AP confirms McCain is starting up his PAC again in hopes of winning another term.
WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain, whose presidential bid was snuffed out two weeks ago by President-elect Barack Obama, is setting up a political action committee as a first step in running for a fifth term in the Senate.
A McCain spokesperson says the 72-year-old senator decided with his senior advisers Tuesday night to set up the fundraising PAC. The spokesperson spoke anonymously because the decision had not yet been made public.
http://apnews.myway.com/articl…
I was among the minority who didn’t believe he would retire in 2010. McCain is not going to go out with his debacle of a Presidential campaign as being the first thing in people’s minds when they think of him. He cares too much about his faux “maverick” repuatation and needs to rebuild that (as well as his repuation among the press) before he sails off into the sunset.
Someone can primary him out of the picture?
but I guess there goes that Senate seat chance. It could still be competitive if Napilitano ran agaisnt him.
He’ll discover he has a family that needs tending to between now and 2010.
How willing is McCrazy willing to kiss up to President Obama to fend off Janet Napolitano? This should be fun to watch. Now that he’s had to run far to the right to please the wingnut fundie base & the corporate welfare base while he was running for President, how far to the left will he have to run to fend off the strongest challenge he’s faced in decades?
But I remember when Pete Domenici was just definitely going to run for re-election in New Mexico (and believe me, even with the whole attorney scandal, Domenici was a LOT more popular in New Mexico than McCain is in Arizona)
All setting up this committee means is that McCain is keeping his options option. That’s it, nothing else. Most Senators who retire don’t make the decision 2 years out, they do it much closer. McCain just wants to be viable IF he decides to run for reelection, and he knows with Napolitano a possible challenger that he’ll have to fundraise early and often.