McCain: "Only contracting a fatal disease" will make him drop out of race

[Bluebear]

ABC News' Rick Klein and Bret Hovell report: Sen. John McCain said Friday that only "contracting a fatal disease" will cause him to drop out of the presidential race before the primaries begin, as he vowed to take his campaign directly to the voters of New Hampshire and other early-voting states as a means of compensating for his financial difficulties.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/07/mccain-well-win.html

[Eurobabe]

1. Was his phone number on the DC madam's list?

John, tsk, tsk, be careful what you wish for...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. Mercy.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. "Fatal disease", say, like anthrax in the mail?

[Eagle_Eye]

4. John McC. can never win. I hope he stays in to the bitter end

Put him up against any Democratic nominee, and watch him get his clock cleaned.

The guy is a loser who can't make up his mind if he wants to be a conservative or a liberal. This is very dangerous. People who flip and flop set bad policy.

If you want a progressive liberal president, vote for the real McCoy; vote Democrat

[Dulcinea]

5. Even if he runs out of money?

You can't run a campaign without big bucks. He'll have no choice but to drop out.

[jody]

6. A political fatal disease is lack of campaign donations. n/t

[tom_paine]

7. He has one: Bootlickus Tyrannicus

And it is quite clear that his Bootlickus Tyrannicus Express has run right into the very ditch where it belongs.

[napi21]

8. CNN played that comment yesterday. I'm sure he BELIEVES that!

HOWEVER, right after they played that comment, the CNN host described that McCain flew to his campaign speech site via commercial jet and had to carry his own bags. I believe REALITY will smack him in the head soon enough.

[mwb970]

9. McCain is as delusional as Bush.

Bush. Cheney. McCain. Lieberman. What is wrong with these people?

[Hersheygirl]

13. One word sums it all up.

EGO!

[Island Blue]

10. Oh John, life itself is a fatal disease.

Drop out now while you still have some dignity. Oh wait, never mind. Your dignity was lost sometime back in 2004 in the sweaty arm pit of George W. Bush. Carry on.

[MissWaverly]

11. He has to go to primaries to get federal matching funds

otherwise, he's in a deep hole with no money.

[Solly Mack]

12. Stupidity is often fatal

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. LOL . . .

That's related to that deadly genetic condition, Presidentitis, isn't it?

[Solly Mack]

16. teehee

[rucky]

15. Stubborn AND Stupid

There seems to be no shortage of those qualities in the GOP.

[jean]

17. we're supposed to believe he can manage the presidency when he can't handle a campaign?

[Hubert Flottz]

18. John has a fatal political disease...Hug-a-thug syndrome

It almost destroyed GI Joe LIEberman.

[malaise]

21. Actually he also has cancer n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

22. You'd think he'd want to put some distance between himself and

the Devil then, instead of embracing the old scratch and helping to carry out his evil work.

[Lerkfish]

19. a veiled reference to John Edwards' wife?

that's how I read it.

[saltpoint]

20. "It is distinctly possible to stay too long at the fair." That's from

Joan Didion, and she didn't mean it in a political sense, but it applies in the present case.

McCain is looking mighty pale these days. And the coffer is nigh empty.

There is a slim chance of a miraculous comeback, but I believe it's curtains for McCain.