* Obama vanquishes and embarasses Hillary, ending the Clinton reign of terror.
* Denver's Democrat convention makes 1968 convention look like a day at Disney.
* Obama begins to make mistakes, gets exposed, wears thin on voters during general campaign.
* Democrats begin to turn on Obama as weak candidate who can't win.
* McCain picks solid conservative as his VP candidate. McCain wins election.
* McCain decides not to run in 2012. We get a real conservative elected and win back Congress.
OK, I can dream, right? :-)
* Denver's Democrat convention makes 1968 convention look like a day at Disney. 20%
* Obama begins to make mistakes, gets exposed, wears thin on voters during general campaign. 70%
* Democrats begin to turn on Obama as weak candidate who can't win. 25%
* McCain picks solid conservative as his VP candidate. 50%
* McCain decides not to run in 2012. ???
JMHO
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Certainly that is the best-case scenario.Even if he picked a VP nominee who wouldn't run in '12.
I know some would think it futile to do, but were I McCain and thinking only about winning in '08, I might nominate Thomas Sowell - who's older than McCain, and really wouldn't be able to campaign much - for VP. That would get conservatives on board, and spike any talk that a vote for McCain is a racist vote against a black.
Wouldn't win much of the black vote, but it would make a lot of white people feel good about themselves for wanting to vote for him . . . which would IMHO make a critical difference in the campaign. I would expect that ticket to run very well. Sowell would campaign - very leisurely, in conservative territory. And just preach a patriotic gospel - and say why Obama is not a patriot.