I don't doubt he can beat either Hitlery or Osama, however that is not going to make November suck any less.
I'm sorry, DAT, but I must disagree......McCain is the darling of the MSM today, but when the nomination is sown up, the press will beat him like a "rented mule"......they will turn on him like a pack of rabid dogs......
We will have to suffer through the Keating Five business over and over, as well as every other controversial stand that he has ever made......
I think he will lose big in November......I might be wrong, but this reminds me of 1996 all over again......
doc
Doc, I think he 'can' beat either of them, not that he necessarily
will. Much depends on how much the two Donks kick and bite each other before we get to the end. While I think it is very unlikely they could go on the same ticket after all the bloodletting (most of which is still to come) I think if they do, we're toast, since their negative demographics would cancel out.
My politically incorrect analysis:
McCain:Strong with the hotly-contested social moderates, however these are a largely-indifferent-to-anything-except-what's-for-dinner group and being for a decisive conclusion to the Iraq war doesn't play well with them because, well, it's decisive, which is the antithesis of their world view.
Weak with Social and Fiscal Conservatives, though most of them may be able to hold their noses and force themselves to vote for him, however unenthusiastically, though a lot of that depends on what transpires between now and November.
Obama:Strong with the far Left, or at least a lot stronger with it than anyone else. The guy has great charisma, basically ten times what any other candidate does, and the press is in love with him, despite the fact he is absolutely clueless; no platform, no ideas, just a Presence...but therefore an absolutely formidable candidate across many demographics in our mediacentric culture. His ability to bring the Black vote doesn't add anything in the general election since it's a Dem plantation bloc anyway.
Weak with Hispanics, who as a demographic aren't keen on Blacks, which is a problem since the Hispanics (outside of parts of Florida) are a Dem plantation vote. Will they go over to McCain, who is slack on immigration? Could be, they're likely to at least be neutralized as a bloc over this though. White blue collar Dem working class voters are also a lot more unenlightened about the whole race thing for my dollar than anyone wants to admit, but that appears to be a Forbidden Zone for anyone to actually say out loud.
Hitlery:Strong with women, and of course with Hispanics over Obama. Also no real platform or ideas put forward, but out of calculation rather than incomprehension. If she can find something that 66% of the population really wants, she will be 100% for it and will produce evidence that she has always held that position and in fact comes from a line of people who are hereditary believers in it...even if that thing was batshit crazy and laced with obvious self-destroying logical flaws. Like Obama, however, she is likely to find out that the lowest tier of Democrats are not nearly so enlightened as the party leadership wants to think, except in this case it involves sexism rather than racism.
Weak with Blacks in the end if she tears into Obama tooth and nail to win the Primaries, a counterpoint to Obama's Hispanic problem; easy to hate since she is so transparently manipulative and ill-tempered (the cackle hardly counts as a show of good humor). Not clear how many more times she can play the crying card without looking too PMSy to be entrusted with the nukes but it plays well with a majoirty of women which is basically setting men's perception of them back about 40 years.
