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It’s Always Sunny In McCainadelphia

Honestly, is there ever bad news for John McCain

The Politco (I know, I know) runs a piece detailing seven warning signs for Barack Obama.  Actually, it’s just one warning sign: everything that would turn this election Obama’s way is pretty much on the verge of going McCain’s way.  Other than the constant reiteration of “things are bad and should be going Obama’s way”, is there any bad sign for John McCain?  Just a little one?  I did enjoy this bit of totally useless worrisome signage:

The Legacy of LBJ, Jimmy and Bubba. Barack Obama would have been a trailblazer no matter what – but the Democrats’ trail to the White House has been remarkably narrow since 1960, accommodating only southern whites with border-state strength: Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. (Add Al Gore if you’re counting the popular vote.)

Can I point out that since 1976, the only successful Republican presidential tickets have had someone named “George Bush” on them?  How about that, McCain?  Hmm?  HMMM? 

Oh, I forgot, we’re only allowed to read Obama’s tea leaves.  Dammit.

 

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Posted by Jesse Taylor on 08:51 AM • (9) Comments

That’s the thing about presidential elections—because they only happen every four years, there’s a big issue with sample size. A lot changes in four years—there can be huge shifts in the mood of the country as a whole. Make it eight years and the shift can be unbelievable—look at the differences between the 1964 and 1972 elections, for example.

One thing is for certain from this election—barring the death of one of the two top candidates on the campaign trail, the next President will not be a southerner, and even though I am a southerner, I think that’s a good thing.

Comment #1: Incertus, Nacho Daddy  on  08/11  at  10:04 AM

Well, somebody has to lose!  So, It’ll either be John McCain, because he’s not named George Bush, or Barack Obama, because he’s not a southern Democrat.

The real important part is: who will the VP nominees be?  We’ve had either a Bush or a Clinton on the national ticlet in every presidential contest since 1980.  So, either Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton has to be a VP nominee!

Comment #2: Dana  on  08/11  at  10:49 AM

Well, it won’t be Clinton—she’s already got her own night at the convention, and the following night is reserved for the yet-to-be-named running mate, and no way does the Obama campaign let Hillary Clinton have two nights to his one.

Comment #3: Incertus, Nacho Daddy  on  08/11  at  11:19 AM

I love how the consensus from “mainstream” news sources is that, unfortunately for Obama, no matter what his strengths are, well, Democrats just can’t win.  That’s just the way it is.  You get yourself on a Democratic ticket, and well, you have to just take the consequences that come along with that little D behind your name. 

I have a really scary feeling that if the Republicans win this year, and the Dems don’t make huge gains in congress, we are headed slowly but surely down the path to a one party system.  I mean, when the consensus of the MSM is that you might as well not even run if you’re going to run as a Democratic candidate?

Comment #4: The Opoponax  on  08/11  at  11:33 AM

This is my favorite bit of sheer nonsense:

“Fairly or not, folks think he’s pretty liberal and nobody wants a pair of Pelosis running things,” says a New York-based Democratic consultant.

There are left-leaners who are angry at Nancy Pelosi for not getting done what we hoped a Democratic Congress could get done.  There are Limbaughnistas who despise Pelosi just as they would despise any Democrat in her job (or any other job, or no job).  Beyond that, the number of people who don’t like Pelosi is, in my expert opinion, ZERO—most Americans don’t have an opinion about Pelosi.  The notion that she has engendered broad swing-voter outrage for being too liberal is one of the biggest lies successfully fed to the commentariat by the right.

Comment #5: Steve M.  on  08/11  at  01:08 PM

The only successful Republican tickets since 1928 have had George Bush or Richard Nixon on them.

Comment #6: eyelessgame  on  08/11  at  02:02 PM

It’s funny how at least three of those “problems” for Obama are that the areas Politico is talking about have major race problems (like Michigan).  In other words, Politico is saying that Americans are too racist to vote for a black man, and that fact is Obama’s problem, not the electorate’s problem.  Because, what, he’s supposed to get his and his family’s skin bleached so they’re not black anymore and then racists will vote for him?

Comment #7: Mnemosyne  on  08/11  at  02:52 PM

while it isn’t considered a traditional part of the south, obama is from hawaii, which is pretty far south so far as the US goes geographically. and hes half white. so there, southern white guy. isnt it cool how i can do that?

Comment #8: jessilikewhoa  on  08/11  at  06:03 PM

Obama’s problem isn’t being black, democrat, or non white southern boy; his problem is that he keeps talking. The more he talks the more people actually listen to what he’s saying which is nothing.

People are starting to understand that the “candidate for change” and the new kind of politician tags attached to Obama are a load of crap. People are starting to understand that with Obama, you don’t get change, you get a politician who will say anything and who changes his mind on the issues just so he can be President of the United States. Obama isn’t about change, he’s about himself which makes him no different than any other candidate. Liberal spin doctors find an excuse for everything Obama says. Every time he flips on an issue it’s not really a flip, it’s a shift because of new information. This election is all about Obama, it’s his to lose, and he will lose it.

I just have a favor or two to ask of all you Obamites. Please oh please encourage him to keep talking. I beg of you, tell him he needs to continue shifting his opinion on the issues. I ask you to convince him to keep giving the we should feed our children breakfast type speeches, and finally, I ask that all you doe eyed Obamites keep up the fainting and crying every time he opens his mouth. Thanks!

Comment #9: Jason  on  08/12  at  10:51 AM
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