Although he'll have to wait until January 2009 to move his things into the White House, Senator McCain has become the next President of the United States. The race can be called today, February 17, 2008.
Just a few short months ago it would have been laughable to say that the Republicans can feel certain about keeping the White House. With the war going 'badly,' as many have put it, with President Bush's poll numbers at historical lows, with a cranky economy about to be pushed into full fledged foulness by the mortgage meltdown, and with many saying that the Republican party was lost and in need of a rebirth, a Democratic victory in 2008 was thought to be a sure thing.
But over the past few weeks (mostly the last few days) we have witnessed something of a freak show in the Democratic party that has pretty much placed Senator McCain in the Oval Office several months ahead of schedule.
And here's why.
Senator Barack Obama came out of nowhere, with near nothing, preaching hope and change, and rocketed up the approval charts among whites, blacks, and young voters. Meanwhile the stumbling, scrambling, tripping, fall of Senator (Inevitable) Clinton has her staff and supporters staring blankly with their mouths wide open.
So in the last few days his momentum continues to build and her demise is looking so real that she is vowing to win the nomination even if it has to be through corraling Super Delegates. If she does that, she will have lost the White House to Senator McCain. As I said in an earlier post, the black voters and young voters will turn their backs on her. Today I'm adding many white Democratic voters to that group.
Her promise to use Super Delegates to win has many in her party spitting mad. They would vote McCain, or just stay home. If she wins the nomination properly, she loses the general election because Senator McCain will simply be viewed, by many in both parties, as the better choice.
Now, if the charismatic young Senator from Illinois wins the nomination, McCain wins in November. You see, at some point between now and November, the comparisons between McCain and Obama are going to become too apparent. While the young Senator is inspirational and has charged up this election year like no one has ever seen, he cannot overcome what the older voters, in his party and the other one, will ultimately see as too little real world experience. And they will look at Senator McCain and see an honest and fair-minded centrist with decades of experience.
The choice for the voters will be too clear.
1 comment:
I agree that senator McCain is elected president a little early. He should wait at least 40 more years. After all many countries have experienced leaders old enough not to remember in which part of the country they are having a speech while he is having it. The good side is that he will solve the immigration problem by staying long enough in a war to bankrupt the country. Nobody will want to immigrate in the US , but in reverse , many will leave. This will make the houses on the market even more affordable. Not to go over all the benefits McCain’s presidency, I will conclude that the two party political structure is not much better than one party system. Especially if a person ends up hating one of the sides for being too “communist” and is forest to vote for whatever joke the other comes up.
:)) Nik
P.S.
One definition of “Choice” is to see what option A is, then to see what option B is , and to create your own option C. Without the last , everything is “cover your eyes so I can better lie to you what’s around.” ( a gypsy proverb)
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