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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (111172)	2/8/2008 8:47:10 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, If Hillary wins, I think she'll pick Obama and he will accept. If Obama wins, Hillary's ego will not allow her to be vice president. In either case, I hope you are correct because Harold Ford is a DIMO (democrat in name only). IMO, he's more conservative than McCain. It's guys like that that allowed the democrats to win back congress. They ran republicans. ;-) I don't think there's any way McCain can win the enthusiasm of most conservatives (other than the military conservatives he already has) with a vice presidential selection. Conservatives are too principled. Many may hold their nose and vote for him because they think he's a better alternative than Hillary and they want to vote, but they will still dislike him and be unwilling to support him with enthusiasm and extra effort. McCain's only chance is to swing over a small percentage of moderate democrats. Huckabee should continue to do OK because he has the religious conservatives and is a likeable guy (unlike McCain), but he's going to have just as difficult a time attracting the fiscal conservatives. I think most of them are going to stay home. The real reason McCain won is that he got the votes of democrats and independents in the early primaries and that gave him some momentum. If the early contests were closed, he would have been out early because he would have been broke.