McCain may make one-term pledge, Brownback says

[rainbow4321]

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/06/mccain-may-make-oneterm-pledge.html

Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas - appearing as a McCain surrogate - told the National Rural Assembly that the Republican's presumptive nominee for president is thinking about promising to serve only one term.

"I heard him say that months ago," Brownback said, though he tried to back away from the statement.

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On the stump, McCain has alluded to the possibility. Back in early January, a New Hampshire voter came to one of his town hall meetings and asked if he had the stamina to serve eight years. "If I said I was running for eight years, I'm not sure that would be a vote-getter," he said.

Right around that time, The Atlantic reported that McCain had been "inches away" from making an unprecedented one-term pledge a "central thread of his presidential campaign" when he launched his bid in April 2007. Language to that effect was in his announcement speech until a day before he delivered it. But close friends -- including former Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas -- talked him out of it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I would not believe anything that man says!

One term?

Oh sure!

Lying SOB...:grr:

He'd say whatever he needs to in order to get elected.....or is that selected???

[11 Bravo]

2. Let's set the old fart's mind at ease. How about NO terms?

[opihimoimoi]

3. RULE #1 when dealing with Flip Floppers....NEVER BELIEVE their CRAP

1 Term My ASS

gives him an op to comp the SCOTUS even more to the RIGHT....like in a Roe/Wade REVERSAL??? or worse....

when it comes to TRUST...the PUBS BLEW IT....they are NOT TRUSTWORTHY....

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Like getting a discount on expired tuna.

[Kutjara]

5. What the hell is McCain thinking?

Saying you'll only serve one term is like saying one or more of the following:

(1) I don't have the stamina for the job.
(2) I'm going to serve for long enough to start stuff, but not long enough to finish it.
(3) I'm just a placeholder till Jeb Bush is ready.
(4) My heart really isn't in this.
(5) I want my tombstone to say "President" on it.

The country is in dire need of effective, committed leadership that can solve major infrastructural problems, and this wanker seriously expects everone to vote for someone who just wants to pad his resume? Pathetic.

[JeffR]

6. Voters to McCain:

We have a none-term pledge we're going to make on your behalf, you phony warmongering prick.

[thewiseguy]

7. This does not help him. We need someone who is committed to fixing the problems.

[rainbow4321]

8. Which makes me wonder...

Is there some sort of bait and switch being planned. Repukes set up Mclame to run as prez, they get him to pick for VP who the repukes REALLY want in the WH, they win (no, I don't really think they will), and then in his 3 or 4th year, Mclame steps down, puts the VP in the WH and the repuke-pick gets to run as an "incumbant".
Whatever they have planned is probably 10x as evil as this scenario, I'm sure.


And, BTW..did anyone catch the video shown this weekend of him being interviewed back in 2000 when he was asked by Russert if he was interested in being VP back then???

McCain: "No because the only job (duties) of the VP is to ask about the health of the President each day and to attend third world dictators' funerals"



Nice...and they are going to trust this guy to pick a running mate...and imagine what the person who he DOES pick will think about his comment.

[davidpdx]

9. That is a plausible scenario

because if elected, McCain could retire at any time claiming it was for a health related issue. I think he'd have to wait until after the midterm election, possibly Jan 2011 and make it effective quite soon after the announcement. The only drawback is that the US Senate would then have to confirm whomever his VP selected as their VP. That means the Democrats (assuming they controlled the Senate) would be able to reject any candidate they felt was strongly suited for the VP position. Again this is all speculation based on McCain actually winning, which I very much doubt would happen.

[tritsofme]

11. The House also gets a vote on the selection of a new VP.

nt

[davidpdx]

15. In that case

they would be screwed trying to get the new VP past both the House and Senate. I'm not sure how they would pull that off.

[davidpdx]

10. No huge surprise

given his age, there is no way he'd be able to serve two terms. I still very much doubt his ability to serve more then a month in office given his chronic health problems and bad temper. He may at some point need to make the concession that he'd only serve one term, which in effect would be saying to his VP nominee, you are the man four years out. If he does, we'll see how well that goes over with the voters.

[Happyhippychick]

12. Pledge won't mean shit because he's going to LOSE.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. No term at all is what Gramps is looking at.

Sorry, John Boy.

[Donkey_Punch_Dubya]

14. Remember the "term limits" the GOP ran on in 1994 as part of

the "contract with america"? As soon as they got elected, they suddenly didn't think it was a good idea. They really wanted to limit the terms of Democrats in Congress only, and when they got a majority it suddenly didn't seem like a good idea to them. Seems like the same thing here for McCain.

[Cha]

16. That's the least of mccain's and brownback's

worries..there won't be a first term.

[rug]

17. I'd be more impressed if Frist said that.