Until today Obama’s foreign policy adviser was a woman who once advocated militarily invading Israeli territory to stop whatever it is she hysterically imagined the Israelis were doing to the Palestinians. In contrast to their usual untenable, unblin…

This election will be won in the center and the center rejects the extreme and unreasonable,…

Chakra Hammer on March 6, 2008 at 10:25 PM

So we are rejecting both the extreme right and extreme left for the extreme center?

Survey says: Clinton or Obama will beat McCain

Yeah. I’ve been saying this for 6 months.

Right now, McCain holds a bit of an edge. But as soon as the DNC picks a candidate that will change. Democrats will reunite under their banner, regardless of candidate. But Republicans will remain split.

McCain needs to get his sh… {stuff} together, fast.

McCain, please do two things:

1. Give up your single-minded personal agendas and embrace the greater historical conservative perspectives of the Republican party.

2. Fire your campaign manager. But if you can’t do #1, it won’t matter who your campaign manager is.

He’s a liar with the thoughts of illegal aliens in mind over Americans.

My word, you’re obnoxious.

Look, I’m not entirely discounting the possibility that McCain will win, but to imply that he’s favored to beat the Democratic candidate in this year’s presidential election is absurd.

He supports a policy of “regularizing” 20 million+ illegal aliens, which two-thirds of the American public viscerally rejects. He supports the continued occupation of Iraq, which most of the American public disagrees with. And he has already pledged not to run any negative, i.e. truthful, advertisements against his sleazy, socialist adversaries.

If McCain wins it’s not because conservative Republicans are going to show up to vote for him-they’re not. Even if they did it still wouldn’t assure his election. The only hope he has is HRC using the Clinton political apparatus to seize the nomination, thus turning off millions of committed Obamatons.

In this case, I would have left the second half the sentence unsaid.

If the election was held today, he’d look like this.
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If the election was held today

Of course, I’m sure Allahpundit’s had more time to hone his captioning skills to the razor’s edge. :p

Seriously though, keep up the great work. Glad to have you on board, and glad to have you answering relevant questions I didn’t even think to ask.

Those of you who think McCain will blow the Dem candidate away; well, I wish I could have what you are smoking. Unless McCain undergoes a personality transplant I fail to see what he can do to “excite” voters. His speech Tuesday night was a snorer…..he’s not much of a public speaker……he’s better than Bush, but who isn’t?

Even taking into consideration ‘pubs who voted for herself on Tuesday, the numbers put up by the Dem candidates are chilling. We keep imagining a food fight between Hill and Obama, but I believe the party elders, i.e. tubby Teddy et al will have a sit down with them both….tell them to make nice and pull it together. If they can make that happen, the GOP will have its’
clock cleaned in November.

Agreed. Like it or not, Republicans are on the defensive this election, and having someone like McCain, who exemplifies many of the reasons why that is, as the nominee doesn’t help matters.

Grayson on March 6, 2008 at 10:05 PM

Oh really?
McCain fought against the out of control spending and pork-barrel earmarks, fought against the failed strategies in Iraq, and for the Surge in Iraq that is now working..

He has worked across the aisle, we will be seeing an extremist liberal democrat who doesn’t know how to compromise with a democrat controlled house and senate, against a Moderate-Conservative Republican that has made compromise his middle name.

This election will be won in the center and the center rejects the extreme and unreasonable, and an extreme liberal , with democrats controlling both houses of congress with no checks and balances.

Is not a very good change, nor a wise decision to make.

I’m prepared for a democrap president. Have been for months. I will be surprised if Open Borders McCain finishes within 5 points of either of them.

Zorro on March 6, 2008 at 8:02 PM

Agreed. Like it or not, Republicans are on the defensive this election, and having someone like McCain, who exemplifies many of the reasons why that is, as the nominee doesn’t help matters.

Zorro

McCain will win easily. He will portray Obama as a Rezko-tainted liberal extremist novice.

Survey says: Clinton or Obama will beat McCain

I’m prepared for a democrap president. Have been for months. I will be surprised if Open Borders McCain finishes within 5 points of either of them.

Not this year. Democrats will have a turnout advantage. They’re all fired up. Witness their heavy turnout in the Dem primaries, and in 2006.

daryl_herbert on March 6, 2008 at 7:44 PM

primary turnout does not translate to votes in the fall.

Why are polls treated as news? Even exit polls, which ask people what they just did, are notoriously unreliable. Yet a poll asking people what they will do at some point in the future makes headlines. Most polls I see have sample sizes smaller than the average high school, and they are often within the margin of error. This tells us…..?

It’s lazy and pointless. It treats pure speculation as hard news. I don’t get it and never have. Yet polls only seem to proliferate. Then people are shocked when reality doesn’t reflect the polling, and assume somehow the reality is wrong.

It boggles my mind.

token on March 6, 2008 at 5:43 PM

It’s a valid question, and the only answer is that it is to drive public opinion a certain way, NOT to inform the voters. A poll is plucked from the air, then broadcast from the loudest speaker, and repeated enough, along with a “storyline” so that it becomes “true”, it’s a style of Propaganda.

Not this year. Democrats will have a turnout advantage. They’re all fired up. Witness their heavy turnout in the Dem primaries, and in 2006.

The reference to Scooter Libby is interesting. Patrick Fitzgerald, who prosecuted Libby, is now prosecuting Rezko. What goes around, comes around…

Steve Z on March 6, 2008 at 7:33 PM

and the judge in the trial is the same one who put Conrad Black away

lefties will turn into pretzels demonizing this trial

and 600 people from 50 states is hardly reliable

it was 600 from each state

not that that means anything at this point

I like Johnny Mac’s chances vs either one in head to head debates

And we’ve seen how wrong some of the polls have been just in the past 2 months-one poll had Hillary beating Obama in Iowa by double digits, and Hillary was supposed to lose in New Hampshire.

And some of the other recent polls are just as crazy-Pew had one come out a couple of weeks ago that claimed that more Americans trusted the Dems to run the Iraq war more than they trusted the Repubs.

The only recent polls I could find that seemed to be based in reality were the ones that showed that Americans trust our US military more than any other “American institution”. Coming in dead last: Reid and Pelosi’s Congress.

Huck’s good with evangelicals, strong in the south, likeable, just as eloquent, if not more in speeches than Obama, and much more eloquent in debates than Obama. He has also shown that though he comes off sometimes like Gomer Pyle, he can still cut it in the mainstream. Side by side, he would make Obama look as boring as Kerry. He also muddies the water with his populist rhetoric. And though he was lukewarm on the issue, he would make illegal immigration more of an issue than McCain ever could. Look at the facts, both McCain and Huck would be horrible for this country, so why not find the best player that could win. Instead we picked the old man whose time was eight years ago.

Red Pill on March 6, 2008 at 6:01 PM

Obama inspires me, too.

He inspires me to vote for someone else.

I’ve been trying to tell people that the only Republican who can defeat Obama is Mike Huckabee.

Red Pill on March 6, 2008 at 6:01 PM

Thanks…I needed a good chuckle