12 posts tagged “republican”
Another blogger recently made some very good comments about third party candidates on one of my blogs. The basic point was that having a competitive third party candidate most often will not get that person elected but slip the votes between that person and the other party closest to what they stand for.
If that third party candidate leans a little left the votes would split between that person and the Democratic candidate. If the third party candidate leans a little to the right the votes would be split between that person and the Republican candidate. The split would allow the unified vote on the other side of the spectrum to win the election and reduce that third party candidate to the role of spoiler and never really lead to a successful candidate.
In thinking about this, I find the evidence to support this hypothesis to be very strong. This is worrisome to me. The party system we have in place is clearly broken and these facts clearly show that there is no hope otherwise.
Maybe if there were to just be one other serious party (along with all of those minor parties that get like one to two percent of the vote every four years) that represented the area closer to the middle. Not too right, not too left, just in the area near the middle.
Obviously, there would be conflicts within this party on some issues and some areas that members of this party could possibly never agree upon, but this party would best represent the average American.
I also think that two serious contenders for the title of president is clearly not enough. The only alternatives we are left with are ridiculously irrelevant and a waste of our time.
The only way there will really be change is if the voters come together and vote for someone else from another party who represents the overall values of the people. That would first require a highly qualified candidate that would attract all of these voters form both ends of the spectrum and was different enough from the other candidates to really represent change.
The sad fact id that I personally have not seen a person even close to this and I think that the other candidates who are running are in fact simply the spoilers who will devour the campaigns of the parties they used to belong to.
All this talk of “flip-flopping” and supporting evidence from everywhere; can we trust either of these people? What is going on? It’s like there is a flip-flop fever going around.
The camps of both major party’s hopefuls for president have been ramping up the rhetoric about the other candidate’s “flip-flops” and inconsistencies. When one follows the facts, the truth is that both candidates have had major flip-flops over the past year. Flip-flops big enough to make one wonder; “Who the heck are these people and what do they stand for?”
The truth of the matter is that June and July historically are the months when candidates retool their message and their stands to move a little closer to the center and away from the extreme ends of their party’s ideals to appeal to larger voting segments.
What makes it different this year? I think there are two things that are different.
I think with Senator Obama, his voting record shows him to be almost as far to the left as one can be, while his rhetoric, campaigning, and speeches make him appear to be very close to the middle and as “The Candidate of Change.” There a already many huge question marks about who he really is to begin with without him changing the message again.
For Senator McCain, he already has done more and more to alienate the far right within his party over the past eight or nine years and who he really is also warrants a huge question mark from his would be supporters. Many of the things he stands for and represents already is a hard sell to people in the middle or on the right at any level. Keep in mind that he represents the same party as the largely unpopular current president which makes his candidacy a hard sell as it is. He has somehow got to get the support of the right and the middle at the same time when both are skeptical to begin with and he is even going so far as to try to draw from the right betting on the fallout from the Democratic primaries. For those who are not already set on a candidate or a party (voting for a candidate simply because of party affiliation at this point in history with all that could happen over the next four years is not only stupid but grossly negligent) his message seems to be all over the map and makes him even less understandable to us.
The other reason I think this is such a big deal this year is the fact that there are more mediums that will verify what they are saying and more people who are apt to research such things.
How many of us have heard something stated by one of the candidates and then by the next day heard and read a firestorm of contradictions stated by the same person as noted on “factcheck.org” or other such organizations.
What I am saying is that the microscope has grown more powerful for this year’s elections and the candidates are under much more focused scrutiny. I suspect that if previous candidates had been under the same level of scrutiny as the current candidates history would be vastly different.
Are the candidates “flip-flopping” and still undefined? Absolutely! Are these candidates distancing themselves from their own past stands and voting records? Absolutely? When I look at both of their past stands and voting records, this is not really a bad thing if we are talking about a true change of heart.
