4/2/2008
While most people think that Senator Obama will be the Democratic presidential nominee this year, Republicans already have their nominee, Senator John McCain. The fact is, I couldn’t be more delighted with McCain as our nominee. I began gravitating towards Senator McCain about six months ago, and I think this cycle Republicans made a wise choice.
Democrats have a big problem. Actually, they have several big problems, including the fact that they are tearing themselves apart in a long, drawn-out primary battle between Senators Obama and Clinton.
But their biggest problem is that, whoever becomes the Democratic nominee must face one of the most substantive opponents they’ve faced since Ronald Reagan ran in 1980. In some ways, McCain is even more substantive as a candidate.
Senator Clinton, of course, has her imagined experience while a First Lady plus seven years in Congress. And I take nothing away from Senator Clinton’s years in Congress; she’s shown herself to be both effective and influential in the Senate.
Senator Obama of course has three years in the Senate and about 8 years as an Illinois state senator. Again, not bad. Certainly, Senator Obama has been a rising star in the Democratic Party since he first began running for office a few years back. Senator Obama is nothing less than impressive for his political skills.
But there is a gap for both Democratic senators. I guess you could sum it up by asking, “where’s the beef?”
It is, as I have said, style vs. substance. So, how will the eventual Democratic candidate deal with such as substantive presidential rival? By attacking his substance of course.
And we’ve already seen some initial salvo’s with Clinton and Obama supporters promising an ominous and serious look at McCain’s “record.” Which means they are going to dig in and find whatever they can to smear him with.
The whole trumped-up charge of plagiarism against McCain by liberal website ThinkProgress.org is the perfect example of how Democrats are hoping to smear him, yet, if this kind of thing is the best they can do, they are in serious trouble come November. Of course, ThinkProgress.org was forced to apologize for their mistake, but even if they had not, why would it have been, as some liberals put it, “devastating” to McCain’s campaign that he echoed a fellow warrior in declaring his hatred for war?
All I can say is, there’s a truck coming down the road, it’s called the “McCain Campaign,” and, come November, I don’t think Democrats are going to know what hit them.
But that’s just my opinion.
I’m going to blog more on this later. This is a key factor in the upcoming general campaign between Senator McCain and whomever Democrats decide will take him on this year. As I watch Senator Obama in particular as he carefully dances around the issues, trying to be all things to all people, and compare that to Senator McCain’s style of “straight talk,” I feel increasingly confident that McCain will win in November.
More to come!
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