There is an early Halloween speculation going on about worries that BHO is a wimp and will be esily slurred by the Swiftboat tactics of the Radical Residual Right.
Obama is the Radical Republican Right's worst dream, a second coming of Ronald Reagan, A natural leader at the time of a perfect storm that makes the Carter-Reagan transition look like an overture. Obama is a Reaganlike figure coming to rescue America from Jimmy Carter's calls for sacrifice without tying that sacrifice to the ultimate victory of America.
Reagan sold an impossible dream .
look at the parallels:
Our enemies are making fools of us ....
Obama/Reagan .. The goodness of America is our ultimate sword.
Obama/Reagan .. this embarrassment is not because THEY are better than we, but because we have been poorly led.
Obama/Reagan ... God is on our side.
The decline in energy is inevitable ...
Obama/Reagan ... The ingenuity ofr America will overcome.
"We" are threatened by folks who do not look like us ...
Obama/Reagan ... look at me and repeat, "I am an American, ..."
The econmy is a bust, the system does not work ..
Reagan succeeded in selling voodoo economics NOT because the average Jo has a warm spot for Warren Buffett and Halliburton, but because he give middle Americans an alternative to Jimmy Carter's pessimism.
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Can the Reps work by swiftboating ...
I doubt it for five reasons:
1. As a Politician Kerry has the lessons of Kerry, Ford, and Dukakis to learn from.
2. McCain is a lot more ethical a guy than the BushCosa Nostra.
3. McCain has a rather full closet of his own. Fielding, melanoma, age, friendship with the Vietnamese, second (rich) wife, messy divorce.
4. Clinton Inc has not found anything disabling that does not require entering the racism trap. Clinton & co. could not find .. some evidence comparable to the discovery of Eagleton's record of treatment of a mental illness. For example, if BHO had once sold coke or if he has AIDS.
5. Obama has built a wall against racism, invoking ... the gimmick used against Harold Ford will not work. Imagine a variation on the Obama Girl where the singer is an innocent white house wife swooning for the bootiful blackie! This will happen because HBO, Inc has an antidote: Michelle. Not only are they obviously in love, white women identify with her. Swiftboaters beware, Barack ain't no John Kerry.
FINALLY, the Republican effort to load BHO wi "Where's the beef" seems like their best weapon. The problme is that McC is MORE vuberabke to this than BHO is. In most instances the BHO plans are more attractive and specific to voters than anything McC can offer unless McC violates parts of the treasured dream of the dormant Reqgan.
So, here is my WORST case scenarios .... >
McCain Whitmans vs. Obama Richardson
1. Reps surface evidence that BHO once sold crack.
2. On 9/11/08 a gang of NOI take white hostages at a shopping mall in Kansas and refuse to leave until the US elects BHO.
3. A Hausa led revolution occurs in Nigeria with backing from Chavez and Ahmadinejad.
4. Iran goes nuclear. Bush call McC to consult and they jointly declare a blockade.
5. sex scandal, Obama has white mistress and an illegitimate child.
6. Obama guilty of plagiarism at Harvard Law
The problem for the reps with most of these scenarioes is that the Clinton machine apparently oculd not find any of this and a real el Qaeda event owuld seem unlikl3ey unless EQ wanted to push the elction toward McC,
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