Mar 04 2008
McCain & Clinton’s Super Tuesday
Watched the returns from Reston, VA. McCain sews up the GOP nomination and Hillary is the come back kid. With OH and RI in her corner Clinton wins enough to go on. And I suspect she will eek out a win in TX. Right now I would prefer the vacuous phenom Obama up against McCain. But it looks like the Dems are heading to a brokered convention – which is all good for the GOP. Mike Huckabee ran a great race and he should be shoe-in in 2012 or 2016. My hat is off to the man for making the GOP tolerable again.
Addendum: Well the dems are still heading to their convention crack up with Clinton winning OH, TX and RI yesterday. In a total mess in TX Clinton won the primary and popular vote 51-47, and this morning the WaPo has Obama up 52-48 in the caucus count (36% reporting). My predictions were right this time (have to be lucky at least some times) and I believe I was right when I said Obama peaked too early and his campaign of sweetness and light was starting to get old. Those of us who said Clinton was not through yet knew she and her husband will do anything to win.
And so now comes the let down for the Obama groupies. Their hopes are being dashed not by their enemies – those evil republicans – but by those power hungry traitors in their own party. You can feel the frustration rising on both sides. Here is someone over at DailyKos clearly angry at Hillary for winning:
Mccain and the GOP were the ones who were REALLY partying it up last night.
Obama will now probably head negative.
while Mccain builds his base and attacks both and uses whatever they throw at each other.Hillary winning last night was about the worst possible outcome. the Delegate count was about even meaning Obama is still way ahead and now with only 600 left Hillary needs 385 or 61% of them to get back even. though she won Texas and Ohio did she ever break 55% in the big states? no.
meaning Hillary can’t actually catch back up in the Delegate count, Obama is not going to just let her be negative against him while he does nothing. so now for 7 weeks Hillary has insured that the democrats will destory each other. and make no mistake she STILL wont win the nomination.
That last prediction is not very solid in my mind. The convention is where the Clinton power will be at its maximum against a junior, one term senator from Illinois. Neither Clinton nor Obama can win the nomination now. And who has the most pledged delegates don’t matter under Democrats’ socialist rules.
What will happen is not that the candidates go negative – their rabid followers will be so angry they will start slighting the opposition. How do you think a Hillary supporter feels about this guy’s comments? Check out the comments to his post. The infighting is just beginning and will rage all summer.
And it will rage because too many on the left are simply naive about power in DC. Check this out:
Despite her primary wins yesterday, Hillary Clinton faces insurmountable odds against having enough convention delegates to win the nomination unless she resorts to destructive backroom arm twisting and dirty dealing to try to get over the top.
While Clinton is right to declare that it’s not over until it’s over, she did recapture some of her base in yesterday’s contests and her showing in Ohio was impressive, it is indeed over. The sooner that she can fashion a graceful exit the better that she, the Democratic Party and those of us already asking hard questions about a Barack Obama-John McCain showdown will be.
How naive can you get? Clinton bow out? Of course this is coming down to back room arm twisting and shady promises. Wake up people – this is the most powerful job on the planet and people like the Clinton’s don’t give up for the good of anyone else.
75,
Ah, you forget though that many here aren’t republicans. Of course we would hope that other republicans wouldn’t buy into the plan so easily…but the moderates and independents? They are the easiest mark. And now they’re whining that we have McCain and blaming the very Republicans that have been fighting against him for years. Seems awfully Clintonesque to me.
Whippet, are you insinuating that mods and indies are more susceptible to media misinformation? Because if that theory is correct, could we not expect their handpicked candidate to be similarily trusting as well? Wouldn’t that also mean that such a “maverick” might support unconstitutional campaign finance reform that would empower that very media? Why, the very media who made him such a darling to the mods and indies to begin with? The very media, in fact, who might, oh, just for arguments sake, turn on him the minute he became the republican candidate?
If “fool me once” is their fault, and “fool me twice” is our fault, then apparently, “fool me all the time” is Rush’s fault.
Whippet, are you insinuating that mods and indies are more susceptible to media misinformation? Because if that theory is correct, could we not expect their handpicked candidate to be similarily trusting as well? Wouldn’t that also mean that such a “maverick” might support unconstitutional campaign finance reform that would empower that very media? Why, the very media who made him such a darling to the mods and indies to begin with? The very media, in fact, who might, oh, just for arguments sake, turn on him the minute he became the republican candidate?
If “fool me once” is their fault, and “fool me twice” is our fault, then apparently, “fool me all the time” is Rush’s fault.
75
I can write a book on McCain. I belched the loudest for years. I do not even give him credit for some of the things that AJ does. But I agree wholeheartly about the Purists creating this mess.
I am a Republican. I rooted for Reagan all the way. Ditto Bush.
Question for you and Whippet………how do you classify the President? Is he Conservative enough for you? Or is he a RINO?
You know it all started over that question if you cut through the clutter.
Owl, I would say Bush falls somewhere between conservative and Rino. He’s not conservative enough for me but hasn’t quite earned the RINO tab. Just my opinion, of course.
But Bush’s situation is entirely different from McCain’s. Bush had the war thrust upon him. Certainly that can wreck any fiscal plans one may have had.
But it occurred to me, Owl…that if you’ve also been warning the masses about McCain for years now, that would put you in the same purists camp that you blame for “creating this mess”.
“Physician, heal thyself”