Status: Running
Entered Race: Formal announcement on April 25, 2007
John McCain is a Republican U.S. Senator from Arizona and frontrunner in the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. He lost the race for that nomination in 2000 because George W. Bush mobilized the masses of highly disciplined but not very discerning white fundamentalists of the Bible Belt against him. He now rarely misses an opportunity to abase himself before them.
For his 2008 Republican presidential nomination campaign has reportedly lined up Terry Nelson as his campaign manager. Nelson was national political director for President Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, he has a long record of ethically dubious activities. McCain will be a rather elderly 72 years old on election day of 2008; in contrast, Ronald Reagan was 69 when he was elected to his first term as president. His mental fitness for the office will be an issue in the campaign.