For McCain, a Choice on a Role for Bush

[Nitrogenica]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/us/politics/18mccain.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1203342696-Va3lzW0Z2ToDq/mPtq+r4w

"Senator John McCain’s campaign advisers will ask the White House to deploy President Bush for major Republican fund-raising, but they do not want the president to appear too often at his side, top aides to Mr. McCain said Sunday."


"But even as the consensus was that Mr. McCain needed to “stand in the sun” on his own, as one adviser put it, without the large shadow cast by Mr. Bush, left unsaid was the difficult calculus the McCain campaign faces: Using Mr. Bush enough to try to make the tough sell of Mr. McCain to conservatives but not so much that he will drive away the independents and some moderate Democrats that Mr. McCain is counting on in November."

McCain wants to have his cake and eat it too.

[MaineDem]

1. Oh, please, let him appear with McCain often!

That would be awesome.

[paparush]

2. Yes! Hug Early and Hug Often!

[totodeinhere]

3. McCain = a third Bush term.

We can't let it happen.

[Nitrogenica]

4. It should be a cakewalk to define McCain as more of the same.

It is, in fact, what he is if youy listen to his recent stump speeches.