GOP Source Tells Me that a Deal Has Pres. John McCain to Nominating George W. Bush To Supreme Court
Timothy Sexton
August 03, 2008
A few days ago I received a quite interesting e-mail from someone claiming to work with the Republican National Party who said they have some interesting information to pass on to me because they admired my writing and the position I have taken in response to holding Nancy Pelosi as responsible as George W. Bush for extending the Iraq war for another year when it absolutely does not need to go on even another day. The e-mail address was not official; it was one of the Hotmail/Yahoo/Gmail varieties. This person promised that they could prove that they were telling the truth by telling me to watch out for a big new ad from John McCain's campaign that was going to attempt to downgrade Barack Obama's Presidential timber by connecting him to panty-less party celebs. I was even given two names that would pop up in the commercial: Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Two days later guess what all the "liberal" media were showing free of charge about twenty times an hour? I got back in touch with this person and told them I was convinced. That is when I was given some information that I think, frankly, is perhaps the most explosively controversial news I've heard this year.
Do I trust this person completely? Of course not. I don't trust anyone connected to a politician, regardless of party. That's why I have been, am, and always will be an Independent. But I engaged in several long back and forth e-mails and there does seem to be an authenticity to this person's concerns about the direction of the Republican Party and, especially, the deal that apparently has already been struck. According to my source, the deal is this: come the summer of 2009 John Roberts will step down as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court citing health reasons. You may remember that almost as soon as he was appointed John Roberts suffered a seizure that required hospitalization. Upon his resignation, Pres. John McCain will nominate his replacement.
That nominee will be George W. Bush.
This person is not highly ranked enough within the Republican National Party to give details on when this deal was struck, but apparently it dates back at least to before Super Tuesday. Part of the deal was that the Bush administration would quietly toss its full support and campaign engine behind John McCain so it seems safe to assume that this deal was probably engineered sometime right after the New Hampshire primary. and possibly even before Iowa. My source could not comment on exactly what John Roberts gets out of the deal, but there was intimation that Roberts may perhaps actually not be in the best of health and was thinking of retiring no matter what. That part of the equation is the only aspect that leads me to question the veracity of this information. Otherwise it all makes quite logical sense. John McCain, who was not exactly burning down the house in Iowa or New Hampshire suddenly gets Karl Rove and the gang that killed him in S. Carolina in 2000 working full scale behind him and George W. Bush gets a job from which he can't be fired and that is not subject to term limits. As for whether the plan falls apart if the Senate stays Democratic? Well, the Democrat Senate has been just as much a rubber stamp for Bush as the Republicans were, and no ex-President has ever been denied entry onto the Supreme Court when nominated so don't hold your breath on that score.
I guess we'll just have to wait until summer 2009 to see if my chain was being yanked. Unless, of course, John McCain somehow manages to lose the election. But with the voting machines already counted in some states, that seems highly unlikely.
Do I trust this person completely? Of course not. I don't trust anyone connected to a politician, regardless of party. That's why I have been, am, and always will be an Independent. But I engaged in several long back and forth e-mails and there does seem to be an authenticity to this person's concerns about the direction of the Republican Party and, especially, the deal that apparently has already been struck. According to my source, the deal is this: come the summer of 2009 John Roberts will step down as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court citing health reasons. You may remember that almost as soon as he was appointed John Roberts suffered a seizure that required hospitalization. Upon his resignation, Pres. John McCain will nominate his replacement.
That nominee will be George W. Bush.
This person is not highly ranked enough within the Republican National Party to give details on when this deal was struck, but apparently it dates back at least to before Super Tuesday. Part of the deal was that the Bush administration would quietly toss its full support and campaign engine behind John McCain so it seems safe to assume that this deal was probably engineered sometime right after the New Hampshire primary. and possibly even before Iowa. My source could not comment on exactly what John Roberts gets out of the deal, but there was intimation that Roberts may perhaps actually not be in the best of health and was thinking of retiring no matter what. That part of the equation is the only aspect that leads me to question the veracity of this information. Otherwise it all makes quite logical sense. John McCain, who was not exactly burning down the house in Iowa or New Hampshire suddenly gets Karl Rove and the gang that killed him in S. Carolina in 2000 working full scale behind him and George W. Bush gets a job from which he can't be fired and that is not subject to term limits. As for whether the plan falls apart if the Senate stays Democratic? Well, the Democrat Senate has been just as much a rubber stamp for Bush as the Republicans were, and no ex-President has ever been denied entry onto the Supreme Court when nominated so don't hold your breath on that score.
I guess we'll just have to wait until summer 2009 to see if my chain was being yanked. Unless, of course, John McCain somehow manages to lose the election. But with the voting machines already counted in some states, that seems highly unlikely.