Re: Finally! Even the leftist weenie media gets it right!

On Apr 10, 7:06 am, John Larkin
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:20:08 -0700 (PDT), MooseFET



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On Apr 9, 7:42 pm, John Larkin
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:33:32 -0700 (PDT), MooseFET <kensm...@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Apr 9, 6:50 am, John Larkin
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On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:54:15 -0700 (PDT), MooseFET <kensm...@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Apr 7, 3:08 pm, John Larkin
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On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:01:23 -0700, Jim Thompson

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See...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html

...Jim Thompson

Link on that page:

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1728307,00.html

If her campaign team is so wildly mismanaged, how could we trust her
to run a country?

News flash: The president is not supposed to "run the country." 3
branches balance of power and all that.

Some additional comments on "running the country":

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9478.html

It is more likely that the election will be Oboma vs McCain. If you
select the right set of beliefs McCain has held, there is a lot to
like about him but I expect him to lose to Oboma. McCain's inability
to keep the actors in the middle east straight is likely to lead to a
situation like Ford had where he said "Eastern Europe" instead of
"Western" and never recovered fromthe flub.

I think a lot of anglo and hispanic folks will go for McCain at the
last instant, purely based on race. And the repubs will do a lot of
serious Obama bashing, based on what he has done and written. Even
some Dems I know consider O to be too liberal.

It is sort of funny that Obama is thought of as the more liberal of
the two (Hill and Oboma) even though when you read their positions his
are the more moderate.

Now if McCain picked Condi as veep, he'd win by a landslide.

I really disagree with that. Condi would chase away much of the
racists and sexist vote[1].

Or she'd allow the closet racists (including many dems and
independents) to vote against Obama while telling themselves that
they're voting for a black, hence are not racist after all.

Yes but there are down sides. Condi is female. Sexism is about as
strong as racism. Besides she doesn't have a very good record.


She is also a tie to all that is disliked
about Bush. Most conservatives consider Condi to be incompetent.

Maybe so, but the conservatives will vote for McCain anyhow, and all
the lefties are solid for Obama no matter what. It's the moderates and
independents he has to get.

I think the only reason that conservatives won't sit on their hands is
because they will be too busy throwing up their hands. McCain won't
motivate the conservatives. Without Hillary on the other side, they
are likely to all just go home and cry on election day.


Besides, Condi is awfully cute. McCain needs some cute on his team.

There are pictures of her around with a very disagreeable look on her
face. I expect to see lots of those.


McCain will likely pick a person with good conservative economic
"street cred". He has weaknesses in the domestic policy area that he
will hope to pach.

[1] I resisted adding "AKA the republican core" but not for long. The
smartass in me will never die.

Harumph.

I'm sorry but I just can't help myself.


John

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