The problem is, will this newly retooled and refined candidate show up in the Whitehouse if elected president or is it all for votes? I for one sure do like the candidates’ campaign faces a lot better than what the facts show.
California Assembly Bill 1819, is a plan to get sixteen and seventeen year old voters to preregister to vote. This means that these teens would automatically be registered and sent the sample ballots when they are eighteen. This bill has passed the assembly and is currently in the senate.
Here is the interesting part: The vote in Assembly split right down party lines with Democrats voting for it and Republicans voting against.
I listened to and read some of the debate for and against this bill and I see merit in both sides of the argument. I am still undecided on what I think of this idea.
The thing that struck me in all of this is that the Republican Party in California is in such fear of the late teen voters. I know that whoever it is that controls the youth controls the future. Judging by the results of this vote, I am left to wonder if the future holds a one party system for California.
It would seem that the Republican Party needs to do some kind if image make over if the general feel of the party (at least in California) is that an entire generation will be their undoing as soon as they decide to vote. I am also stunned at the fact that the only plan to combat this is to keep this whole group from voting as long as possible. That’s it, the whole plan?
The Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, seems to be doing okay and managed to get elected in the first place. I understand that he started as a public figure, but the state seems to be within the realm of a balance of power between the parties. It seems like with a little work the Republican Party could restore the balance. This work may be with those same youth that would be registering under what is outlined in this bill.
As a person who does not like the current party system and all of the partisanship, I have to admit that a one party system made up of one or the other of the major parties really scares me.
I am worried that one whole party is scared of the youth thinking about voting. I am still deciding what I think of this bill.
What is going on in the presidential race? Democratic Senator Barack Obama went at republican Senator John McCain with both guns blazing in discussing the economy and I began to think: “Finally, we will get to the real issues.”
Boy oh boy was I mistaken. I was all ready for Senator McCain (who is now known for being weak on matters of the economy at the worst time ever for that to be the case) to get with his advisors and start devising strong solutions for our economic woes. Then I pictured this huge back and forth campaigning where two different plans that would both make some sense would be brought before the American people and we would all be thinking; “Wow, what great candidates.”
This however, was not what happened. Senator McCain went back to that absolutely stupid “Gas Tax Holiday” idiocy that helped us all understand economy was not his strength. Then Senator Hillary Clinton supported it also and some of the cooties of being economically illiterate seemed to get on her and her campaign.
I thought; “That’s it? All of those campaign strategists and speechwriters and whoever else in his political entourage and that is it?”
But, no it was not. Then he went back to this town hall meeting idea. I admit it is a pretty cool idea, but seriously, one candidate is just going to dictate how another candidate is going to campaign for the entire summer and this other candidate is expected to just agree and go along with this? (Is this one of those places where people on the internet us the letters “LOL?”
I personally believe that both candidates that are left from the two major parties have these gaping holes in their qualifications for president (particularly saying lots of things that neither of their voting records support), but if this is the best Senator McCain can come up with against a person with a gift for speaking and a charisma that attracts so many, Senator McCain will be reduced to a straw man for Senator Obama to knock over.
If there are any advisors to Senator McCain reading this, please gather some experts on the economy and draw up something substantial that will appeal to the public. Then spend some time educating Senator McCain on this plan. Once that is done release him on the public with these fresh new ideas and a solution to a real problem in the here and now. That will make him a solid candidate and definitely make the race more interesting.
I suppose Senator McCain may have such plans and be keeping them hidden is his grand plan to unleash this weapon of mass destruction on Senator Obama during these town hall meetings, but let’s face it, that is not going to happen. An I am not sure if it were to happen that the results would be what Senator McCain expects. I remember a debate between the Republicans that was televised on CNN that had an approval meter that was on the screen the whole time. The relevant fact here is that almost every time Senator McCain spoke the meter shot down. That went double when he got excited or agitated.
I think to win, Senator McCain better come up with more than the stuff he has put out there so far.
