Letters to the Editor
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Who Would The GOP Rather Face?
I am a conservative, and I don't any of the three candidates.
I think it will be very hard for John McCain to win the election. He will still have the veterans with him, a lot of high powered special interests (he has more lobbyists in his campaign than any other candidate), and the REpublican Party Machine and Mehlman and Rove. He will get a lot of the hispanice votes, because he supports amnesty. He will also continue to get pretty good press from the liberal mainstream media. But McCain will continue the Bush Wars and Foreign policy, and everyone knows that. The dead bodies on that mountain will be very hard for him to climb over. In addition to that, his carefully nurtured image of the "Maverick" hides a business-- as--usual--in--Washington record which will likely be peeled away in the campaign. He will looked more two-faced than Janus by the end of the campaign. I will never vote for John McCain.
Beyond that, McCain is an emissary from the past. His views date basically from WWII and the Cold War, and he will be 72 years old by the time he takes office.
Obama will have the same advantages against McCain he has against Hillary, including the kid gloves treatment. McCain will not want to be seen as attacking a black guy. Obama has also used the same arguments against Hillary he will use against McCain, which will have proved devastatingly effective if he gets the Demo nomination. Obama won't get my vote, because he's a power-hungry marxist with a carefully crafted misleading public persona. A poster for Obama on another story on the net asked "What's wrong with voting for someone who can organize a great team and gives wonderful inspiring speehes?" Well, nothing. Except Marxist Vladimir Lenin and Socialist/fascist Adolph Hitler had "great" organization and gave "inspiring" speeches. Both were among the greatest political monsters in history.
Hillary, too, will have the advantage of her Gender in a matchup with McCain. Especially after her nomination. The liberal media which is so enamored of "OBama Obama" now will coalesce somewhat around Hillary, but not entirely (Dick Morris has admitted McCain is liberal, so the media won't go completely against him). And while McCain has the veterans, Hillary has women. She has gotten a lot of hispanic votes in the contest with Obama. She will also have conservatives like myself who oppose the Iraq War, McCain's Amnesty plans, and despise the hypocritical egomaniac behind his carefully contrived, flag draped public persona.
Of course, a lot of us voters are going to stay home this election.