Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Can You Spare Some Change?
It's been three long months dear readers (cue the sound of crickets). Anyway, on to more important things: Presidential Politics 2008!
I'm pretty much in agreement with this assessment of the GOP field. It's very weak, especially since Guilliani dropped out. I don't agree with the idea that McCain will drive "real" Conservatives to vote for Hillary Clinton. That is just patently insane.
Nor will it ultimately matter. Hillary Clinton will not win the Democratic nomination. The media is far too in love with Barack Obama, and that is in large part because Hillary is too divisive among independent voters. Of the general field the party, um, fielded, I think it is also weak on the Democratic side. One one hand you have a person who rode in to power on their spouses coattails. On the other, the polar opposite: a candidate with absolutely no record, but he's charming, a left-wing nut-job, and he's black to boot. Oh, and change, lots of change. He's just handing out spare change everywhere he goes. He says change so often, you'd think he's actually targeting the homeless vote.
Once McCain and Obama have their nominations though, this thing is going to go straight Republican. Because McCain will start move to the left throughout the race he'll placate the Indie's. Meanwhile, the Republican attack machine is going to have an aweful lot of questions about Obama's admitted cocaine use, and you know the thing about his Muslim education are going to come up again.
McCain will ultimately win the Presidency. He'll be a mediocre President, but we're all just waiting for Jeb Bush 2012 anyway.
I'm pretty much in agreement with this assessment of the GOP field. It's very weak, especially since Guilliani dropped out. I don't agree with the idea that McCain will drive "real" Conservatives to vote for Hillary Clinton. That is just patently insane.
Nor will it ultimately matter. Hillary Clinton will not win the Democratic nomination. The media is far too in love with Barack Obama, and that is in large part because Hillary is too divisive among independent voters. Of the general field the party, um, fielded, I think it is also weak on the Democratic side. One one hand you have a person who rode in to power on their spouses coattails. On the other, the polar opposite: a candidate with absolutely no record, but he's charming, a left-wing nut-job, and he's black to boot. Oh, and change, lots of change. He's just handing out spare change everywhere he goes. He says change so often, you'd think he's actually targeting the homeless vote.
Once McCain and Obama have their nominations though, this thing is going to go straight Republican. Because McCain will start move to the left throughout the race he'll placate the Indie's. Meanwhile, the Republican attack machine is going to have an aweful lot of questions about Obama's admitted cocaine use, and you know the thing about his Muslim education are going to come up again.
McCain will ultimately win the Presidency. He'll be a mediocre President, but we're all just waiting for Jeb Bush 2012 anyway.
Labels: Democratic Party, politics, Republican Party
