“With Congress’s approval at 12% and gas at $4, McCain’s strategy is clear”
Run against congress? Where has he been for the last 20 years? He has ONE shot; gas stays high, he hammers Obama on the drilling and refining and nuke plants. It also wouldn’t hurt if he picked a hard right VP.
Al that happens and he has a CHANCE.
A real hard right. We need to get serious about other forms of energy too.
The key is to explain that merely authorizing the drilling offshore would drive the price down immediately because the speculators are betting that Congress will not authorize the drilling. If Congress does authorize the drilling, there will be a stampede to sell the oil futures, thus driving the price per barrel, and at the pump, down.
Obama is spouting the Marxist line that authorizing the drilling will have no effect on oil prices for years. This would be true only if there were shortages, which there are not. This price spike is driven by speculation, which is based on the theory that drilling will not expand. It is not driven by shortages. If drilling appears to be on the horizon, this will change the mindset of the market, to wit: the speculators. And they will bid the price back down, for fear that a glut of oil in the near future will cause their oil futures to be worthless, thereby ruining them.
He has it made actually. The media, in their fight against Bush, labeled him a maverick who bucked the Washington establishment. Now he can literally run against Obama, congress AND Bush.
Honestly, despite what the polls may show, McCain is possibly in the strongest position possible.
Which potential hard right VP is your favorite? Or more than one if you have a list.