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...McCain wins, of course, scenario No. 2 is impossible. The problem is that so is scenario No. 1. There's simply no way a McCain Administration could pass the kind of large-scale conservative initiative--think of Reagan's big tax cut in 1981 or George W. Bush's in 2001--that fires up the GOP base. Facing large and aggressive Democratic majorities in Congress, McCain will have to drink deeply from the well of bipartisan compromise if he wants to get anything done. The alternative will be veto upon veto as he tries to remain ideologically pure...
...Buchanan's challenge in the 1992 primaries, followed by Ross Perot's in the general election, which together cut the Republican Party's heart out. Already Rush Limbaugh and James Dobson are unhappy with today's GOP. If McCain wins and governs significantly to the left of George W. Bush, the party's meltdown in the early 1990s will seem like child's play...
...McCain wins the South Carolina primary, avenging his 2000 loss there to George W. Bush...
Over the years (the company dates to 1824, when John Cadbury, a Quaker in Birmingham, England, opened a shop selling tea, coffee and chocolate), Cadbury has snapped up some impressive brands, including such names as Dr Pepper, 7Up, A&W, Canada Dry, Sunkist and Snapple, which came as part of its merger with Schweppes in 1969. On the candy side, it was Stitzer's 2003 acquisition of Adams, which included the Halls, Dentyne and Trident brands, that transformed Cadbury into the world's largest confectionery company...
...granting it power to cope with a nuclear attack and even, reportedly, implement martial law--prompting clashes over jurisdiction with the Justice Department. Meanwhile, underqualified political appointees fill the agency's bureaucracy; in 1985 FEMA Director Louis Giuffrida steps down amid allegations of fraud. SUCCESS FAILURE George H. W. Bush 1989-1993 UNPREPARED FEMA's lackluster response to 1989's Hurricane Hugo prompts Senator Fritz Hollings to denounce it as the "sorriest bunch of bureaucratic jackasses I've ever known." Yet the agency is caught flat-footed again when Hurricane Andrew overwhelms southern Florida in 1992, leaving 160,000 people...