--- In [email protected], "mainstream20016" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The McCain candidacy was moribund, broke, the campaign RV literally running on fumes > in the Fall - until Huckabee posed a threat - Suddenly, McCain was promoted constantly > as the 'favorite' Republican by the establishment media. McCain is NOT liked by > Republicans, yet he alone remains in the Republican nomination race. IMHO, ANY > candidate in the race would have risen to the top with similar support from the media.
> Something is seriously amiss. > > > ************ A crazy old coot like McCain in the White House is certainly a dreadful prospect, but, as you point out, he is not liked by Republican legislators, especially by his fellow Senators who know how crazy he is ( http://www.gopusa.com/forum/showthread.php? t=46315 ). Unless he punches in the codes on the football someday when nobody's looking, it may be the case that McCain's lust for war will be thwarted by the opposition in the Congress (and of course by American public opinion, which is already fed up with pointless war). When Nixon was showing signs of being overstressed, the Sec Def is rumored to have secretly ordered that the football ( http://aconstrainedvision.blogspot.com/2005/05/football.html )could not be activated without the OK of top military brass: "Once, in 1969, he is said to have ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea. Aides, including Kissinger, became used to ignoring or evading presidential orders delivered when Nixon was drunk. One of Summers's more startling revelations is that the defence secretary James Schlesinger took measures, including removing the nuclear command codes and alerting elite military units, to forestall Nixon resisting his removal from office, in the event that he had been impeached. http://www.newstatesman.com/200010090053
