Democratic chaos
Published Wed, Mar 5 2008 9:51 AM
Technorati Tags: Elections, Republicans, Democrats, Politics
With Hillary Clinton winning Texas and Ohio's primaries last night the only thing certain about the Democratic race is that we've got a few more months of listening to them attack each other. They won't be attacking each other on anything substantive though. They're both too much alike for that.
Instead, we're going to hear more about how "experienced" Mrs. Clinton is and how "inexperienced" the back-bencher from Illinois with no significant accomplishments is. We're going to hear and see accusations of racial distortions. We're going to continue to hear about how women are upset with Hillary's lack of support.
We're going to continue to not hear anything concrete behind Mr. Obama's proposed "change". We're going to continue to wonder whether or not it's really Bill Clinton running using Hillary as a surrogate.
I still think that Barack Obama's going to win the Democratic nomination. I said before that I didn't think that Hillary's winning Texas and Ohio is enough of a momentum shift for her to win the nomination. Still, she's winning the "bigger states" as this map on the New York Time's web site shows.
Meanwhile with Mike Huckabee finally dropping out of the race John McCain can concentrate on trying to appear less of a Democrat than he really is. Now that he doesn't have to focus on defeating a fellow Republican he can start trying to find ways to show the electorate that he's not a Democrat.
A few more months of Democratic candidates beating each other up in the news? I could live with that. They won't be able to spend as much time focusing on their real opponent until summertime. I just wish I could more enthusiastically support him.
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ablur responded with:
 | Let them beat on one another and spend all their campaign money. Maybe they will drain the liberal coffers to such a degree there won't be any fight left.
McCain has been moving farther and farther to the liberal side every year. In another four years he will probably be competing with Obama for the most liberal.
Looking pretty sad for America after the next election. |
John Masters responded with:
 | I agree with you totally here.
I do think that Hillary has a better chance at taking more super delegates than Obama now. Winning these three out of four states yesterday will, I think, go a long way in keeping the undecided super delegates from committing to one or the other.
At that point, I think the Clinton, old-school Democratic political machine has a bit better of a chance at snagging super delegates.
Either way, I'm glad to see that McCain has clear sailing for a couple of months. I think he's going to need it. The Democratic turnout so far has been amazing. They have put unbelievable numbers of voters out there, which could doom McCain by sheer numbers. |
Perri Nelson responded with:
 | The Democratic turnout so far could be due to three things that I can think of...
1. Youthful exuberance thanks to the attractiveness of the "change" candidate. Young people always get excited by nebulous promises of change, any change.
2. Excitement over the possibility of a Woman or a Black man winning the nomination, and possibly the Presidency.
3. The Rush Limbaugh effect. As I understand it, Rush was suggesting that Republican and conservative voters vote in those primaries and vote for Hillary. So some of those "Democratic" voters might just be "Republicans" looking to influence who the Republican candidate will have to run against since his candidacy is no longer in doubt and really hasn't been for a while, despite Huckabee's persistence up until last night.
Still, it's not looking good for conservatives in this election. McCain's liberal slide could well depress Republican turnout in the general election and we'll be faced with a socialist for a President. |
Angel responded with:
 | yikes Perri..who could possibly vote for Shrillary!:) |
Perri Nelson responded with:
| Angel,
Do you mean to tell me you didn't hear Ann Coulter on Sean Hannity's show a couple of days ago? She said "Hillary's our girl!"
I think she's so anti-McCain that she's forgotten all the things she wrote about Hillary Clinton and the former panderer in chief. |
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