Landslide or suicide? msnbc.com
You should enjoy this one, Brian. It reminds me of why I'm for W here. This McCain really does sound like a scary guy.
ATTENTION REPUBLICANS: The key to success in American politics is balancing ideology with winning elections. Thus, the idea is to find a candidate who: 1. Agrees with you most issues 2. Can get elected. This is Politics 101. John McCain is a candidate who: 1. Agrees with Republicans on most issues. 2. Can get elected ? but the polls suggest Republicans are about to reject him.
LANDSLIDE OR SUICIDE? If John McCain is effectively out of this race on Tuesday, Wednesday we will be able to say this is the biggest and most tragic mass suicide since a bunch of equally confused true believers laced on identical sneakers and followed cult leader Doe to a ?a better place.?
John McCain as the nominee means that in the general election the Republican party will attract all GOP voters, almost all new voters, the vast majority of independent voters, and about 20 percent of Democrat voters. John McCain is a lock to take the GOP to the Promised Land. George Bush will lose to Al Gore, and the GOP will go down in flames, crippled for a generation or more.
It means perhaps the biggest landslide and biggest mandate in modern American history. That kind of (McCain) victory means the Democratic party would be decimated ? a marginalized caucus of minorities, trade unionists, and some Birkenstock-shod liberals on Manhattan?s Upper West Side.
That kind of (McCain) victory also means the likelihood of Republicans becoming the dominant political party and philosophy for the next 30 years or more. That kind of (McCain) victory means a conservative U.S. Supreme Court, federal bench, and Republican control of the House, the Senate, as well as the White House. In short, that kind of (McCain) victory would deliver Republicans everything for which they could conceivably wish ? and totally vanquish the enemy.
STICKING WITH A LOSER No thanks: we?ll take Bush, Republicans appear poised to proclaim. George W. Bush, who thus far cannot attract the vote of anybody who isn?t an older, overweight, conservative white man named Chuck. George W. Bush, who mortgaged his status as a political centrist to make a deal with bigots to win Southern votes.
Sheesh, makes me sad I can't go out and vote for W tomorrow. By the time I get to vote, the anointed one will probably have it all wrapped up, though, so I think my declared allegiance should be sufficient.
Cheers, Dan.
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