Have I mentioned lately that Republicans don't like John McCain? He survived the Old White Dude derby to become the candidate, but he only did so because the other candidates were even more objectionable, he had higher name recognition, and the FisCons poisoned all but the South against Mike Huckabee. So here he is, your really bad candidate... A different Bay Buchanan than the one who defends McCain on TV weighs in, pointing out that because of McCain's deficiencies, there really is one question in the November election: are you with Barack Obama or are you against him:
It’s finally over: the mother of all primaries has done her job reducing the field to two. But in reality there is only one candidate. Barack Obama. In November he will win or he will lose.
John McCain is relevant only in so far as he is not Barack Obama. The Senator from Arizona is incapable of energizing his party, brings no new people to the polls, and has a personality that is best kept under wraps. And while his strong suite is experience, especially on military matters, it was gained almost entirely in Washington, a city that 80% of Americans now believe has miserably misled and mismanaged the nation.
Since McCain has become the presumptive nominee, I have spoken at more than two dozen Republican gatherings. The sentiment everywhere can best be summarized in the words of one of the activists, “No matter who wins in November, we lose.”
Some pundits are suggesting that because Obama is having difficulty attracting Hillary’s women and Reagan’s Democrats that John McCain could pick them up. Not on the issues he can’t. Hillary’s women are big government feminists who are not going to be particularly impressed with McCain’s commitment to conservatives to appoint Scalia-like judges. (It was a commitment, wasn’t it?)
As for the Reagan Democrats they tend to be socially conservative, economically nationalist, working class white voters. McCain, on the other hand, continues to defend the very trade policies that have sent their jobs overseas. And he further alienated these Americans with his open border immigration policies that depressed their wages with cheap labor and ignored their plight while catering to the 20 million living here illegally.
So if he isn’t going to attract these voters with the issues and we know it won’t be with his charm, how does he do it? He doesn’t. Obama does. ...
Bay goes on to say that Obama must find a way to bring the women who felt "as entitled as Hillary" to the nomination into his tent, and must do the same with Hispanics, who in some parts have tension with African-Americans. And she says he has to return to the spark he somehow lost in between 20,000 screaming fan rallies... OK... she concludes this way:
By November there will be two Obamas. The articulate, attractive, dynamic candidate who inspired the nation with his message of hope and would be the first African American President and the anti-war, left-wing, inexperienced black candidate with a patriotism problem.
It’s all up to Obama now -- and a few 527s.
Obama, I'm not worried about. But Team Obama had better brace themselves for those 527s...
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