Posted on 05/04/2008 9:56:22 PM PDT by The_Republican
Barack Obama said Friday, “We’ve had a rough couple of weeks.” Actually, he’s had a rough couple of months. He’s lost three big primaries to Hillary Clinton. And, should he hold on to win the nomination, he can no longer be considered a clear favorite over John McCain in the general election.
In a New York Times/CBS News poll in late February, Obama was defeating John McCain 50 to 38. Two months later, the Times/CBS poll had McCain and Obama tied. The poll that came out yesterday showed Obama reopening a lead over McCain — but clearly over this period a vulnerability for Obama was exposed.
And when Obama’s 12-point lead over McCain was evaporating, Hillary Clinton was moving from a tie in February to a five-point advantage — and now that has widened further.
The main reason for Clinton’s strong performance was surely that she didn’t have as her pastor for 20 years the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Obama has now repudiated Wright because of his remarks at the National Press Club last Monday. But Wright said nothing new there. AIDS could well have been invented by the U.S. government. Sept. 11 was at least in part “chickens coming home to roost.” Louis Farrakhan deserves our respect. These views of Wright were known to Obama when he made his “I can no more disown him” speech in Philadelphia on March 18. Yet, last week, at a press conference in North Carolina, Obama claimed to be “shocked” and “surprised” by what Wright had said, and disowned him.
What really seems to have shocked and surprised Obama is what Wright said about him: “What I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing.”
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Jindal? The guy just took office.
No.
Not yet.
We don’t know enough about Jindal and he doesn’t have enough experience. If he was on a losing ticket, he’s probably never recover his momentum in politics.
As it is, he’s got a long & promising career ahead of him.
While I believe Jindal will someday be part of a Presidential ticket, I don’t think it’s going to happen this time. Just on a SWAG (Scientific Wild-A** Guess), I’d say 2016, maybe 2012.
Absolutely right.
Jindal has potential to be a star. Find someone else and let him work a miracle in the swamp.
It would also neutralized the racial benefits I think. Not that I want the racists to help GOP. I hope they stay at home, but the fact that if Obama is the nominee, that alone would result in huge gains. Most from the bitter bloc. With Jindal on the ticket, bitter block would get bitterer (new word) or stay home.
I don’t think East Indians are big enough voting group to tilt any of the Battle Ground States in favor of GOP. Although their may be some dumb hispanics who might be tricked into voting for him. ;o)
Second, you want a guy who could be PRESIDENT behind McCain because of his age issue. That doesn’t mean the guy behind him can be in baby diapers. This guy simply lacks the experience AND gravitas.
Finally, despite all hell breaking lose for GOP, Louisiana is not going to be THE problem. We need some guy to deliver Pennsylvania or Michigan.
Is their a respectable Hispanic Conservative out there?
That would send the Dems scrambling like sniveling rats they are! LOL!
One thing is now certain. It won't be McCain-Jindal.
Polls show McCain-Romney vs. Obama-Clinton: Obama-Clinton won 47 to 41.
What did we ever do to deserve this?
Yeah, because Louisiana REALLY wants a Governor Mitch Landrieu grabbing absolute control of the state with his sister in the Senate.
She was on Charlie Rose the other night. She's W's expert on the ME and has studied economics. She has her act together, doesn't mumble, and gets clearly to the point. She's a looker to boot.
I keep expecting Rod Serling to show up.
That reversal of a three-point McCain lead to a six-point deficit for the McCain ticket suggests what might happen (a) when the Democrats unite, and (b) if McCain were to choose a conventional running mate, who, as it were, reinforced the Republican brand for the ticket. As the McCain aide put it, this is what will happen if we run a traditional campaign; our numbers will gradually regress toward the (losing) generic Republican number.Who is he categorizing as "conventional"--those who support the platform ("brand")?
So, they continue to think the reason Republicans aren't winning is because those "losing" "generic" Republicans just aren't liberal enough?
McCain is definately not that smart.
2012 will be no good. Isn’t that when Art Bell, George Noory, and the remote viewers say the world ends because the Mayan calendar ends?
Really... what’s her CV? I’ve never heard of her.
What cracks me up are the freepers who are crazy about that Alaska female governor (who just had a Down Syndrome baby) being McCain’s VP. They seem to think she’s the Second Coming...or someone close to it.
McCain truly has no chance unless he picks a solid conservative—and the same goes for Hillary needing a Blue Dog for VP.
well in this PC age in which whites are supposed to not act like they know they are white but everyone else can whine about their racial identity then we must kneejerk choose someone other than white male
how touching and weak
Not capable of taking the reigns of President of the United States, were John McCain to croak midstream.
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