Life In The Ruins

That may be the reason conservatives DO vote for McCain even as he gives them the finger. Survival. Hmmmmmmm

I swear Skep - you can read our hearts and minds.

"Homocidal retard" - hahahahahahaha! That'll be stolen quickly.

A new superhero perhaps: "It's Homicidal Retard Man!"

Unfortunately in this contest of socialists McCain will still win. Americans want Socialism-American Style. They're not ready to go whole hog and turn Euro yet. Give it another 10 years.

Yes, I am a McLame voter. A lifetime of voting Republican and Barak Obama's absolute unfitness for office will ensure that. But in the cartoon politics of today McLame is Elmer Fudd and Obama is a malignant Bugs Bunny who is going to conk McLame on the head, pull his hat over his eyes, twist his shotgun barrel to point into McLame's own face and run away laughing as the old boy pulls the trigger.
I'm unhappy.

You said it exactly.
I met GWB a couple times, and he's a nice man. He's got a couple good points, mostly his unashamed love for God and his stern loins when it comes to war. But, outside of that, he's as blue-blood as the rest of them. He's a GOP party man. Lock, stock & barrell.

I'm with you in terms of prognostics, IF Obama is the nominee. I think if Hillary gets it, then McCain has a chance. Ironically, even though O is left of Hill, he's still considered to be the "center" by, what Dave refers to as, the unthinking Moderate Middle. If O's the nominee, which looks like he will be --unless his body's accidentally dropped in a Montana badland hole-- then the Dems take it wide open. Or, that's my prognostication, anyway.

Let me look into "my" crystal ball. OMG, it's president "O". McCain can probably beat Hilly if she lost a chunk of the black vote by pulling something slick at the convention. The threat of full scale riots at that prospect are already out there and will loom over a McCain vs. Obama outcome as well.

Regardless, if any one of these candidates manages a Kyoto II, the unilateral destruction of the U.S. economy, it will start coming down faster than Bear Stearns stock price.

Dead in the bullseye Skep. Do you think cornbread will be available?

that's the "dumbed down moderate middle", but you are correct, mostly they aren't thinking, they're watching
Dancing With the Stars!

If Hilly pulls it off against these odds I'll be happy to vote for her. What nerve that would take, to diss 40 million black people all at once. This could turn into 1968, when you RAN home to watch the news.

If Hillary gets through this whole deal, I'm voting for her. I don't know if you were serious, but I am now. I never thought I'd see the day when I thought she would be the least of the worries. But, McCain is a bad accident waiting to happen. She'll just sew up gridlock, which is always good.

Count me in, and unless I'm mistaken, according to Arlo Guthrie we are now an organization.

Dont you mean a counterrevolutionary cabal?

Good point. She might be the most conservative candidate available but they cant give her the nomination. Black people would go nuts. I'm not kidding. I was around the day the first Rodney King verdict came out and it would be that bad. There is no way the Dems have the nerve to make that happen.

You'd have to check the lyrics to "Alice's Restaurant" but I'm sure he said three was an organization. I think it takes 50 to be a movement. I'm fine with the cabal however having been a Freemason for so many years.

would this be like the itchy and scratchy show? i am trying to figure out whether an itchy and scratchy with a mccain/obama combination would be preferable to the bill and hillary show.

okay, yes! anything is preferable to the bill and hillary show. the bigger question is whether watching the sarge's brussel sprouts would be less painful than watching any of them at all...

Husband has been saying since it got down to 3 that he will vote for Hillary over the other two.
Personally I am hoping for the Revolution before we have to vote for one of those three.

There will be a revolution, one way or another but as Lenin said, "A revolution isnt a tea party." Even a peaceful, democratic revolution is going to be tough. Stopping the slide towards the megastate is not going to be easy.

As Obama keeps proposing things like caps on corporate salaries (the first step to the government setting wage rates in the name of 'fairness')and single-payer medical care McCain becomes less and less unthinkable.

I know..I know . and I am sure that when the time comes I will have to vote for McC but as many of us have said, it will be either holding my nose or with a gas mask on.
I was just saying to Gimp..I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

If I could figure out a way to vote for McCain and not have him take that as support I might be able to convince myself.

McCain is suffering from some weird kind of Tourette's disorder. He goes along talking like a republican and then suddenly launches into global warming or some other loony left thinking.

The thing that makes me maddest is the clear picture in my mind; inside the voting machine with the ballot-marker in my hand, I can see the names Obama and McCain and my hand just automatically votes for McCain. I feel like a kid after they did something they knew was bad but were compelled to do it anyway. The bizarre thing is thatMcCain might win. He can beat Obama and the Dems cant give it to Hillary because a low black turnout loses them congress.

An interesting point..the Dems really have themselves in a spot.
If they choose Hil they will not only lose the black votes, they may see riots in the streets because it will be considered stealing.
If they choose Ob there will be an uprising of rednecks across the country to make sure we don't have a black in the White House . (and they won't say "black")
Hey, it's looking better all the time! and here I am complaining because we got stuck with McCain for a candidate!!
I saw in the paper today the man (Charlie something or other) who is responsible for his campaign. I want to write to him and say "Thanks for nothing!"

By the way, that post is the best analysis I have seen of what happened and what is going on in the Rep party.
I don't think anyone inside the Beltway understands this.

Excellent analysis. I have come to the same surprising conclusion as Shining City, Hillary is the least damaging possibilty. Unbelievable.