I'm convinced Bush has something on McCain.

[JohnLocke]

There's no other explanation. McCain must has some sort of dark secret that we don't know about.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. It could be that he still wants to be Prez in 2008 that he needs to play

the Party Game, as distasteful as it may be to him.

[Bush was AWOL]

4. He has to know he has zero chance of getting the nomination

His outspoken nature has put him at odds with many in his own party.

There has to be another reason he is supporting Bush.

[Eric J in MN]

5. McCain has a chance in 2008 (nt)

nt

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Oh, I wouldn't say there's NO other explanation.

If I were really nasty, I'd make some Repug-style comment to the effect that his time as a POW twisted him to the point that he identified with his abusers, and, like many victims, still clings to the perpetrators who humiliated him in 2000.

But I'm not that nasty, so I won't plant that notion here.

[desertalien]

6. I'd be LOL

if it wasn't so possible.

[troublemaker]

3. I don't recall who said it, but McCain's relationship with the

Republican party is the same as his relationship with his captors in Vietnam. Spurts of defiance met with beatings and followed by forced "confessions." It's some sort of masochistic addiction brought about through serious trauma.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Kind of like the battered-spouse syndrome.

Many (I believe most) battered spouses come from families-of-origin in which they were abused. They go on to marry people who help them to replicate the pathology of the FOO. They then go on to re-enact the early abuse ad infinitum. Sometimes, though, they break away from the victim role and play perpetrator.

It has been said that the three major products of abusive families are victims, perpetrators, and psychotherapists.

[Tim_in_HK]

7. Hmm, let's see

Bush is a Republican, McCain is a Republican
Bush is ultra-conservative, McCain is ultra-conservative
Bush wants to be prez until 2008, McCain wants to be prez from 2008

Makes perfect sense to me.

[No Mandate Here.]

9. My small voice from Pennsylvania

also says that * must have something on Specter, as well. He used to think for himself.

BTW, I was just at the Somerset stop of the Hoeffel caravan. Reasonably well attended, for this part of the state. (to the right of just about everywhere.)

[procopia]

10. or... Bush promised him something

really good