Posted on 10/10/2008 3:31:45 AM PDT by NCDragon
ATLANTA -- The Republican Party has held the White House for the past eight years and has controlled both chambers of Congress for 12 of the past 14. But if trends continue as they have, that run is about to come to an end.
With less than four weeks to Election Day, polls today suggest that Democrat Barack Obama will sit in the White House come January, enjoying enhanced majorities in both the House and Senate. And if that's how things play out, John McCain is doomed to be cast as the scapegoat by his fellow Republicans, in part because they never really liked him much in the first place.
Sarah Palin, by contrast, will reign as the party's crown princess.
You can already see the mythology beginning to take shape. Palin is being positioned by conservative media outlets as the stalwart defender of the faith, the true believer who is fighting the infidel with all her power but lacks a committed partner in McCain.
Palin's the one making the arguments that conservatives most want to hear, such as accusing Obama of "palling around with terrorists." When the McCain campaign decided to pull out of Michigan, it was Palin who repeatedly and publicly disagreed, insisting that the cause was not yet lost and that she could turn things around.
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Sadly, VERY true IMHO.
The truth is that Seattle has become a secluded festering liberal commune where nihilism reigns and self hate is common.
McCain/Palin will win this thing, maybe even win Washington State and the talking heads will scream bloody murder, but who gives those turds their power?
if a media member screams bloody murder and no one is listening does she make a sound?
Are you disappointed in McCain, Palin or the GOP?
Palin is the Governor of a State with a 80% approval rating. She came out of a small town and went from City Council to Mayor to State Energy Commissioner to Governor fighting for the People of Alaska and still raising a family. Who else can say that?
Obama knows enough about the issues to placate the MSM while putting a con job on a distraught voting public. He has been successful only in hiding the fact that he is a Marxist. He is Hugo Chavez with better suits but without the military experience.
Eight years of this guy and his policies and you will not be able to recognize this country again.
The Republican Party has controlled both chambers of Congress for 12 of the past 14.
False. But who cares?
Yes, I am disappointed in the stand that McCain is taking. His constantly “reaching across the aisle” indicates to me that he is shifting with the tide. We need a stalwart Republican, not a “Great Compromiser”.
As to those recently elected in the GOP? They’ve lost their way, they have a lack of vision. Those few voices who do speak for the conservative ideals are drowned out in the noise of greed and power politics. Palin, whilst exciting to listen to and supported by a re-energised base, is nevertheless a rare conservative politician these days.
Again, IMHO
Palin is a citizen politician while the rest of the GOP are career politicians.
Yeah, facts don’t matter when you’re making a point...
She is right about one thing. We are not interested in governing AS LIBERAL / SOCIALIST / DEMOCRATs. What’s the point in winning the battle if you just enact the enemy’s agenda.
I agree.
So they think a governor gets an 80%-90% approval rating and can pass legislation with significant Democrat help because she doesn’t know how to govern? Do these people even look at her record in Alaska?
If Obama wins then the United States is done.
Even if McCain does lose in Nov., let’s keep in mind we have a bright crop of young conservatives out there who will carry the banner for us — Palin, Jindal, Pence, Hensarling, etc. Remember in ‘92 when Clinton won — a lot of us thought we were heading to a dark era then, too, but we survived. The Dems in Congress overreached, as they will again. The only way a Dem president is going to succeed is when there’s a counterbalance of a Republican-controlled Congress. As much as I absolutely despise Obama and the Dems, I don’t think they’re going to be nearly as successful as we might think. A large part of the Dem majority in the House is made up of moderate “blue dogs,” who will definitely hear from their constituencies. As for the Senate, the Dems have to defend more than 20 seats in 2010. They know damn well they will need to watch their step.
Then again, of course, McCain could still pull out a win this year.
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