Posted on 09/12/2008 7:47:36 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Barack Obama knows it. The election he had in the bag is slipping away.
The selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as John McCains running mate has so thrown him off stride, as it has most other Democrats, that all the momentum he had has vanished. Hes getting panicky advice from everywhere. He intends to launch more and sharper attacks, abandoning any pretense of a new and different, more civil campaign.
Democrats know something, and desperation is setting in. They have a novice campaigner who wanders off message. With every advantage in the primaries, Obama couldnt win the big states New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania against Hillary Clinton, even when he got to define the rules for running against him. She could never risk alienating the base shell need in 2012; John McCain and Sarah Palin have no such constraints hence the panic.
For a change candidate, Obama appears to be a man locked in time, unable to move past criticism, unable to move from the grip of the Democratic left, unable to adapt to the changed reality that the campaign is not the referendum on the war in Iraq or on the administration of George W. Bush that hed envisioned.
Hes begun to sound dated. Last week, for example, he devoted valuable campaign days less than two months remain into explaining a silly lipstick on a pig line. The McCain campaign had reacted, accusing him of making the reference to Palin. I dont care what they say about me, Obama responded. But I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and Swiftboat politics. Enough is enough, he said. (The Swiftboat reference is from the 2004 campaign of John Kerry).
The Democratic left is still seething from the Kerry campaigns loss and is determined to see Bush expelled from the White House in disgrace the reason it is locked in to making this a referendum on the administration now ending.
It barely worked when the maverick McCain, no darling of the Bushites, got the nomination. With Palin, the Washington outsider, the third term argument is plainly absurd. But Obama cant let go, just as the lefties cant let go of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth defeat of Kerry. He cant move on.
Obama has the habit, too, of reminding voters of their doubts about him, as he did in reminding a Detroit audience that hes been accused of being less interested in protecting you from terrorists than reading them their rights. And, when he professes love of country as his basis for refusing to allow the McCain campaign to attack his words, he raises questions about why he finds the affirmation of love necessary.
Obama will lose because with less than two months remaining voters wont be able to get comfortable with him. He cant stay on message and he cant avoid sending signals that interfere with the message when he does.
McCain, on the other hand, has been superb going back at least to Obamas European tour. Mainstream America is comfortable with him and, with Palins selection, conservatives who had their doubts are onboard. The GOP is energized and suddenly an unwinnable election is reversed.
Obama got this far by winning small states and Southern states he has no chance of carrying in November. In Georgia, for example, the latest Insider Advantage poll has McCain pulling 56 percent of the vote to 38 percent for Obama, numbers that are not likely to change more than 4 percentage points in November. The undecideds and those who intend to vote for third-party campaigns are at 6 percent.
In this election, voters will decide early. Obamas been in a yearlong campaign; McCains familiar. The two are sufficiently exposed and known for voters to make a decision now.
Its not over. But its getting there and Obama knows it.
Why not? Kerry is a political genius compared to Zero.
When they nominated the MOST INEXPERIENCED,
MOST UNQUALIFIED and
MOST EXTREME candidate of the far-left,,,
what did they expect???
vermin is right! couldn’t agree more.
False. Higher prices cut the Democrats platform of high energy prices right out from under them. They have lost big time on this issue.
The more voters learn about Obama, the less they like him.
>> Obama got this far by winning small states and Southern states he has no chance of carrying in November.
> Interesting take, meaning hes even more toast than he appears now.
That was Hillary’s take, before her inevitable defeat in the primaries.
NO WAY does higher gas prices help the democrats.
lol
Isn’t this exactly what Sarah was talking about in her convention speech? Having energy independence and not having to worry about storms in the gulf, etc.
Dems are the ones stopping progress in this area, they are the ones doing nothing about drilling and keeping prices high.
I also think this could be the end of the Democratic party. If Obama loses, I think ALOT of blacks will abandon the party having been dissed. Who knows what will happen then ...
Nice photo collection.
A Tsunami of information is about to destroy Zero.
Oh, man, that’s classic!
Great job, RK!
They’re screaming because BO is the best they have!! What, possibly, could the rats know about ‘qualified’ ‘good’ ‘character’ ‘statesman’?
There will be fewer of them after this takes place.
...And I’d still swear that’s George Carlin at the wheel!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I'd pay a grand to see it. (If I had it.)
Even on a good day, there aren’t too many folks dumb enough to come back into my neck of the woods!
Even the State Police only come back here when they absolutely have to!
We take care of ourselves! And each other!
A Tsunami of information is about to destroy Zero.
***That’s one thing the republicans are good at. Two hits a week, enough to cause doubt. What they should be focusing on is how to weed out Congress & 9% Nancy, plus how to put the permanent sting on Obama so he doesn’t come back again. He’s young, not like Kerry and the other guys who basically had one shot.
So, so good! McCain Campaign would love it. Such great talent on FR.
Thanks Roscoe - That is very funny and my wife is still laughing!
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