John McCain just announced Draft on CNN!!

[December]

Did anyone just see that?

[ViolaLee]

That's a winning position. LOL!

[exigent]

...waiting to see if its true.

[December]

And at the same time.... Mitt Romney suspends White House bid
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has withdrawn from the race for the Republican party nomination for the US presidency.
Mr Romney spent millions of dollars of his own money on the campaign, but fell well behind frontrunner Senator John McCain after Super Tuesday's primaries. His withdrawal leaves Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul as the only remaining challengers to Senator McCain.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7233537.stm

[AlanC]

And your source on the draft statement is where?

[ViolaLee]

I'd like to see that too.

[AlonzoMourning23]

I know it only takes a second or two to click a thread link, but I still can't help but feel like I wasted my time. I knew I was wasting my time before I clicked it, but for some reason that didn't stop me.

[AlanC]

Don't you just hate when that happens? It's like eating something you know is bad for you..... but you just can't stop.

[just a grunt]

Newbie here. Is there some history on this?

I was intrigued by headline. Have watched CNN since I read HL. No mention of this by anchors or the crawler. Google yielded only a Ron Paul statement about McCain's position requiring reinstating the draft. Doesn't appear supportable.

[AlanC]

McCain probably mentioned there was a draft in the room and December drew some conclusions that he just couldn't wait to share.

[Pookie]

I don't see anything about it, either. Did I miss something?
Purrs,
Pookie

[Buck Laser]

If McCain were to come out for some form of universal national service, I might be sorely tempted to vote for him. Unfortunately, he's most unlikely to do something so intelligent.

[Muser]

A quick Google brings up this:

McCain: Draft would be unfair to poor families (http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/10/military_mccaindraft_071016w/)

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Oct 16, 2007 10:55:58 EDT

A military draft will never work until there is a way to ensure that the children of wealthy families serve, said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a Vietnam veteran and a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

“Before I would even have remote consideration for it, someone has to tell me how rich people are forced to serve along with poor people. Rich people can always find a doctor who can say they have a bad knee,” McCain said Monday in a meeting with Military Times editors and reporters.

“You can call it a lottery or call it a banana; rich people get out of the draft,” he said. “I am not ready to go back to a totally unfair system where we ask the poorest people in this country to serve.”

McCain acknowledged that maintaining the all-volunteer force that has existed since 1972 is becoming more costly and that costs have yet to peak because it could take further significant bonuses and other incentives to convince current service members to stay in and youths to join up in a wartime environment.

“We are going to have to up the ante,” McCain said. “The all-volunteer force costs money. It is a marketplace out there.”

McCain acknowledged that some people serve for patriotic reasons while others look at different incentives, but he said he is convinced that the services can continue to recruit and retain enough high-quality people, even with an increase in Army and Marine Corps active-duty personnel that is a key element of McCain’s national security agenda if he is elected president.

This article with McCain's quotes rebuts the OP.

As a general rule, however, a wise person should never rely on a politician's words, only on their actions.

[Grizz]

John McCain is nobody's fool. He has pledged to continue Mr. Bush's disastrous war in Iraq; he knows the military is worn down and getting fewer good replacements; Iran is still uppity and getting worse; the Russians, flush with oil and gas revenues, are seeking a return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, so why not institute a draft? McCain is a warrior, not a diplomat.

[Mark L Hamburger]

so why not institute a draft?

"Conscription is wrongly associated with patriotism, when really it represents collectivism and involuntary servitude." -Ron Paul

[preservanation]

I know it only takes a second or two to click a thread link, but I still can't help but feel like I wasted my time. I knew I was wasting my time before I clicked it, but for some reason that didn't stop me.
This milk is spoiled, here "taste it"...[hr]I remember about a year and a half ago, Rangel (D, NY) sponsored a draft in Congress, then voted against his own bill.
That's the last time I have heard of a draft being proposed by any prominent politician.