If Senator McCain does not retool his message, this will be one of those really boring elections where one candidate just sinks fast as soon as the votes start to be cast. Today I was aghast at his lack of anything to say and found his whole message just plain boring.
I was thinking about our government and the stalemate that we are in and I thought of an analogy. What if the goal of the government next week was to screw in a light bulb.
Senator Obama would give an awesome speech about the equality of all light bulbs and discuss how he is going to get everybody light bulbs if elected.
A certain Mr. Wright would suddenly surface describing how different light bulbs are just different and how Senator Obama had to distance himself from him because of politics.
The media would find every tidbit that could sound strange to listeners from Mr. Wrights speech and play these clips over and over and discuss these clips over and over.
Senator Obama would again try to distance himself from this person.
Senator McCain would ask Senator Obama why he spent so many years in a church with such beliefs about lightbulbs.
Senator Hillary Clinton would have said that Senator Obama does not have enough experience to put in a light bulb and does not really have enough support to screw in a light bulb, but she has finally realized that she is not going to win the Democratic primaries. So now she will say that Senator Obama, her friend, is well equipped to screw in light bulbs. But, she continued to campaign because she felt the American people deserved the best light bulb screwer-inner person that there was and she is that person. The popular vote showed that the American people know who can better screw in a light bulb and voted that way.
Hillary Clinton supporters would say that the media stated that Senator Clinton could not do a good job of screwing in light bulbs because she is a woman and would want her to keep trying to stop Senator Obama from being the one to screw in the light bulb.
Former President Bill Clinton, would start calling members of the press scumbags and other names for the conspiracy against his wife and for using the light bulb as a tool to help Senator Obama get elected. He would later apologize but, Senator Hillary Clintons approval rating would take another hit anyway.
The media would have debates and talk show hosts would rip on different people for not getting the light bulbs in fast enough.
President Bush would tell congress to write a bill stating that the light bulb should be installed. Because the bill idea came from the President, the Democrats would say it is a terrible idea and try to draft their own, somehow different proposal. The Republicans will write a really long version of the bill and have it read aloud to the entire group to irritate the Democrats.
Senator McCain would say nothing about the President Bush idea (because he has to distance himself from the administration). The Senator would get in front of his green background with a small handful of supporters (trying to sound like more than they really are) and give a speech repeatedly saying that the kind of changing of light bulbs that Senator Obama wants to is not change at all. He would then give some reasons why the light bulb that was already there is fine and should stay and then screw up a perfectly good speech by saying it would be okay if the light bulb stayed in for a hundred years.
Senator Obama would reply by saying that Senator McCain just wants to keep changing the light bulbs with the same kind of light bulbs that President George Bush has been putting in which means that electing Senator McCain is just like giving George Bush a third term.
The media would just keep playing clips of Senator John McCain saying he would leave the light bulb in for a hundred years.
The Democrats would fight amongst themselves in drafting their own bill because of the carbon footprint of making the light bulbs and that the light bulbs create. There would be a huge debate on florescent light bulbs and the fact that their disposal is as big a problem as the footprint of regular bulbs.
The tree huggers will protest outside of government buildings demanding that the light bulb not be put in and that the light bulb is destructive (because they heard all of the news reports about the fight the Democrats were having).
I would take one look at all of this, freak out, turn on my computer and type a blog post. This post would talk about how stupid all of this is and how our government is broken etc.
In the end, the light bulb will not get put in. Everyone would still be fighting and the whole government would still be in a stalemate.
Where is (really who is) the person who would just take charge and put the light bulb in. The person who could do what is the best solution to the problem and rally the American people and the media to support what has been done. That person should be president and other like him or her should replace the people that are in our government at all levels.
This is the only way I could think of to describe how ridiculous all of the partisan politics that is going on at this point in history seems to me. There is a lot going on while at the same time nothing is really happening of substance and even less is getting accomplished.
What a Mess!
