Posted on 04/20/2008 11:01:51 AM PDT by The_Republican
Polls show Clinton holding a stubborn lead over Obama and, if she wins, she will have staved off political death one more time. Yet if Clinton wins by a narrow margin - even after an unusually bad stretch for Obama, including his foolish observation about 'bitter' small-town voters and a horrendous debate on Wednesday - her victory will be underwhelming.
In the next two primaries, on 6 May, she trails badly in one (North Carolina) and has surrendered a one-time lead in another (Indiana). Even some Clintonites say they will pressure her to drop out should she lose both those states. And one of her prominent (unnamed) supporters recently estimated to the Politico newspaper that she only has a 10 per cent chance at the nomination.
For a fleeting moment recently, it did seem that Clinton might stand a chance, when controversy exploded over Obama's incendiary pastor, Jeremiah Wright. But Obama's skilful address on race, coupled with the media frenzy around Clinton's foolish exaggeration of 'sniper fire' in Tuzla, slammed that door.
Democrats such as Dean quite reasonably wonder whether their party has become like a family that spends millions in legal battles over an inheritance, only to find there's nothing left at the end. Though in this case the inheritance lost is nothing less than the presidency.
For as Clinton and Obama peck away at one another over honesty, patriotism and race and the like, John McCain is quietly resting, raising money, staging gauzy 'biography' events and laying out campaign positions to little criticism from a distracted left. And the Republicans are laying the groundwork for the same cynical but deadly brand of politics that has kept them in the White House for eight years.
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Once Dems do settle on a nominee, there would be natural bump in their favor as previously analyzed in other articles. McCain would have to overcome that. Sooner he gets going better his chances would be to erase that lead.
If after accusing each other of being Terrorist Sympathizers, Dems can still tie McCain in polls, then that to me is scary.
Yes. McCain is a big-time loser. That is scary, regardless of how the race comes out, whether he wins or loses.
The Republican Party leadership who set this up so one of their favored candidates, Giuliani or McCain, would win the nomination have a lot to answer for. In this critical race that may decide the future of our country, the last thing we need is a weak, liberal, corrupt, ill, base-kicking, unpopular candidate.
I think Mac should continue to sit this out for now. I really like the campaign strategy he’s laid out that relies on a “federalized” approach. He should also hold off on the big ads until the last moment, regardless of the nominee. The Dems come in with a 2-1 advantage in money this time. Let them spend it while Mac gets free coverage, youtube, blogs, etc...Main problem he has is Judas’ within the party who suffer from McCain Derangement Syndrome. They need to be silenced or Obamabots will take over.
One recurring feature of recent presidential campaigns has been the disgraceful effort of the Republican party to compensate for its unpopular positions on major issues, from health care to Iraq, by impugning the character of the Democratic presidential nominee. Liberals have made this complaint for some time, but I lent it new credence after listening to a senior figure in the Bush political machine. 'You guys never get it,' he said to a group of journalists who'd been debating the politics of some newsworthy issue. 'People don't vote on issues. They vote on character.'
Who said this?
Republicans weigh BOTH. BTW is the Dems who raised these questions about Obama. McCain has avoided going there.
Well its disturbing because it doesn’t matter you like him or not, the other side just accused each other of being TERRORIST SYPMATHIZERS! When was the last time something like that happenned on National TV between two Presidential Candidates? You would think they would both drop to low teens after that in the polls.
Obama: Same Old Crap. Just Slightly Darker Brown.
Heheheheheheheh!
“Republicans are laying the groundwork for the same cynical but deadly brand of politics that has kept them in the White House...”
LOL...if only this were so! It is McCain’s dumb luck that the Dems have to choose between two Marxists, with very shady connections in their past. Pointing this out to the electorate will be decried by their fellow Leftists in the msm, but that should not deter the GOP from exposing the truth. We’ll see if “Gentleman John” has the courage to do it.
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In every case, the GOP message to America was the same: the Democratic candidate is too fancy to understand your world. He looks down on you. He is a product of a coastal elite establishment that derides real Americans.
They really don't even realize they are doing it, do they?
There problem isn't that it's not true, it's that it keeps them from winning elections. The thing they don't seem to understand is that a person doesn't need a college to detect contempt coming from someone with one.
I don’t care if the President is a snob as long as he’s a conservative snob.
Until we take back our education system from the Democrats/socialists, we are doomed to be electing democrats and socialists.
Why do conservatives put their kids in public schools to be taught a socialist curriculum by socialists ?
Well, Nikki, let me tell you about that.
Not all public schools are that way. Some are, but not all.
Some kids are weak minded or poorly raised and might believe
the crap that is taught there. I pity them. But they aren't my problem.
I have publicly educated kids and they are not socialists.
You can take that theory and cram it.
Given the huge popularity of OBH's hard-left socialism with the under-30 crowd, do you think that public education's decades of socialist indoctrination isn't responsible for at least some of that?
I'm sure it is.
But proper parenting can and does immunize kids to a great
degree against the garbage in the public school agenda.
There may well be a ton-and-a-half of pro-gay, pro-socialism, anti-gun,
hate-America bullshit being pushed in public schools.
My kids don't believe it, they move on past it.
Parenting and example is stronger than propaganda.
This article says it all. It is the reason that Democrats seem to lose. But, not because of any dirth tricks by Republicans - and not because the electorate agrees with the Democratic issues either. It’s because the Democrats are so out of touch in their ivory towers, they do not understand average Americans and our value system.
The Dems lose because they mock our values, propose socialism in the name of being do-gooders, and nominate candidates who are so far left that they fall off the beach in California.
LOL! Well Said.
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