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Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee for president, told the Arizona Republic this past weekend that a number of folks have been urging him to seek the presidency again in 2016.
Emerging from the recent government shutdown with better national poll numbers than Tea Party-favorite Ted Cruz and other Republican lawmakers who tried unsuccessfully to de-fund President Obama’s Affordable Care Act by partially crippling the government, McCain recently announced that he was seriously considering running for a sixth term in the U.S. Senate in 2016, but a third try for the White House was probably out of the question.
“Particularly since the shutdown, I’ve had a spate of e-mails and letters and phone calls saying, ‘Run for president again,’ ” McCain told the Arizona newspaper. “As you know, I’m seriously thinking about running for re-election to the Senate. But I think, in the words of the late Morris K. Udall, as far as my presidential ambitions are concerned, ‘The people have spoken — the bastards.’”
McCain, who first sought the presidency in 2000 when he lost a spirited primary contest to George W. Bush, will turn eighty a couple of months before the 2016 presidential election.
One might laugh at the thought of McCain again running for President, but there’s a very good chance the banking system will blow out before 2016, possibly making this Glass-Steagall advocate a viable candidate. Do I smell a LaRouche VP running mate? Combining their ages they’d be almost as old as the nation!