Does McCain Need Obama? - NC GOP Ad
McCain’s decision to ask the North Carolina Republican Party to stop airing an ad of Obama’s pastor (view here) has caused Michelle Malkin to dub McCain a snob and compare him to the mainstream media.
Congratulations, Sen. McCain: You’ve out-snobbed Snobama.
Yes, without having seen the ad or talked directly to the NC GOP officials, he’s absolutely convinced that he’s right about his knee-jerk assessment of their supposedly bigoted motives.
McCain Math is the same as MSM Math: Southern + Republican + video featuring radical leftists who happen to be black = RACISTRACISTRACISTRACISTDANGERWILLROBINSON!
Malkin’s knee-jerk response to moderate McCain may have missed the mark so says the blog Right-Wing Liberal.
It’s fairly clear now that Obama is the weaker candidate . . . thus McCain has ample incentive to prefer he win the Democratic nomination, although if Clinton “steals” the nomination, the Democratic Party will tear itself apart.
The problem is this: if Clinton ends up “winning” the popular vote, a lot of Democrats will surmise that she won’t be stealing the nomination at all - in fact, she will have a powerful rationale for claiming the nomination. Thus the Democrats could in fact avoid the trap they accidentally set for themselves.
In effect, McCain is taking a page from Rush’s Operation Chaos, only in North Carolina, it’s Obama, not Clinton, whose success causes more trouble for the Democrats.
McCain can’t tell Republicans to cross over and vote Obama in NC; that would be too obvious. However, he can try to make sure Obama suffers as little damage as possible in the state - and that’s exactly what he’s doing.
What are your thoughts?
This post was written by Grozet on April 27th, 2008.
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Comment from Keith Smith
Time: April 27, 2008, 5:02 pm
With McCain, conservatives will have a two-front war. The old front against the liberal Dems and a dangerous front in our rear and flanks with liberal McCain and his RINOs on the attack.
With McCain, America and the “loyal” Republicans will be more willing to socialize large sectors of the economy because of blind trust. Hillary would have a much harder time bringing us socialized medicine than McCain and those forced to go along with him through party loyalty.
Comment from Archimedes
Time: April 28, 2008, 4:23 pm
McCain doesn’t want socialized medicine, that’s ridiculous. And nobody’s going to socialize large sectors of the economy, that’s equally ridiculous. Hyperbole and semantics serve no one. I am continually surprised by the arrogance of those loudly calling themselves conservatives today, stomping around shouting about RINOs and moderates and attempting to draw a false dichotomy in which you’re either a Dittohead or Karl Marx. Yes, McCain holds some positions that are center-right. So what? Most of America holds those very same positions, on issues like immigration, Guantanamo, and taxes, the country is generally quite moderate. It is the height of arrogance, in a democratic society, to run for office desiring anything other than to accomplish the public’s will. Yes, that means people who run b/c they want to institute their own particular ideological agenda, regardless of what it is. Why many conservatives today think that it is perfectly ok to run candidates who are more interested in accomplishing the particular tenets of political conservatism than devoting themselves to the sacrifice of public service is troubling indeed. It is no less immoral for conservatives to push policies the public doesn’t want than it is for liberals to.
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