Considering he is going to be running against Hillary, I say it is a non-issue.
What’s the quickest way to bring down a candidate’s poll numbers? Make him unlikeable and call into legitimate question his fitness for office. That’s what is hurting Obama with the Jeremiah Wright issue.
Hillary’s negatives are already known and she still polls favorably against McCain, especially in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. She has a shot at Florida. Florida’s largest voting demographic is middle aged and elderly women. Hispanics like her, so she could grab New Mexico. The blacks will stay on the plantation, especially if Obama’s her running mate.
McCain, on the other hand, has an entire closet full of shoes yet to drop. He has name recognition with the voters because he’s been in DC forever and sponsored a lot of high-profile legislation, but his negatives have not gotten into the public consciousness yet, expecially with the mushy middle voters who only half pay attention to politics and whose votes he will desperately need in November.
If Hillary wins the nomination, McCain loses, pure and simple. He’s got a chance against Obama, unless Hillary’s his running mate. Hill and Bill had eight years of access to ALL classified information, including all the information about McCain’s POW years and information on POWS possibly left behind that was classified and sequestered at the Pentagon.
You think that wretched woman won’t utterly and completely destroy McCain if that’s what it takes to get back in the White House? She’ll step over his dead body to get to the Oval Office without a twinge of remorse. Like I said, the Stupid Party earned its title by nominating McCain against the Clintons.