Bush endorsement may be risky for McCain

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Source: AP

WASHINGTON - Beware, John McCain. The money comes with a price. Sure, President Bush will raise millions of dollars for your Republican presidential campaign and GOP candidates. But he'll also give you the aura of a presidency tarnished by painful gasoline prices, a sagging economy, the threat of recession, a blemished U.S. reputation around the world, turbulence in the Middle East and many more problems.

There's also the unpopular war in Iraq — although you already are closely associated with that. How often to rub shoulders with an incumbent president — or whether to appear with him at all — is a delicate matter for presidential wannabes.

Al Gore's decision during his 2000 campaign against Bush not to embrace President Clinton was probably a gift to the GOP. Many people think that despite Clinton's personal troubles, Gore should have been standing shoulder to shoulder with Clinton, who had high approval ratings as he left office. "McCain's got to make it very clear that this is not a third Bush term, but a John McCain presidency," said Republican pollster David Winston.

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McCain's Democratic rivals each claim to carry a mantle of change, and even Bush admitted he used that line when he ran against Gore in 2000. "Every candidate has got to say `change,'" Bush said. Maybe Bush didn't do McCain any favors, however, when he followed up by saying that McCain is not going to change U.S. policy when it comes to battling terrorism. "He's not going to change when it comes to taking on the enemy," Bush said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080306/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_asset_or_albatross

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Being endorsed by the worst failure of a President in history a risk? Nah!

[Cobalt-60]

1. Albatross!

Chimp hung a big smelly one around McCain's neck today.
I'd rather get an endorsement from Fu Manchu than that turd.
I wonder how they strong armed McCain into it?
He's a torture and squander republican, but he's too smart to
have accepted this political death mark voluntarily.

[Lasher]

2. McLame has no choice here

Everybody knows he's Junior's boy.



And if Junior were not to endorse the Republican nominee, that would really raise eyebrows.

I don't think McLame is going to try to distance himself from Junior. I think they're going to attempt to convince us that a third Bush term (that's what McLame would be, ya know) would be a good thing. They have plenty of time and resources to try and pull that off.

[sofa king]

3. Dear John McCain fans,

Did you know that:

That John McCain was a cowardly war hero and a bad prisoner of war?

That John McCain is a brainwashed "Manchurian Candidate."

That John McCain has a "black child?"

Now just remember that I didn't tell you that, because none of those things are true. The George W. Bush campaign told you that back in 2000.

So you can either believe me, or your godlike dictator. Your choice.

[bluestateguy]

4. The DNC should start the direct mail campaigns now....

[skooooo]

5. My friends.....

I predict a big loss for McCain in November!!!!

[mwb970]

6. That's assuming he lives long enough to see it.... /nt

[Demeter]

7. George Bush Has Coat Tails??!!

Whodathunkit?

[Earth Bound Misfit]

8. Shrub Endorses McCain in his...

Frat-Boy style

[Thepricebreaker]

9. Bush will make McCain a FUCK LOAD of cash.. Bush is an amazing fundraiser.. believe it or not...