Hail Mary!
So how’s that RINO candidate working out for ya, anyway?
It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign.
He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.
Alternatively, perhaps next time Republicans might consider nominating, y’know, a fucking conservative for once, instead of alienating and demoralizing the base by putting forth the Democrat Lite type people like Kristol plumped for from the beginning. The title of Harsanyi’s latest (which as usual is well worth a look, by the way) says it all: Republicans have no candidate.
The GOP pursued a strategy of going after votes they were never going to get anyway. Now they just can’t figure out why they’re behind and unable to get any traction, and Kristol is even worried enough to suggest that McCain attempt to dismantle and rebuild his entire campaign three weeks before election day, a move that would be perceived — accurately — as one so reeking of desperation as to probably sink him for good.
Hey guys, you think maybe your RINO candidate’s tendency to undermine every slight bit of momentum he occasionally picks up — by regurgitating liberal shibboleths about Wall Street “greed,” climate change, and amnesty for illegal aliens, core Juanny Mav positions that ought to be slammed by any bona fide conservative as the Left moonshine they are — might possibly have something to do with all this?
Liberal Democrats finally got what they wanted in Obama: a corrupt, vicious, guileful left-wing extremist who apparently has talent enough at dissembling to fool a majority of Americans, with the full-throated assistance of the lapdog media, into thinking he’s a moderate and voting for him. Their base is energized, and they’re cleaning McCain’s clock in the polls. Maybe the GOP could learn the underlying lesson instead of being content to merely emulate them, continuing the blind folly of trying to beat Democrats by being more like them instead of offering a clear alternative.
McCain fire his campaign? Maybe the GOP rank and file should at last fire the RINOs instead.
Update! Oh good God.
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McCain basically had 25% while everybody else had 15% or 20%. In a primary field, that's enough.
In this race, there is one conservative, one moderate, one liberal and one socialist. And I don't believe those polls, President Kerry.