It gets worse....
The Dem leadership is lock and step with putting Hillary as the candidate for '08-- but
the GOP is determined to shove McCain down our throats and use Hillary as a scare tactic to keep us on the reservation...
they think that it is McCain's TURN (read RIGHT) to be the GOP candidate in '08....
supposedly Newt is going to announce weather or not he will run in September....With all the information I have-- I believe they are just "allowing Newt" until December to try his best to make some headway with the 2/3 of Dems that are frustrated with the Dems being too liberal....
The way I see it...they know that 2/3 of Dems think that their leadership is too Liberal...they know that 2/3 of Repubs think their leadership is too liberal...
So know it is a race to the middle-- scare tactics for the American people on both sides, etc.....
You can see what Newt is trying to do-- he is trying to counter the "blue dog" Dem strategy that the Dems used in the last election.....but mark my words-- the GOP has already crowned McCain...and they have prepared the ammo against Rudy, Mitt, and Newt.....
THe Dems have already crowned Hillary, and they have Clinon people encamped in the NON-Hillary Dem camp already...
Hoping You are dead-bass wrong! but there certainly is a distorted logic there.
Sorry light of my life but that assessment is without any merit. I do agree that the best odds, if you were to bet, would be to bet Hillary as the next President but neither McCain nor Newt will be her 2008 foe. Newt really does not want to do it. He has so convinced himself he is the "savior" of America's future he wants to play man behind the curtain pulling the strings, not actually have to be the guy making the decisions.
McCain does not poll at all well at the grass roots level. He has not won a single Republican state wide straw poll. Not one. Not one Republican Convention or traditional Republican supporting group convention has backed him. AS usual the Junk Media continually hyping of their junk media polls keeps confusing things. The Republican party, NOT the US News media, nominates their candidate.
There is no smoky back room where the party bosses anoint the chosen one in US Politics anymore. That pure Tin Foil hat Pat Buchanan style nonsense. If the Party Chiefs COULD pick their chosen one, it would be Rudy G, NOT McCain in any case. McCain is too old, too politically compromised, while Rudy is such a nice shinny nationally know "heroic" RINO. No dear heart, it will NOT be John McCain in 2008. Niether will it be Newt.
It will be President Hillary in 2008. Considering the utter inability of the "Conservative" media to actually support things, rather then just endlessly whine, linked to the Obnoxious Media Establishment complete betrayal of it suppose Journalistic ethics, there is NO hope for a Center-Right National Candidate in 2008 unless he can out Reagan Reagan. In a 24 hour hour new cycle the chances of that are slim to none.