I love Mark Steyn but all that’s necessary to write that particular piece is a keen sense of the bleedin’ obvious.
Hillary manages to deny him the nomination, or he gets it but loses on a McGovernite scale. Traumatic meltdown, bitterness, civil war in the party, etc, leading perhaps to the sundering of key elements of the Dem coalition.
Fixed it!
What’s the best thing to happen to Democrats?
Deportation
What’s the best thing to happen to Republicans?
Testicle implant.
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“What’s the worst?
Hillary manages to deny him the nomination, or he gets it but loses on a McGovernite scale. Traumatic meltdown, bitterness, civil war in the party, etc, leading perhaps to the sundering of key elements of the Dem coalition. “
Happy thought.
Smiling too much? I’m not smiling at all.
If McCain loses, the Democratic winner will be promoting a socialist agenda, much of which will likely pass if the Democrats continue to dominate Congress, as expected.
If McCain wins and pushes a “me, too” agenda, the GOP will eventually resemble the the national Republican Party under President Eisenhower, which steadily lost strength during the eight years of his administration—or today’s moribund California Republican Party under Governor Schwarzenegger.
Dead bang!
There is another possible outcome. BO wins, followed by a Carter-like foreign policy, Middle East erupts, oil shoots to over $ 200 a barrel - this in the midst of stagflation at home while gun-toting, God-loving working stiffs get more and more bitter. In short, the first African-American President leaves office after four years reviled and despised.
Democratic disarray and dirt coming out on both of the Dems has resulted in McCain figuring he has the conservatives in the bag and therefore free to pander to the embittered democrats
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