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We Have Been Blessed With A Wonderful Candidate
As an ardent Barack Obama supporter, I believe we have been blessed with a wonderful candidate. That candidate, of course, is John McCain. He is turning out to be possibly the most inept, incapable campaigner I have seen in my life. He's old as dirt, he can't deliver a speech to save his life, conservatives hate him, the RNC is increasingly embarrassed by him, and his campaign has been a nearly endless series of equivocations, reversals and apologies.
Let's hope that the buyer's remorse take hold until it's way too late. Otherwise, the Republicans may just try to find a way to run him out of the race and put someone else in his place. Not that they have any better choices.
Oh, what a wonderful time to be a Democrat!
Comments (20)
I'm sure that there is a lot of head-scratching going on in the GOP right now. Ha!
June 4, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLice.
June 4, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obvious correction:
Let's hope that the buyer's remorse does not take hold until it's way too late.
-ed.
June 4, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not so sure...Hillary supporters are doing the RNCs job for them. Have you seen this new post by a supposed "Hillary supporter" claiming that Obama flip flopped in his speech on Israel?
We could win this in a landslide if the freaking disgruntled HRC supporters don't stop the bullshit.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/06/obama-already-flipflopping-on.php
June 4, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Look, it doesn't matter any more whether these attacks come from professed McCain supporters or alleged Hillary diehards.
The election campaign is on. Obama is the candidate.
His critics are de-facto Republicans.
Fight the allegations, claims and smears on their merits.
June 4, 2008 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent advice. If I could recommend a comment, I would.
June 4, 2008 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I enjoyed the 1st two sentences of your post!
But let's keep things clear:
John McCain came back from the dead to win his party's nomination. For better or worse, that's something that Hillary wasn't able to do -- and she hadn't been written off the way McCain was.
There would be nothing so stupid as to play this GE out as the Rabbit and the Tortoise.
Or your your case the Rabbit nee Cat and the Tortoise.
Fight the fight as McCain is the best campaigner on Earth. That will guarantee victory in November.
June 4, 2008 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. But McCain really does suck.
June 4, 2008 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clearthinker, you mean "as if ... ."
I almost read that sentence literally.
June 4, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, the typos that change meaning... gotta love them.
You are, of course, correct. I don't know who the best campaigner on Earth is, but I'm pretty sure it's not McCain!
June 4, 2008 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Watching his speech last night was so torturous. This guy is so wrong for so many reasons. I don't understand these Hillary Clinton supporters that see a jump to McCain as even a consideration.
June 4, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez said on CNN last night that McCain's speech was like a bingo game at an AARP convention.
June 4, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
You give McCain far too much credit. Do you remember the Republican primaries? It was like a hit parade of incompetent buffoons. It's not so much that McCain won the primary, as that he happened to be the last man standing, the least unpalatable among the distasteful choices of the conservative base.
Which is not to say that we should right him off: to the contrary, distrust of Democrats seems to be an abiding concern among a near majority of the population. Conservatives have been voting against the Democratic candidate more than they have been voting for the Republican, at least for the past several election cycles. But don't kid yourself: McCain's win is not evidence of some special skill on the campaign trail.
June 4, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, Clearthinker, that was obviously in reference to your post above.
June 4, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wouldn't it be better to left him off?
June 4, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Meanie. Go ahead, make fun of the little baby. But I bet YOU didn't know how to spell when you were six months old.
June 4, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was about to say something similar, this is a leftie board after all... but I bow to your quicker fingers codegen.
June 4, 2008 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I dunno... that field was crowded and well-funded.
I do not view McCain as the equivalent of Dukakis (who ran because he was last man standing).
But maybe you'll be able to yelp at me in 5 months: "I told you so!"
June 4, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans can't be serious. It's like they want to lose.
June 4, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
John Eskow on Huffington Post:
"Seventeen Tired White People In a Room: John McCain Gives the Single Worst Speech In the History of American Politics"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-eskow/seventeen-tired-white-peo_b_105071.html
June 4, 2008 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
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