The perfect strategy ... quit while you're ahead!
While riding to and from Olympia, Washington today, my close friend Bill Puckett (who is the driving force behind UFOs Northwest) and I came up with the perfect Obama strategy: Drop out of the race this weekend!
Think about it ... for every day that this campaign goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that the Democrats are self-destructing. Hillary shows no sign of quitting, although she's behind in just about everything except her ability to embellish a dull war story. And no matter what the count might be in June or July or (God forbid!) August as regards delegates pledged to BO and HC, the party of FDR and JFK will be in no shape to beat John McCain or even Mickey Mouse, for that matter, in November.
That's right, neither one of the two finalists can win in November!
So ... all Barack has to do to insure his nomination and election in 2012 would be to state that "for the good of my beloved fellow Democrats and for the good of the nation, I must step aside!"
Of course, he should make some conciliatory statements about his "worthy opponent" and promise to support her in the general campaign, but in a Messiah-like gesture he will state that he simply cannot bear the devastating divisiveness which is threatening the Democratic Party.
By doing it now, he will clearly be tossing Hillary to the sharks. The anger of the Obama teeny-boppers (and others from among the Obama purists) will be like none ever seen in an American campaign ... ever! Poor Hillary would be the butt of political cartoons for decades to come. No one will be more hated by members of her own party than Hillary--who refused to quit back in mid-March ... or earlier ... when she was behind in states won, popular votes, pledged delegates and God knows what else.
She may even select Saint Barack as her running mate, but to no avail.
It will be a landslide in November and, come 2012, when President John McCain is still promising that a victory will result from the 23rd "surge" in Iraq, Barack Obama will walk to the nomination and election effortlessly.
All he has to do is announce tomorrow that he is OUT OF THE RACE!
Hmmm ... do you suppose that's why so many otherwise savvy Democrats are racing to endorse Obama ... so that they won't go down with Hillary when Obama steps aside?
Interesting thought ...
posted by Dr. Joe @ 11:00 PM
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3 Comments:
First of all, let me say that I'm a Democrat who likes both candidates. I voted for Obama in Ohio's primary, but I like Hillary too; her policies are almost identical and she's smart and a quick thinker. Now, to comment:
1) There was a Slate article posted a few days ago that said the same thing... in one clean sweep, Obama would restore his image of the atypical, clean politician, put an end to this mess, and get a chance to beef up his resume and distance himself from Wright before running again. Good idea.
2) The flaw is that Hillary has a greater chance of beating McCain in the GE, even without the support of AAs in Southern states (which will go red - LA, NC, SC, GA, AL, TX, OK, etc.) and affluent liberals in CA and NY (which will go blue for either candidate).
Each candidate is winning the typical blue states - MA, CA, NY, OR, WA - but only Hillary has the lead in swing states.
She's one point ahead of McCain in FL, but it's deep red for Obama against McCain; Obama falls 15 pts. behind. Ohio is blue when it's Hillary against McCain (she's 9 points ahead), but it's red for him (he's 6 points behind).
No FL, PA, OH = no White House, plain and simple. I'm from OH and can tell you Obama won't win here. He has pockets of support here in Cleveland and Columbus, but the majority of the state is rural with blue collar workers who want Hillary to restore our economy. They also are Catholic, have guns in their homes, and dislike Obama for his comments about religion and guns. Whether or not they accurately understood his message is definitely debatable, but they took it as they heard it and loathe him for it.
I find Obama's campaign fresh and inspiring, and I hope he'll one day be our president. However, I'm 100% convinced McCain will win the 2008 presidency if Obama is the nominee based on the fact he's crushing Obama in the critical swing states for Democrats.
I think Hillary emerging as the nominee will be a safer bet for Democrats in the fall. People are so focused on the math of the primaries that they're ignoring the electoral vote math come November, and Obama falls far behind in the swing states Democrats need, while Clinton thrives.
Yes, I just went to Slate.com and found the article. It's good to know that various folks are making the same sensible suggestion.
I really don't think that either candidate can beat John McCain ... certainly not if the election were on, say, May Day this week.
Joe
I don,t know about anybody else, but I will probably vote, for McCain, because I think he will be a very good president and it is about time we get a good one in and one that they won,t kill and the way the world is now a days we need someone that knows what he is doing.I have learned alot while this campaign has been going on and I can give all the credit to Dr.Joe and I am planning to learn alot more, before this campaign is over with.
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