Our government is caught up in elections, partisan politics, and all other kinds of political blah, blah, blah. The problem is that there are no plans to help American Citizens with the troubles we are having now and our government on all sides is caught up in ridiculous distractions that do absolutely nothing for what is going on with American citizens here and now.
President George Bush did his best with the stimulus package, but by the time the checks are getting to people gas is well over four dollars a gallon and the massive amount of people that are unemployed or in fear of soon being unemployed cannot afford to spend their stimulus checks shopping on frivolous knick-knacks simply to stimulate our economy. This stimulus package was not a great idea and many of us knew it wouldn’t work the way that was planned, but at least it was some attempt at doing something.
President Bush today placed the blame for no other plans squarely on the shoulders of the “Democratic Congress” for not passing his other ideas such as making his tax cuts permanent.
The problem is that the parties are too busy with, ending primaries, preparing for presidential elections, global warming, fuel alternatives that will not be feasible for the average American citizen for five or six years, and so to be worried about such trivial matters as all of us loosing our jobs, spending every dime we have buying gasoline, and loosing our healthcare benefits.
This week we discovered that wealthy people who had good loans (as opposed to a sub-prime loan) were loosing their homes now also (the poster child for this is Ed McMahon of Publishers Sweepstakes and Tonight Show fame), unemployment is again breaking records (at 5.5% according to the Labor Department), the Dow Jones dropped over four-hundred points today, the NASDAQ dropped more than seventy-five points, oil prices broke the one hundred and thirty-seven dollar barrier but is now expected to go over one hundred and fifty dollars a barrel by the Fourth of July, houses are being foreclosed at record levels, the U.S. dollar is hardly worth the paper it is printed on and on and on.
I think I have figured it out, if everybody looses their houses and cannot afford to drive their cars, global warming will be reduced at record levels. The American Public as a whole will be homeless and angry but at least Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize will not have gone to waste.
Our government officials don’t have time to be worrying about what “drama-queen” Hillary Clinton is going to do. We are all eagerly awaiting the moment that she informs us that she has lost a race that we all know she has already lost (all except her and her advisors).
There is endless partisan bickering and finger pointing.
The Democrats are spending all of their time on global warming and trying to prove that the Bush regime did all kinds of secret evils. If he did or didn’t how is that going to help the economy or price of gasoline. The guy is in his last few months, the country is going to a place very close to hell (I suppose partially due to global warming) and more than half of our government is focused on being a lynch mob.
The Republicans are busy having President Bush blame the rest of the government for not pushing through his half-baked ideas (but I have to admit, at least there are some ideas) and the rest of the party is busy separating themselves from the President to try to get Senator John McCain elected.
Senator McCain first said that we should do nothing to help anyone, then he said to do mostly the same stuff that we are doing. Then his party comes out and says; “Well, the economy is not his strength.”
It is beginning to cost more to go to work than people are making, and after these people loose their homes and file bankruptcy, there will really be no need to spend more getting to work than you make when you get there and these people are going to start quitting and looking for government assistance (and unemployment that will be charges to the people they were working for). What then.
I don’t care for or about the parties. I do not care which one of these lackluster candidates becomes president. I don’t care quite as much about what is going to happen five or ten years from now when I have to be concerned if my family and I will survive this year.
I guess in Washington we are simply numbers and statistics unless you are a person running for office. When that is the case we get attention (in the form of lip service) for a few months and then we are again reduced to pawns in a huge game of numbers.
Both of the main candidates are Senators. I think the real race is to see which one can come up with something that can be done now (before that person is elected president or not) to help the American people.
Iraq is a war and clearly is not going anywhere in the next few months. Global warming is the evil to end all evils; I get it! But, it is going to be much more evil for me and my family if as the planet warms I am homeless. I understand that we want to preserve the wilderness and the beautiful places and protect these places from all of the evils of drilling. What is going to happen as the state and federal governments begin to loose funding to protect and maintain these areas because the gasoline is to expensive for their vehicles and they lay off the employees that didn’t already quit because it cost too much to get to work.
