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The Mystery Man
THE MYSTERY MAN....So who was the anonymous Republican senator who told Politico's Roger Simon that McCain ran a lousy campaign, Bush has been a lousy president, the GOP needs to pay more attention to Hispanics and less to Sarah Palin, and the era of small government is over? The betting line here is Mel Martinez. Anybody have a better guess?
Roger Simon's imagination.
I assumed it was Arlen Spector. Doesn't the Senator joke about adopting Jeb Bush in the interview? Seems like something an old guy would say. And I don't think it is Martinez because aside from immigration, Martinez is not much of a centrist.
I was going to guess Arlen Specter.
"But on Iraq, all (Bush) did [i.e., invade] is what Hillary would have done."
Really?
I can't say I think much of Senator Clinton but she's several orders of magnitude smarter than that.
Yes, she did fall in line like a good little triangulator but I can't conjure up a scenario where she would have gotten herself into the same situation.
She might've invaded Afghanistan after 9/11 if somehow she'd been President in 2001 (wouldn't you have loved to hear the Republicans howling in opposition about that and the Democrats defending the invasion?) but Iraq?
Really?
Any Senator who would blaspheme The Cause like that is obviously not really a Republican.
I wonder if any of them can actually articulate The Cause anymore.
Do they have any actual goals, or is it all just post-modern performance art, where they imitate policymakers without having any actual policy.
My guess was Norm Coleman, due to the "getting things done" line, a constant Coleman refrain. But after reading the "adopt Jeb Bush" thing and the bit about doing rallies with Sarah Palin, which I don't remember Coleman doing, I'm inclined to say it probably wasn't him.
Simon's source was pretty obviously a moderate, and Martinez, looking at McCain's vote tally and his own poll numbers in Florida, could be a born-again moderate these days.
Otherwise, I would guess Snowe, Collins, Specter, Voinovich, Lugar or Grassley.
Dark-horse guess: John Warner, an old bull headed out the door, and a figure who's been known to push back hard against wingnuts (e.g., Robert Bork, Ollie North).
joe lieberman?
Wouldn't it more likely be a Senator who is on the way out anyway?
Who else would know Jeb Bush's middle name without looking it up? It's Martinez.
Richard Burr R-NC
FWIW: a post-election opinion poll here in FL had Martinez at about 40% approval. Charley Crist--the 'centrist' or 'Schwarzeneger-style' Repub Governor--was at 62%. Maybe Mel is having a come-to-Jesus moment.
I am almost sure it wasn't John Boehner but Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and all the other Republicans that were passed over for Sarah Palin could be considered as possible candidates-For that matter so could Sarah Palin cause she knew it wasn't her fault-In all seriousness, a lot of real Republicans that loved Reagen and hated to see the Hawks take over the party could be candidates as well!
John McCain.
I will never buy a device
I will never buy a device that allows a company to push deletes to stuff I have. If I pay for something, I want to be in control. Nagware on our PC's, popup ads in the browsers, locked cellphones. Enough of all this crap.