Cainianitonson For President
The Gold Rush is on! The race to stake first claim on the White House has begun and the prospectors are leaping across the gorges, fording the swirling waters and scaling the craggy peaks of mutual attacks, dirty tricks and sudden revelations of past mistakes.
With the end of the New Hampshire primary, the field of hopefuls has been considerably narrowed. While this is only the beginning and things can change in coming days, I do think the die is cast.
John McCain gained a surprise early start, as I figured Giuliani to take the lead, followed by Thompson, who ended up way behind. I expect that Mitt Romney, now in second place, will continue to lose in succeeding primaries and finally drop out. He’s Mr. Plastic Fantastic and voters are beginning to see it. His Mormonism is also too big a hurdle for most voters to get over.
I also expect Giuliani to surge ahead, with the GOP race ending up as a head-to-head battle between McCain and Giuliani. Thompson will continue to do poorly and will soon drop out and I think it’s because he just doesn’t show enough energy, more than anything else. He reminds me of one of those bleary-eyed, long-faced old bulldogs.
Huckabee is just too strange. A little religion spread on as a topping is tasteful, but like Romney, too much is too much and people gag on it. Beyond that, the guy is just plain odd.
Going into the GOP 2008 Convention it’s going to be McCain and Giuliani. Possible latecomers like Bloomberg will be non-contenders.
Hillary Clinton is the clear front runner among Democrats. Obama will keep fighting and may pull off a few more states, but the way she confounded all the pollsters in New Hampshire is a clear indication that, unless something drastic happens, she will be the Democrat challenger on Election Day.
Why? Because she really does have it all over Obama and Edwards. Edwards comes off to me as a momma’s boy, soft and pliable, who might break down in tears if things got really tough. Obama… well, forget all the experience contentions. Barack Obama is an Islamic name from an Islamic parent, but most of all, Barack Obama is black. The majority of voters are white, and the majority of whites would rather have a white president than a black president, just as the majority of black voters would vote for a black candidate over a white one. Race is race and you can’t get around it.
In spite of his qualifications, he’s a far Left Liberal, he has a wierd name, Islamic associations and he’s black. He got as far as he has because of Liberal support, but with someone like Hillary Clinton in the ring with him, he’s a loser.
Hillary, besides being white, of course, and a woman, which is just a big a Liberal credential as being black, does have more experience, and the Clintons are still very popular with Democrats. Hillary is far more to the right than Barack, which is going to attract a lot of moderates and no doubt some fence-sitting Republicans as well.
I still feel that Hillary Clinton will win the Presidency. The GOP Bush supporters have done so much trashing of McCain that his image has a permanent tarnish. They may well have shot themselves in the foot there, as he would otherwise be a stronger contender than Giuliani but will likely lose to Rudy at the Convention. Hillarys toughest fight is likely to be against Rudy Giuliani on Voting Day, but with more voters now in the Democrat party than the Republican, her chances are good.
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January 9th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I think Clinton will be the candidate too, at least I hope so. I would rather have her than Obama. As for Fred, I’m afraid your prediction is right. It’s really sad, the choices we have to make. I cannot believe that the candidates we have are the BEST the US has to offer.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I was looking at the candidates yesterday, for Republicans Giuliani and McCain don’t look bad as they are reasonably socially liberal. But it had McCain as an open border type and isn’t Giulani foreign policy as bad as Bush’s? As for the other lot, beats me how anyone can tell Clinton or Obama apart on policy.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could vote for candidates (on both sides of the Atlantic) who we wanted to vote for as opposed to ones we vote for just to keep even worse bastards out?
January 9th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
McCain was mentally scarred by 5 years in captivity. Being a POW in Hanoi and subjected to 5 years of beatings, humiliation and starvation left permanent marks and they show. He has a sympathy for his fellow human beings that would be laudable in a priest but is a serious liability as a president, when a hard attitude is often necessary. Yes, he favors amnesty for the illegals, which is a major strike against him. So does Giuliani.
Clinton has supported amnesty bills in the past and will probably continue to do so. For some reason, both Bush and the Democrats support amnesty and yet it keeps getting voted down by Congess, which tells us that most of Congress DOES NOT support amnesty.
This is one solitary case where Congress and the American people are actually in agreement. We out here in Public Land Don’t Want No Steenking Amnesty!!!
But it looks like whoever becomes president, the effing Hispanic illegals are going to get some form of amnesty. The only thing that will temper the degree of it is their concern over the level of our outrage, next election.
And yes. A truly great president comes along about once every 100 years or so. All the rest are hacks.