McCain's Strategy

Sometimes this campaign looks like a Hollywood screenwriter wrote it. It’s like something out of West Wing. I expect at any moment Martin Sheen to come in with a cigarette and say: "Okay boys, let’s make a president!"
There are some real scenarios to chew on, though. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch endorsed John McCain. I think it was the writer Mike Sullivan from Fox who suggested that he would feel better about voting for McCain if he knew who his running mate was. What an interesting point. What if McCain announced who his running mate was? What if that person was young, attractive, fit, perhaps even a person from a visible minority? What sort of a stunning gesture would that be, not only showing confidence, as opposed to arrogance, about being the nominee but at the same time reassuring people, like those who read the Post-Dispatch need to be reassured, about McCain’s fitness, health and soundness. It’s not too late to do it. If McCain did it in the next couple of days before Super Tuesday, I think it could be a real devastating shot against Romney. So far, Romney doesn’t have anyone nominated for that and is in a much less obvious position to do that.
McCain is looking more and more like George C. Scott as Patton. All he is missing is a gigantic American flag behind him, the shiny helmet with the "A", britches, boots and a swagger stick up his ass. Apparently his record at Annapolis was as good as Custer’s at West Point. I want to know who is running mate is too.
The other thing that was brought up is what is Arnold Schwarzenegger listened to the Kennedy in his bed and jumped on the Obama bandwagon and actually supported Obama, a Democrat, for president? What a devastating gesture that would be. There’s not much time left to do it and Schwarzenegger would be fried forever as a Republican if he did it. But McCain got Lieberman to support him. Lieberman’s a Democrat Senator, albeit an independent one. Lieberman has far less to lose as a member of his party than Schwarzenegger stands to lose. Lately, though, he’s been acting more like a Democrat anyways. If he announced his support for Obama and also announced that he was joining the Democrats, it would create almost irresistible momentum for Obama.
Clinton said she found her voice. She didn’t point out that it was Bill’s.

The Presidential Race

Now we learn from the Today show that in fact Madame Clinton was in fact photographed with Mr. Rezko and President Clinton. This is in addition to the Soo situation, the Buddhist Temple, White Water…
Apparently, Madame Clinton and her family have invested millions of dollars in the Saudi part of the world. Doesn’t that put her in a conflict?
Not only is her hideous strategy having some effect on Obama’s support nationwide, but now she pulled out the Puss-in-Boots trick where she wells up and sends President Clinton to do her dog work. She could not wait to get out of South Carolina. She is the status quo ante candidate. It’s Middle Age Barbie in the White House package.
At the Obama acceptance rally in South Carolina, lighters were replaced by digital cameras, all held up looking like mini-lighters at rock concerts. He then attended on Sunday morning to do an interview with the odious, vile George Stephanopoulos. I would have pointed out that Stephanopoulos is a Clinton lickspittle who owes his career to them and it shows.
The Kennedy endorsement doesn’t hurt Obama, though. Senator Kennedy says Obama makes us appeal to the better angels of our nature, a Lincolnian phrase. I wonder if that means Barack, also from Illinois and more specifically Springfield, is the next Lincoln? Who wouldn’t love to see him in a stovepipe hat and some mutton chop sideburns?
Romney now has the support of the Jeb Bush organization in Florida and it was confirmed that the New York Times endorsement may have been a strategy to ruin McCain because they know that he is the easiest candidate to defeat. I think Romney is looking better and better right now. Looks young too.
The Canadian Front: John Manley stated he thought of Afghanistan as 1600 era England.
Superbowl: Junior Seau says there are three categories in life: good, great and EVER!