E.J. Dionne: McCain/Bush 2008
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Elections, General PoliticsStrategically, this makes a lot of sense. However, it’s hard for me to believe that McCain would forgo his “rebel” status by hooking up with a Bush. Just doesn’t seem like.
However, here’s what E.J. Dionne has to say:
Bush has been battling, with Rove’s help, for a long-term political realignment in favor of the Republicans. The president could well come to see McCain as the only Republican with a chance to push a Republican era forward. McCain, in turn, knows that his only way around the Republican right is to run with Bush’s open blessing, if not his outright endorsement.
And here is where Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the president’s brother, could be the deal-closer. Jeb Bush has said he will not run in 2008. But that does not rule him out as a vice presidential candidate. If McCain won, Jeb would be the No. 2 to a president who will turn 72 on Aug. 29, 2008, and might well serve only a single term. If McCain lost, Jeb would have enhanced national recognition for a run in 2012. If picking Jeb is the price of winning over George W., McCain will pay it.
Things that make you go “hmmm…”
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