I'm no fan of McCain, but right now this election is his.
Hillary is still in trouble. Richardson's endorsement means her reverund-gate momentum is slowed if not stopped. It is just enough to ensure Obama doesn't hemorrhage super delegates. Even if she wins Pennsylvania and North Carolina, I believe Obama still goes into Denver with the most elected delegates. Richardson means a lot to the super delegate battle, but zip for November.
My prediction, Hillary will bow out in two months. The Clinton Machine will work behind the scenes to sink Obama to ensure she can come back in 2012 to a “I told you you should have gone with me instead of the loser” campaign.
McCain wins in November, and wins surprisingly big. His administration causes a lot of us here to really want him gone in 2012. The Republicans better have a conservative on board then, or Hillary gets to pull a Dick Nixon.
Meant to add, McCain becomes OUR LBJ.
Yup, it will be critical. There will be, at that time, a Vice President. Who that is is very important.
Very astute assessment. McCain will win — the liberal wing of the Republican party will do all it can to ‘take back’ the party from the conservative wing, and the next four years will be teeth-grindingly difficult as McCain tries to please “his” base -— which is not us!
If he chose Romney for veep, and retired after 4 years, conservatives could have a chance.
It's quite telling, however, that when they desperately needed to change the subject (having already shot their wad) the best they could do was to roll-out the corpulent, smarmy, endoresement-for-hire, grease ball, Richardson.
That would be easier to figure out.
Okay, I’ve got to get cooking my Easter ham but I’ll throw my prediction out there.
I think Obama is dead meat. No way he can win in November, just no way at all. Even my niece the beautician said, when I mentioned Obama to her, that he was “dead meat”. and you know how I can’t on those ladies in the beauty parlor.
Now I don’t think the Dems are going to sit back and nominate a guy they know cannot possibly win. That’s one where I differ from you AB. If you think the Dems are going to go ahead and nominate a guy who can’t possibly win , for the PRESIDENCY, mind you, I got a bridge to sell you cheap.
This especially when they’ve got Hillary who’s got a hell of a chance to win if Obama is out of the way. Understand I don’t want Hillary to win but I’m thinking like a Dem here.
Now what has to happen is that Hillary needs to win the POPULAR vote in the remaining primaries and what with Obama so dead, as I see it, it COULD happen. PA has a lot of voters and there’s a few other primaries left. Last I heard, correct me if I’m wrong, is that Obama’s beating Hillary in the popular vote by a hundred grand or so.
So if Hill wins the popular vote in the primary, and Obama is declared unelectable by the Dem poohbahs, which he will be because he is, duh, unelectable. He’ll not survive the next seven months with the Rev. Wright on Youtubes across the fruited plains. Not to mention his white grandmother comments.
So the so-called super-delegates swing their votes to Hill which they will from the pressure of, yeah, the Clintons, but also common sense. Why nominate a guy without a chance to win?
One more major caveat. There’s always the issue of resentment, rancor, possibly riots by the black folk who will likely feel disenfranchised by the Dem party they’ve worked so hard to support through the years.
simple. Some Dem party elder approaches Obama yo mama and promises him...I dunno, the moon, the stars, a cabinet post, a 2012 run with the full support of the Dem party if he gets the hell away from that reverund....whatever it takes they get Obama to resign HIMSELF.
Obama asks his followers to hold any anger, that he intends to get some more experience and exposure, that he will be back after soul-searching and Hillary serves her two terms.
To think that the Dems are going to sit back and give McCain this next election, that Hill’s going to sit back and let unelectable Obama run to a huge landslide loss, well you give the Dems credit for too much decency.
The Dem nominee/MSM will paint McCain as a doddering old guy, like it did with Perot's VP nominee, Admiral Stockdale.
They already have a collection of McCain verbal fumbles, stumbles, stammers, and those are growing. MTP just discussed a major gaffe McCain made in Iraq regarding al-Qaeda and the Sunni-Shi’ite factions. Those kinds of gaffes will come back to haunt McCain in the general election.
Another is the ABC video of McCain's ‘conservative liberal Republican’. In this one short video McCain makes 2 verbals gaffes and McCain's repeats his desire assault the First Amendment by wanting to outlaw 527’s. McCain a 'Proud Liberal'? (Video)
I think both parties will have some serious thinking to do about the primary process after this election.
I don’t know what happened to the Republicans... I just don’t know. We had a couple of good candidates who gave up way too early.
We need to figure out a way to stop the crossover voting in those early states, and the dems are probably working on sumpin like that too, thanks to the Rushthevote.