Posted on 09/10/2008 10:20:11 PM PDT by Chet 99
Barack Obama has turned into Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and Al Gore. Sarah Palin has turned into Ronald Reagan.
Thus the electoral map looks fairly typically red where it counts and blue where it doesn't.
Ohio and Florida show up red, which, unless Colorado and Nevada and New Mexico flip en masse from red to blue and are bigger than I think, pretty much means the old ballgame.
Democrats win the cities. John McCain and the moosehunter take all that space in between.
For all the talk of newness and history-making, we've seen this presidential race before.
Democrats are burdened with a mealy-mouthed, message-conflicted, reactive, apologizing, conflict-averse nominee. He goes into a prevent defense on Labor Day, at which point the Republicans commence traipsing up and down the field hitting wide-open receivers.
For their part, Republicans suddenly are all fired up again about those supposedly outsider and right-wing reforms they incessantly talk about but never actually get done, such as fiscal responsibility and an end to abortion and the deployment of military that makes quick work of any and all adversaries.
As things appear today, Palin, of whom we'd heard nothing two weeks ago, stands to be a septuagenarian heartbeat from the Oval Office.
Let's start with Obama's ineptitude, so profound lately that we can surely look for him to show up any minute helmeted in a tank or wind-surfing or smother-kissing his spine-crushed wife.
One thing Democrats stand for -- or so we thought -- is raising taxes on these relatively few persons with extreme high incomes. After all, these wealthy elite reaped inordinate personal benefits from the across-the-board Republican tax cuts, which, in turn, have exploded the deficit that Bill Clinton erased and replaced with a surplus.
So now Obama says he may not immediately let those high-income tax cuts expire, owing to the troubled economy and all.
One thing Democrats stand for -- or we thought -- is ending the war in Iraq. So now Obama says the surge is working.
One thing Democrats stand for -- or so we thought -- was a well-articulated position to protect a woman's right to choose abortion. So now Obama says the morality of the abortion issue is "above my pay grade." Then he says he doesn't like the way he put that.
Please -- somebody send for Hillary, quick.
On the Republican side comes this vice presidential nominee who, excepting two years as governor of a remote, sparsely populated state, owes her political experience to rezoning issues as mayor of an Alaskan village of fewer than 10,000.
Remarkably, she has, in those two weeks, single-handedly reassembled the decisive Reagan coalition.
That conservative coalition forged under Reagan had been destroyed by the blundering of George W. Bush. Fiscal conservatives didn't like the exploding deficits and the wasteful spending. Religious conservatives liked the Supreme Court nominees, but doubted whether George W. and Karl Rove were altogether genuine. Defense conservatives couldn't much cotton to a woefully misbegotten invasion of Iraq.
Thus dissipated, the conservative movement found itself forced to live with the Republican presidential nomination, in McCain, of a moderate and maverick who'd never been one of them. Republicans were disconnected, uninspired, depressed, bound for defeat, maybe even irrelevance.
Then McCain chose as his running mate a tough-talking Assembly of God woman from Alaska who shoots guns and asserts, albeit dishonestly, that she has opposed wasteful pork-barrel spending in her state.
Conservatives thought they were dead. Now they've been brought back to life by what looks and acts like Reagan's daughter, or, actually, granddaughter.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
So now Obama says he may not immediately let those high-income tax cuts expire, owing to the troubled economy and all.
maybe because there’s no point in antagonizing the rich elitists from the coasts who hate Palin. They are the only base left and he needs to keep them.
This requires a semi-barf alert.
Whole article is full of barbs at the republicans.
Looks like the RATS are going to try attack Cindy McCain next with a bogus story about her being addicted to prescription drugs.
There’s a headline posted at WAPO but it’s blank. Here’s the gab if anyone has the stomach.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3971281
mark
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
yes this is clearly a liberal POV. He’s teed off that the democrats have turned into a pile of mush while the conservatives are energized.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
My main reason for voting for McCain is, I don’t want a repeat of seven years ago to day!
Thats a very old story about Cindy when she was addicted to pain killers. Its true but its about 13 yrs ago. If they can’t beat up Palin I guess they have to move to Mrs. Mccain.
I wont be comfortable until a poll comes out of Colorado with McCain leading.
Well, I’m cautiously optimistic about the election, but not ready yet to lump Obama in with Mondale, Dukakis, Mcgovern, etc. Let’s see the situation on the morning of November 5th. I have a feeling this will be a close election, and don’t want to under estimate Obama.
Whole article is full of barbs at the republicans.
I agree, but it is nice to know they have begun preparing for their defeat.
I went to that link, and even many of the DUmmies are admitting it is bogus, and the whole thing is old news in any event.
Got any proof that she was dishonest?....Didn't think so..
so much for focusing on the issues.
and when they do try to talk about the issues, they try to sneak around and equivocate instead of giving a straight answer. They know that if they come straight out and say they’re for raising taxes and taking guns away, they’ll lose.
Boy he got that right. It's going to be pretty disappointing if this is all smoke and mirrors from the Republicans....again.
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