All of the stuff they are worrying about are lower on the priority scale and both the Democrats and the Republicans area doing nothing. The Democrats keep saying the Republicans are doing nothing about the economy, while they are doing nothing also. The Republicans are finger pointing because their harebrained ideas are being held up by the Democrats.
It doesn’t matter who is to blame, the question is who is going to actually do something sensible about what is going on here and now.
Imagine a person on a treadmill in workout clothes with a towel around his or her neck. That person has on fancy designer running shoes and has a fancy pants MP3 player. The only problem noticeable when the person is about to turn the treadmill on is that the person is facing the wrong direction reaching backwards to turn the thing on. What is going to happen?
Senator John McCain has just rejected the endorsement of televangelists John Hagee and Rod Parsley. These are very influential right wing leaders and this is an interesting turn of events.
John Hagee was about to be Senator McCain’s version of that Wright person that has caused Senator Obama such trouble after and old tape emerged of him stating that Adolph Hitler was sent by God to help the Jews get to the Promised Land.
The Problem with Rod Parsley has to do with his comments about Islam being a violent religion.
The thing ii, with all of the statements about how he would have never gone to a church like the one Senator Obama went to for all of those years etc., he has absolutely no choice with these major players in the Republican Party but to turn his back on them.
The question is how will this play out for him as he is trying to convince the skeptical party that he is Right Wing enough to be the Republican candidate.
I wonder if the Democrats are thinking that all they have to do is look at every minister or televangelist that begins to support Senator McCain with a microscope and find something negative to put in the media. If they can get Senator McCain to turn his back on every minister that attempts to support him, keeping in mind that the Christian Right Wing is skeptical of him to begin with, it is only a matter of time before they return the favor.
In these cases, he not only turned down their support, but he spoke out against them and their messages publicly. Will they do the same and speak out to their large segments of the community against him.
Isn’t it amazing how this sort of distraction has become the focus of the primaries of both the Democrats and the Republicans? Realistically, a few years ago Senator McCain was screaming to the public about how the Religious Right was such a huge problem in this country, now he is counting on the support of these same people to carry him to the presidency. These people, who were not in his corner to begin with, decided they would stand behind him because he is a Republican even though they were not huge fans.
Well now what happens? He needs the support and the people of whom we speak will not vote for a Democrat and this crazy guy just turned his back on them and then went one step deeper and spoke out against them publicly.
The Republicageddon is near. The Republicans Party is already on the ropes according to the polls and the cracks in the party are starting to grow. The question this election season is really which will come first; the Republicageddon or the implosion of the Democrats (the Democrolypse) with all of this crazy race stuff going on over there.
This has been such a good year for those of us who do not belong to a political party. It is great to have already chosen to be outside of a system that you know to be crazy when everyone else is finally realizing how crazy it is. Our party and election system is clearly broken. This whole primary season is about racism, pastors and televangelists, crazy supporters (some of which are the candidate’s husbands), and stupidity. Our government is playing party games using all of their energy to make the other party look bad while we are all forced out of our homes and go broke on gasoline. Particularly confusing is how the Democrat ruled segments of government and the Republican White House are voting, vetoing, and fighting over everything.
It looks like Senator McCain has finally gotten all the way into the pool of chaos. It seemed like he was just putting his toes into the water before. Let’s watch and enjoy as he begins to fight with his own support base and the Democrats destroy each other.
The war in Iraq will be won and the troops will be withdrawn by the end of my first term in office was the message or should I more properly say “campaign promise” of Senator John McCain this weekend. A win and a withdrawal of our troops from Iran by the year 2013. Was this a big stand for Senator McCain or another ploy to separate from the failed plans of the current regime.
As I heard this statement, the first thing that crossed my mind was an image of Senator McCain telling his staff that he was about to say this to the public and one of his staff asking him, “What if that doesn’t happen?” In my little daydream Senator McCain responds with: “We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it, right now we’ll do anything to win.
