Thoughts On A McCain Candidacy
February 6th, 2008 by joe
Let’s assume John McCain is the Republican nominee. Maybe that’s a hypothetical but, er, maybe not.
- It will be weird for the next 10 months to have the mainstream media praising the GOP candidate while the conservative grassroots abhors the candidate. Quite a change from the past eight years.
- First, this means a lot of conservatives are going to tune out to some degree. NASCAR season starts in a couple weeks, so it’s not like there won’t be anything else to focus on. The turnout tonight on the Republican side was about half the number of Democrat voters so I would submit this is already happening.
- Now, if Hillary is the Democratic nominee, we’ve been promised the contest between her and McCain would be the most cordial in American history. Ditto on the importance of NASCAR, and then of course the NFL kicks in around August. But it will be like … I don’t know … having Oprah on in the background while you’re making dinner. You would not really pay attention but rather treat it like a droning audio backdrop while you’re doing other things.
- If Obama is their nominee, what do the candidates mainly argue about? Certainly the war - hard to see how the MSM fawning over McCain would continue. Still, if anyone could inspire the media to deal thoughtfully with the possibility of a 100 year presence in Iraq, I guess McCain would be the one to do it. Yee hah. Certainly, the MSM would treat McCain with extreme deference and civility in his battle against a man 30 years his younger because they would be presiding over a brewing, slow-motion Republican defeat of biblical proportions - so why not keep a happy face about it.
- Could there possibly NOT be a third party run? Seriously, even if Lou Dobbs does not pan out, by the time June rolls around we’d have had that Oprah program droning on for over 4 months and someone is bound to say, what the heck why not run for president since half the country has already forgotten it’s an election year? NASCAR races are four hours long and by June it’s really hard to maintain commitment to watching the race every Sunday. We’ll need a diversion.
- Prediction: No October surprises against John McCain. It won’t be needed. We’ll be in Iraq for 100 years. Yee hah.
- By July, when reports surface that Republican self-identification is at an all-time low and the RNC forms alliances with Andy Willoughby and Cutco to offset the fact that total donations have trickled to $50 a month, McCain will say “screw it” and unleash his Hispanic outreach director, Juan Hernandez, for a massive, pro-open borders, campaign for the Latino vote. This will mean running to the left of the Democrats on illegal immigration.
- An entrepreneurial teenager in Modesto, CA will register a trademark for “Republican Party Convention” which the Republicans have stupidly never bothered to secure, and will attach it to a new Texas Hold ‘em league, and thereby force the Republicans to hold their September meeting under the name “Elephant Party Convention.”
- On October 10 John McCain will announce that he has reached across the aisle and accepted the offer to serve as Secretary of Energy in the event of a Democratic administration - but insist that he fully expects to win the presidency in his own right.
He will become a weekly guest on Oprah, usually discussing the threat of global warming.
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February 6th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Note that 5 of the 7 states McCain won last night are states he doesn’t have a chance of winning in November; only 1 of the 6 states Romney won fall into that category; and none of the 5 states the Huckster won.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:23 am
My mistake since I took my numbers from this morning’s Post–McCain won 9 states, 6 of which he has no chance of winning.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Ted - Great observation. The chances of any Rep nominee winning CA, NY and NJ are slim to none. The delegate map looked more like a general election map (with the exception of FL) when you compare McCain to Romney and Huck combined.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Meant to add - McCain looking like the dem cand and Romney and Huck picking up the traditional states - south and midwest.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Predictions on a McCain candidacy :
A new generation of Americans will be introduced to the Keating 5 and what they did.
There will be attempts to Swiftboat McCain for no reason other than payback for 2004. Some will hold water, some won’t.
McCain’s legendary temper will be right out front as a campaign issue. His dressing down of other legislators will come back to haunt him.
McCain and his Democrat opponent will likely have a race to see who can pander more to the Hispanic vote, i.e. who can give away more of our children’s country to win the election.
McCain will swing to the left on many domestic issues as he has in the past to try to eliminate the divide between he and his opponent on these issues.
Lastly, McCain will fail to unite the GOP behind him, and lose by a significant margin. Afterward, he will replace Dole as the spokesperson for ED..
February 6th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Good point about him swinging to the left on a variety of issues. I see an escalating war of promises of handouts.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Looks like starting next year I will be spending my childrens inherentence. If not for paying these new “give-aways” then just to keep it from going to the “state” when I die. I think that everyone should start now and go on gov’t welfare. We’ll end up there anyway.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Activist: Did you see Obama’s speech last night? Give us (the government) your children to educate, give us the soldiers to care for, give us the citizens to provide health care to.
No thanks.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Cathymac,
I agree that that is not the way to go. My point being that it can’t be helped if these socialists get into the big-house. They WILL such us dry on entitlements. But then again, since the gov’t prints the money, they will just print more of it. And extend our workweek to, say, 48 hours. And take away our options for doctor-choice. And regulate our in-home thermostats. Eliminate social-security (what an oximoron that is). And the list just goes on. America WILL end up a welfare state…..owned by the Chinese! “and the serfs will be thankful for any scraps given them by the anointed ones”.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Act: Agree with all, I just wanted to point out the not so veiled verbage Obama used. When Obama says “US” he means the nanny state, owned by the chinese eventually, of course.
The ignorant will think the “US” is a kumbaya moment for the world to hold hands and feel the love, till their wallets are picked.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
US meaning us, not US as in United States.