itsmeeeeeee

after losing in 04 in what should have been a slam dunk to a complete moron who'd started a war, one would think dems wouldn't underestimate the importance of NOT fucking this one up.

Analysis: Democratic battle helps McCain

Analysis: Democratic battle helps McCain - Yahoo! News

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 23 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - John McCain's standing in the presidential race grows stronger each day as he benefits from the increasingly personal and extraordinarily protracted Democratic nomination fight between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

Not that he will publicly recognize his advantage.

"I'm glad to be where we are" but "there's a lot of hard work to do," the certain GOP nominee told The Associated Press last week, dismissing the notion that he has an upper hand for the general election as the Democratic primary tussle continues.

Even with the Clinton-Obama struggle, polls show either candidate would be in a tight race with McCain, who readily lists a host of tall-order tasks ahead. He must raise money to compete with better-funded Democrats, energize a party that was divided over his candidacy, introduce himself to voters beyond his Vietnam war-hero status, and outline a vision amid a call for change after eight years of President Bush.

"There's a sense that we have an opportunity to win the national election when we didn't have a prayer six months ago," said Terry Holt, a Republican and adviser to Bush's re-election campaign.

...there's no question among Republicans and Democrats alike that McCain appears better positioned than he was just weeks ago while Clinton and Obama look more battered every day. While the Republican campaigns without an opponent obstructing him, the two Democrats are engaging in petty spats and confronting credibility-damaging situations — an exaggeration about Bosnia for her, and a former pastor's incendiary remarks for him.

"It's becoming alarming. The daily back and forth is diminishing both Democratic candidates," said Steve Murphy, a Democrat who ran Dick Gephardt's 2004 campaign. Meanwhile, he added: "McCain has carte blanche for a couple of months."

At the very least, the Democratic family feud is elevating McCain.

"He's able to go out there and be the statesman, and that's valuable," said Chris Lehane, a Democrat and former aide to President Clinton. He said McCain also benefits because there's no Democratic nominee to challenge him on his missteps.

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cheapseats

I am stern and disagreeable, I realize that. That is because I am SO PISSED.

I have been warning FOR MONTHS that Democrats are playing right into Rovian hands and a Republican victory.

Is it coddling and comforting the people want, or is it correction? Y'all have backed yourselves into corners more remote, reassuring yourselves that intense shoulder-to-shoulder comraderie bespeaks strength when, in actuality, it is fewer people crammed in a tighter space.

Every single one-name-like-a-star Hillary die-hard and every single one-name-like-a-star Obama die-hard should have been rallied these many months, like troops, behind a new Commander-in-Chief.

Soooo, what's Plan B?

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itsmeeeeeee

same here, my friend.
that's precisely why i'm to the point of finally losing it with this nonsense!!!!

hillary's fate was sealed after wisconsin numerically.
i gave her a couple more primaries to cut deeply into obama's lead - and she didn't - nor can she.

now, i'm on my last nerve with democrats.
they are a bunch of idiots who never fail to unite for the good of the country.

if they don't recognize the tremendous opportunity they're blowing THIS election, i'm convinced they NEVER will. if they are willing to play russian roulette with an election like this, if they are willing to blow off the millions of new voters that one candidate is bringing to the party on behalf of a candidate that much of the country can't even stomach - they are doomed, and by extension, WE ARE ALL DOOMED.

this is precisely WHY i refuse to become a democrat. they don't play with their heads.

and this is exactly WHY independents, and much of america in general, so frequently just don't even bother to vote.

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HarperLee

I am about ready to do what Larry David did weeks ago and beg, "Let
Hillary have the nomination already."

You and RK and I seem to be the only ones pointing out how egregiously dishonest the Clintons' new mantra that "every vote must
count" is. Bill Clinton knows better than that. Hillary Clinton knows
better than that. Most people who have ever voted in a presidential election should know that. But does the MSM point out their latest
lie? Oh, no! Bill Clinton gives PSAs on how every vote must count.

As I said in another post this morning, I am older than God, and this
is the first time ever that my primary vote has mattered.

Since Bill and Hillary have made it very clear in the past few days that they will take this fight to Denver -- so that every American's primary
vote will count [projectile vomiting], I have been shocked and saddened to see pundits and posters I respect agree -- "that every
vote should count".

What has been revealed since Hillary failed to be anointed as the Democratic nominee on SuperTuesday is that she is arguably more
right wing than John McCain -- her membership in "The Family", her
new alliance with Richard Mellon Scaife, her huge contributions from
the defense and health care industries, the support of Rush Limbaugh,
Ann Coulter, Fox News, et al.

But by all means let Hillary drag this to Denver. If she is not anointed
in Denver, let an Obama crippled and maimed by 5 more months --
count them, five: April, May, June, July and August -- of Rovean
attacks by the Hillary campaign -- get the nominaton and have barely
two months to campaign against McCain. And then the pundits and the posters here will get to say, "America will never be ready for a black president."

HarperLee

Another ugly irony that just occurred to me: the reason that Michigan
and Florida insisted on having early primaries was so that their primaries would count. Get it? New Hampshire and Iowa always get a lot of money and a lot of press because of their early primaries.
For decades the Democratic nominee has been selected long before
many states have held their primaries.