The truth is, Senator McCain had to do something because he has been plagued by the comment he made a few months back where he stated that America will stay in Iraq for a hundred years if that’s what it takes. You couple a comment like that hundred year comment and the fact that he is from the same unpopular party that the current president, who started the war in Iraq is from. The current president, a certain President, George W. Bush, is extremely unpopular and growing more unpopular almost by the second. If you are a Republican candidate at this moment, this is the one person you would least want to be associated with at this point in history.
This was just the tip of the iceberg; it gets worse for Senator McCain. Earlier this week, while visiting Israel, President Bush attacked anyone that thinks that negotiation with those who consider themselves our enemy and implied that such a person would be stupid. The obvious implication here was that Senator Barack Obama’s foreign policy ideas were stupid. This is an opinion and agree or disagree it is at least a valid opinion.
The problem is that the source of this passive aggressive attack was the very unpopular President Bush. This creates several problems for Senator McCain.
The first and probably biggest problem is that while Senator McCain is just getting out of the blocks in the media (compared to Senators Clinton and Obama who have been all we hear about) the man who will probably have the lowest popularity of any president in history is doing his campaign dirty work for him. Once this became the view of the public as a whole, the months of work he has done in trying to distance himself from the president all but vanished in one fell swoop.
Then Senator McCain made an almost predictable error. He went along with the attacks of the President and demanded that Senator Obama explain himself. Could John McCain and his entire camp be so stupid as to not see what was to come next.
Senator Obama, pulled out his two favorite aces.
The first card Senator Obama pulled was to write off the whole ruckus as old Washington politics. It must be clear to the entire planet that the American people are tired and dissatisfied with the way our government works and would vote for Mickey Mouse and Goofy if they thought there would be a change. Once a politician is marked as “Old Washington” in this election year that person has one foot and two arms in the political grave.
Besides, if you are going to say that applying pressure to a nation by not talking to them (not negotiating with them) will work, you have to site cases where that has worked. That goes double when you are discussing countries like Iran where that strategy has not only failed, but seems to have made matters worse. Every candidate this year has to keep in mind that the American people are hungry for “change” and if you say that something should stay the same, you had better have a real good reason for not changing.
The second card that Senator Obama pulled out was the “extension of the Bush presidency” card. As unpopular as the current surveys state that President Bush is, being tied to him cannot be a good thing in a presidential race.
I remember in something I was watching in the movies or on television, I think it was C.S.I. episode, where the criminal took a guy and tied him to a dead body because that would cause all of the rotting and decaying that was happening to the dead person to happen to the other person while he was still alive. I know that is gross, but that is what it is like to be tied to the current presidency publicly. That is the fact. Fair or unfair, warranted or unwarranted, the American people as a whole are unhappy with the current presidency and anything that is tied to it.
It was as if the entire party of Democrats was crouched in waiting for this moment. The moment when President Bush and Senator John McCain would team up and attack Senator Barack Obama so that the ambush could take place on the Republican party as a whole.
Within a day, democrats came out of the woodwork to attack President Bush and Senator McCain and make them look like a team unified in being stupid.
I can hardly imagine why Senator McCain would not have steered clear of this whole mess. The entire planet knows that his support among the more rightwing Republicans is shaky at best. I am wondering why a person relying so heavily on voters who are nearer to the middle would do something that damage his support from that group as well.
If Senator McCain is to be a serious player in this election he has to do one of two things.
- Keep up the gopher hole campaign strategy where he stays underground, once in a while poking his head out to give a short speech, while the democrats destroy each other.
- Base his campaign on rhetoric that says he is different and in many ways distant from the current regime and that he represents the magic word: “CHANGE!”
Just as the Democratic candidates looked to both have their fingers on the red button that would self-destruct their party, President Bush and Senator McCain gave them a reason to unify (even Senator Hillary Clinton attacked the President and Senator McCain on this one) and get some good press. I am just seriously surprised at how both of the main parties are their own worst enemies this primary season.
