“We’re going to have to drag McCain over the finish line and into the White House step by step and then deal with him and his Cabinet appointments later.” ~ Rush
I have always assumed that to be the case.
As an aside, here are Mark Steyn’s comments about McCain looking “more and more like Yosemite Sam after the dynamite failed to go off” that Rush quoted:
Keep your sunny side up [Mark Steyn]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
Republicans have cause to be disappointed by last night: As everyone says, Obama wins by not losing. He looks more and more as if he’s already the president, while McCain prowling the stage seeking to “connect” looks more and more like Yosemite Sam after the dynamite* failed to go off.
Nevertheless.
Before everyone succumbs to a terminal case of inevitabilititis, it’s worth remembering we’ve been here before. In the last months of the primary campaign, the press kept assuring Hillary fans that Obama’s victory was inevitable and the shriller the media Obamaboppers got, the more bluecollar Dems sat on their hands. In the end all the King’s horses and all the King’s men had to drag the guy across the finish line. You couldn’t replay his spectacular victory in slow-motion because it was already slower than any slo-mo technology ever invented.
So we already know there’s a huge disconnect between the unstoppable Messianic force promoted by the media and the cooler appraisal by actual voters. What’s happened since primary season? The Iraq surge (McCain’s unique selling point) is a victim of its own success and has dwindled away to an irrelevant footnote, and the front pages are full of a supposed economic catastrophe which the crude rules of politics suggest any fool should be able to hang on the incumbent.
Yet Obama still can’t open up a solid lead. After all, why would record numbers of viewers watch the vice-presidential debate if the election’s already over?
Meanwhile, the supposedly damaged Republican brand is proving suprisingly resilient. I see one of the two New Hampshire seats that flipped blue in ‘06 may return to the red fold next month. Where’s the blowout?
(*A lot of the dynamite is well past its sell-by date: Two references last night to Ronald Reagan negotiating with Tip O’Neill. No one remembers who Tip O’Neill is. McCain might as well have been evoking misty watercolor mem’ries of Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna. Obama, by contrast, is all future - which is understandable, given his past.) ... 10/08 10:42 AM
I think LS’ comments in the Live Debate
Thread last night should be added to Rush’s and Mark Steyn’s comments I quoted in post #175:
“Clem, I’m looking at the polls and I don’t see how Obama wins this.
Get inside the internals: Obama’s trailing Kerry by 15% among Jews; trailing Kerry among Catholics; only getting about 83% of the Dem vote (McCain getting 90% of the GOP vote); he’s trailing Kerry in suburban voters; in a key county like Montgomery in OH, he’s running 2% behind where Kerry was; he’s behind in white males, barely up in females, even in independents, and shocker of all, Obama has yet to MATCH Kerry in blacks!
That does not equal victory, especially when you factor in the electoral college. I give Obama almost no shot here in OH due to southeastern OH. As of two weeks ago, the Dem operatives there said they still couldn’t convince people he wasn’t a Muslim!”
4,771 posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:36:23 PM by LS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099875/posts?page=4771#4771