AZ Senator John McCain not a GOP candidate in '08...

No he didn't make an announcement or anything. He just said to Chris Matthews yesterday that he will vote against ending judicial filibusters.

Unless McCain is stupid (and he certainly is not) or has a tin ear for politics (which he also does not) he knows that the Republican base - who already holds him at arms-length - will never vote for him if he essentially sides with the Democrats on blocking Bush's judicial nominations.

So yesterday's statement - for all intents and purposes - takes him completely out of the running. I don't think he had a reasonable chance at the nomination anyway, but at this point the possibility of him raising the kind of funds for even an "exploratory committee" on a potential candidacy just went down like Monica Lewinsky.

I am wary of one possible scenario in 2008, however: that McCain will emulate his hero Teddy Roosevelt and become the "Bull Moose" third-party candidate of the 21st Century. If that happens, all hell will break loose and Hillary may just get her return trip to the White House after all.

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