Posted on 05/04/2008 9:56:22 PM PDT by The_Republican
Barack Obama said Friday, Weve had a rough couple of weeks. Actually, hes had a rough couple of months. Hes 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 Obamas 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 Clintons strong performance was surely that she didnt 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 needs more experience, and LA needs him to clean up the corruption in that state.
Jindal's a good story, but he's politically green as grass, and I don't mean grass-roots. He let Mary Landrieu and her creature Kathleen Blanco beat him five years ago for the Louisiana goobernorship with some really savage gutter-politics (racist as hell) that Jindal, my Louisiana relatives tell me (who include some Indian-Americans) Bobby Jindal simply would not unbend enough to answer in language that would be clear and clearly understood to Louisiana voters. He wouldn't condescend to fight -- something that RiNO's in particular esteem in a politician, since "above politics"/"too good to brawl" is part of their value system, and their politics of "I'm objectively better than you are". Call it the politics of Yankee snobbery, which RiNO's mistake for oxygen.
Bill Kristol simply doesn't want McCain to pick a conservative, esp. a Southern conservative. That's what this is about. One of Kristol's contributing editors at the Weekly Standard wrote a philippic against Southern conservatives right after the RiNO's had engineered the Bob Dole debacle in 1996, and then this guy took it on the road for five years, telling every GOP conclave and seminar and anyone who would listen, that the GOP had, simply had, to walk away from the South. Southern conservatives, who had brought the GOP back to the majority in Congress only a few months earlier, in the 1994 triumph, not only had lice -- they are lice in the Neocon construction. This is way beyond sour grapes, this is enmity talking.
So put it on your calendars, kids; there's going to be a showdown between the Southerners and western conservatives, on the one hand, and the urban-liberal (formerly Trotskyite) Neocons on the other, for the future of the GOP. The conservatives brought victory in 1994 and 2000, and they've been rewarded in every other election since 1994 by having their teeth kicked in. Even in 2000, while Karl Rove was telling the Christian contingent at the GOP convention how wonderful they were, George W. Bush was personally attending a dinner with the Log Cabins to tell them, both personally and through advance-woman Mary Matalin, how very welcome gays will be in the GOP of the future -- they and their fat wallets. (And never mind the pederasty scandals; we're bigger than that.)
That all said, I don't doubt McCain will listen to Kristol, howbeit that Kristol's writing this article suggests that Kristol isn't convinced himself that he has McCain's ear.
I have lost all faith in the polling organizations and believe they are nothing more then arms of the media and more interested in forming opinion then sampling opinion.
“Bill Kristol: McCain-Jindal?”
Nope.
“Although their may be some dumb hispanics who might be tricked into voting for him. ;o)”
You don’t think that McAmnesty already has that vote locked up?
“What did we ever do to deserve this?”
Held open primaries in blue states.
I'd like a source to these results, please...first I heard of this one
Wikepedia has a write up on her. What’s CV?
Hahahahahhaa.....actually that’s true. Go Preston! Grow up already! He would have to battle Chelsea Webb someday.
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