It is as if we are not voting for the best candidate we are simply going to vote for the last person standing after both parties implode and the smoke clears. What a mess.
Ladies and gentleman, another horse in the running for the presidential sweepstakes. Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr has burst onto the presidential scene this week as a possible Libertarian Party candidate for president.
“A what” You might ask.. A Libertarian. You know, the people who finished forth four years ago behind George Bush, John Kerry, and even Ralph Nader. I know it is hard to believe that there was anyone behind Ralph Nader, but there was this poor soul named Michael Badnarik, who ran as a Libertarian (who, did what).
But, don’t write this guy off so fast. He has a little bit of end the war now for the Democrats and a little get tough on the borders for the Republicans. He also has a lot of, breaking party lines for the true Independents. If you add that to the fact that the longer these primaries go on the less the public likes the three candidates that are in place now, you get a possibility of actually winning. It may be a remote chance, but the odds look better for him than they do for Senator Hillary Clinton right now and she is still being taken pretty seriously.
If nothing else, the confusion and division that Senator Clinton has caused for the Democrats can be mirrored by this former Republican’s resurfacing in a race where the Republican candidate has such shaky support from the party itself.
What a phenomenal development. This is the great reality television that this election year continues to promise.
We have had crazy staff, crazy supporters, crazy husbands, crazy clergy, several crazy candidates, but now we are about to get another wave of insanity. Scary as it truly is, I cannot help but appreciate the entertainment of it all.
Yesterday Senator Hillary Clinton lost in one primary and barely squeezed out a win in another. What this means is that her winning the popular vote just moved from incredibly impossible to a little more incredibly impossible. This also moved her chances of winning over the remaining super-delegates highly unlikely. Why are we still seeing all of this again?
Can we put an end to this finally. I am ready to see Senator Obama limp into his contest with the lost Senator McCain. I say Sen. Obama is limping (and probably bloody in a metaphoric sense) because of the terrible fight he has been in. I say Sen. McCain is missing because, well, he’s missing. He has been hiding out most of this time occasionally surfacing to say stupid things (I suppose Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama had plenty of friends, family, and supporters to handle that for them)
Senator Clinton was deep in the rhetoric over the past few days and not quite as deep in the money. I think she is in deep trouble as of this weeks events.
Of course this vote took place on the same day all the economists teamed up to say the “Gas Tax Holiday” that her and Sen. McCain have been pushing is a stupid idea. That means it probably did not have much time to settle in with yesterday’s voters, but by next week it will be deep in the psyche of all of us who own televisions or read newspapers.
Sen. Clinton has vowed to go on, like a good captain, strong, teary eyed, and holding the wheel as the ship sinks.
Now, more statistics are starting to show up that clearly show that if Sen. Clinton does not win the popular vote and cannot get the super-delegates to vote her in as the candidate of choice they will refuse to vote for Sen. Obama, and may even vote for Sen. McCain.
Here’s a newsflash Hillary Clinton supporters: It is so close to impossible for her to win at this point that I think Sen. Obama could shoot several of the super-delegates that are supporting in front of the media and still squeeze out a victory over Sen. Clinton.
But, from the standpoint of a spectator who does not belong to either party this is great. The two Democratic gladiators are going to pummel each other before the winner gets thrown to the lions. What could possibly be as exciting?
Then you have Rush Limbaugh who has been rallying Republicans to come together and vote in the Democrat’s primaries just to cause chaos. Add this all to the chaos of any appearances of Former President Bill Clinton and the sheer excitement of an appearance of a certain Mr. Wright and you have excellent reality television. What greater pursuit is there than sitting and watching other individuals go through excruciating and taxing circumstances just for our entertainment.
This is all fine and dandy until we come back to reality and realize we are all going to be stuck with one of these three for the next four years. Then suddenly we realize that we are all the next cast of the reality show that will be for the rest of the world to watch.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!