, lets just imagine what that will be like with McCain – he’ll capitulate – Hillary or Obamination, God forbid, they’ll have the run of the chicken coop with no one to stop them. The scenarios are all horrible so the one consolation we could at least have is working on getting some more republican influence in the House and Senate to make life a little more complicated in the horrible possibility of a McCain, Clinton, Obama presidency.
Only McCain and Ron Paul could have done this. Any of the other candidates would get total Republican support. McCain is a very unusual singular problem for those who have studied him. You cannot possibly be a uniter when you start off dividing your own party. Uniting with the other party on major issues such as immigration (which the whole Country is concerned about) in a way that appeals only to the far left fraction of the opposite party is divisive and the core reason that he is the wrong candidate and cannot get conservative support. Anyone who is a uniter would be on the opposite side of McCain on immigration even if they came from the opposite party. You cannot have open borders in a welfare state where we are bankrupting SS, Medicare, Medicaid and closing down hospitals while expanding our penal systems. Dittos for education. It is not the right and moral thing to do to the taxpayers that have coercively worked for years to support these government created entitlements. That should not be used to buy votes.
You’re right, task. When some libs I was debating with a while back were making comments about how unhappy the Republicans were with their candidates, I was arguing that it didn’t matter because these were the primaries, and that is what the primaries are all about, getting issues out in the open. I said that at the right time, we would all coalesce behind our guy. Little did I know that “our guy” would be someone I so disliked and distrusted, to the point that I do not want to pull the lever for him.