Hints and tips:
...McCain came close to selecting Lieberman as his running mate before picking Alaska governor Sarah Palin....
...Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Donald Trump....
...that included John McCain in 2000....
...John McCain is dead. Liz Cheney lost her re-election. Mitt Romney is retiring. The “Party of Reagan” is no more....
...Ambassador to Finland 1998-2001 Amb Michael McFaulDirector, Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the US Ambassador to Russia 2012-14 David KramerExecutive Director, George...
...Victory in the Iowa caucus on the Republican side has not translated into winning the White House since the days of George W Bush’s campaign....
...As to which side George Washington would have come down on, there can be little doubt....
...As the man who in 2007 and 2008 served as George W Bush’s point person for what history abbreviates to the GFC — the global financial crisis — few are better placed to take the temperature....
...Borowitz describes Palin, the governor of Alaska rashly plucked by John McCain to be his 2008 running mate, as a “gateway for ignoramuses”. This is where the idiocies begin to take on more menace....
...Powell was America’s highest diplomat during George W Bush’s administration at the time of the Iraq war that started in 2003, and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff during George H W Bush’s presidency...
...[John] McCain foreign policy was all a terrible mistake, and Putin is nothing to worry about,” said Bill Kristol, a neoconservative writer who worked in the Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush administrations...
...Powell was a Republican, but in 2008 supported Barack Obama for president in the race against John McCain. He backed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump....
...Though I was not invited to George HW Bush’s funeral, or John McCain’s, I watched both on TV with one ear blocked....
...One of his most vocal critics was Senator John McCain, who said he would “go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defence”....
...There have been so many moments that Trump seemingly crossed the line, including criticising John McCain for his war heroism, paying hush money to an adult film actress and siding with the Kremlin over America...
...Separately, the USS John S McCain, a guided missile destroyer, also carried out a freedom of navigation operation in the Taiwan Strait. Additional reporting by Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington...
...(Other attempts to create such associations, such as the League of Democracies idea taken up by the late John McCain, have gone nowhere.)...
...Colin Powell, a retired four-star general and former secretary of state under George W Bush, also addressed the convention....
...Mark Green, executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership, says: “This is no longer a battle between a single authoritarian leader and the forces of democracy....
...Former senators who worked with him say Mr Biden was known for his ability to forge agreements on legislation not only with Democrats but also Republicans, including lawmakers such as John McCain — a skill...
...Gallup spearheaded the model after making a name for itself when founder George Gallup correctly predicted Franklin Roosevelt would win the 1936 US election....
...After a dark speech in which Mr Trump talked about “American carnage”, former president George W Bush turned to Mrs Clinton and quipped: “Well, that was some weird shit.”...
...He compares the president-elect to Bush senior, Bob Dole and John McCain — all men who experienced personal tragedy....
...Reporting by George Parker, Chris Giles, Robert Wright, Gill Plimmer, Donato Paolo Mancini...
...None of Mr Trump’s predecessors as Republican nominee — Bob Dole, George W Bush, Mitt Romney — were invited to this week’s show, nor would John McCain have been were he still alive....
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