Posted on 02/11/2008 5:14:59 AM PST by Dukes Travels
Now that John McCain has virtually locked up the Republican nomination, most attention has been turned to the showdown between Democratic titans Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. And that’s good for Republicans. The longer the Democrats fight, the more vicious their battle will get. And the Democratic Party and nominee will be weaker for it going into November.
But at some point, one of them will make it out alive and turn this Democratic fury toward John McCain. Many Republicans hope that nominee will be Obama. The idea is, he’s young and inexperienced, and will turn out Hispanic voters in favor of Republicans – all of which is true. Others add that his black (well, half-black to be more precise) status and his full name – Barack Hussein Obama – would energize voters against him. This is less convincing, since the net effect of his color would probably be positive, but a legitimate argument nonetheless.
Despite these claims, Republicans should hope that Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee, and might want to do what they can to help her in what is now an uphill battle against Obama. And she could use the help – after all, promises of exceedingly hypothetical “hope” and wholly unspecified “change” are remarkably difficult to defeat in a Democratic primary.
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Its time for Change... Change we can Believe in... Change for Change’s sake... Its time for Obama and if you think otherwise you will be labled as intolerant and hate filled, the reason for the division in politics because.. you will be assimilated.... Obama has the cures for all your ills, Obama has the answers for what ailes the world.. Oh glorious Obama you were sent to mend this great nation... Now is your time... Take your rightful place in the White House and change the landscape of America forever...
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hmmmm the uneducated, uninformed and youth fall for this crap? Amazing how Obama is allowed to use Civil rights era victim rhetoric to advance his campaign....
Whoever is the Dem nominee, I think they will win very easily over McCain. Actually, I think a 50-state sweep is possible. And what I'm very curious to see is this: If a black man were elected president, if his margin of victory were historically high, if an old white war hero were defeated by a young powerful black man ... would America still be considered a hopelessly racist country in which black folks were oppressed and not allowed to get ahead because all white folks hate all black folks?
Democrats being who they are, I'm pretty sure that the song would remain the same.
Obama is preferable because his opponent is coming to the end of a thirty-year plan to seize power and rule with an iron fist. There are literally thousands of regulators-in-waiting and judges-in-waiting, hand picked by Her Thighness, ready to overturn 220 years of Constitutional government and rule like Stalinists.
I have no illusions about Senator Obama - his ideas are every bit as bad as hers.
But he is not at the head of a revolutionary long-term project with international connections and thousands of ready-to-go commissars. She is.
If Obama is elected, powerful countervailing forces will oppose him and his own inexperience and probable incompetence will limit the damage. The President, alone, is not a dictator.
Hillary’s administration-in-waiting is a clear and present danger to the republic. Young Senator Obama, IMO, is not.
Stupidest political analysis ever. Clintons do not make good anything. They are perpetual candidates. The day Hillary took the Whitehouse, the fundraising and pandering would begin. You can't say what a Clinton will do before they have done a focus group anyway. Barak may turn out to be a crook and he may not. We know Hillary is a crook.
Every pro-America American should do whatever it takes to keep the Clintons as far away from power as possible. We must fight them in the primaries, fight them in the general election,and God forbid she is elected, fight her everyday she is in office. It is unlikely that John McCain could beat even Hubert Humphrey; it is almost impossible to think he can beat his friend Hillary.
I agree Jim Noble!
It’s way too dangerous to play this game with the Clintons. The best time to beat the Clintons is the first available opportunity.
This is how I see it as well. Not all liberals are equal. There are things about Hillary as president that are far more troubling than just her liberalism.
I am almost considering voting for Hillary in the primaries if the GOP race is over.
I think McCain at least has a 30% chance at beating Hillary, just because Hillary's negatives are so high. McCain has almost a zero percent chance at Obama unless Obama really blunders, which is still possible.
Well said.
In addition, she will use her machine to cement her (and her successor’s) power such that American conservatism will never see the light of day ever again.
McCain or Obama will be 4 years of the flu. Clinton will be terminal cancer.
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28795&only&rss
h/t LGF
She must be stopped NOW! Can’t take the chance of it going any farther.
Clinton is the best candidate if you liked Lyndon Johnson. Obama is the best candidate if you liked Jimmy Carter.
One possibility: Obama is clearly the choice of the majority of Democrat voters prior to the convention, and a quiet deal is cut: Clinton steps side in return for the promise of a SC nomination.
“Clinton steps side in return for the promise of a SC nomination.”
Now that you put it that way, I’d rather she be president.
Absolutely, America will survive Obama, but may not survive those two criminals Clintons. Rapist-In-Chief in WH again.... I have nightmares every night now.
Republicans should root for a conservative in their own party and not worry about which social/liberal the dims choose.
We have enough problem getting our "liberal leaders" out of the job of hand-picking our candidate for us.
Lastly, a conservative primary leader will pump all of us up and have a reason to get out and vote, not find reasons to stay home on election day.
Before that nomination fight was over, senators would have returned to beating each other half to death on the floor of the chamber.
IMO, you have to seriously consider the possibility though - politically Democrat strategists could see the nomination fight as a win/win.
The way it looks seems to be: Hillary will get the majority of the female vote (at least the feminists and women who will vote for her just because she is a woman). Obama will get the majority of black vote - in his case, just because of race.
No matter how it might be denied, this campaign is all about race and gender for the Democrats. That leaves what majority vote to send McCain to the Oval Office? He does not have the conservative base supporting him; he has alineated the majority of the Republican party. Most blacks and women will vote Democratic (no matter how they are registered). With either of those two as the final Democrat candidate McCain just cannot win.
The GOP should have anticipated this long ago and solicitated a better candidate, or at least supported one who could win, i.e. Thompson or Hunter against the Democrats. Instead we were left with choices that have no chance in defeating the Democrats. We had too many candidates and none were exciting, new, or appealing to the audiences that Hillary and Obama have captured.
I am thinking this is exactly as the Democrats planned. Two polarizing candidates - yet, two who will actually unite all Democrats because of the vote either will bring to the party, while the Republicans are split apart and so fractioned they will never get the plurality in the final election. I think their tactic is working!
Absolutely Correct !!!
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