I can’t quite get over what has happened with this US presidential election. John McCain was doing so well, yet like a pacemaker in a national hunt horse race, McCain has flagged off badly and has gone from front runner to a fucking donkey on the verge of pulling up.
Anyone who likes a bet, as I do, will know how it feels to support a runner, only to see it embarrassingly tail off. I’m no Republican supporter, but I put my bollocks on the line on this blog by predicting a McCain win. I’m already discredited, and if I were a betting tipster, I’d be running up the street wearing a false moustache, wondering how I can change my identify before being lynched.
The media has done a good job of explaining how well McCain is doing in the polls in the battleground states. Not only is he trailing in all of them, he’s losing a lot of strong Republican states too.
This isn’t because of disillusionment with Bush. McCain was doing well in the polls a month or so back. This is because his campaign has been a complete fuck up, in addition to The Idiot factor. To say he has stumbled over the last half dozen fences would be an understatement. McCain has proverbially unseated the jockey. The election has turned out to be a formality, with the question being: how much of a landslide will it be for Obama.
Virtually everyone has written off McCain, and virtually everyone, almost including Palin the VP candidate, has lumped on Obama for President. I’ve never heard of anything like it.
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I feel sorry for McCain. He’s made all sorts of mistakes: tacking right to mop up angry core voters and to get people riled. Bringing The Idiot in as VP candidate. Failing to address the economy properly. Yet it does seem that his potential has been largely missed. Obama looks good, but that’s pretty much all it has been about for him – looking good. McCain, on paper at least, has more to offer.
McCain shouldn’t really be this far behind. But he is. It’s gone so bad for him, it almost looks as if people like Nader and Jackson could do better.
Goodbye, Republican ticket. And remember – if you want to win elections, try and create an image of strength and ability. This means telling supercilious pricks like Sarah Palin to fuck off.
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John
Have you considered he may be doing it on purpose? Maybe he’s taken a long hard look at all the shit that’s going to hit the fan in the next couple of years and decided he doesn’t want to have his name associated with the bad times that are coming – let Obama take the flak and in four years the Repulicans can come back and ’save the day’ – for once they might be thinking long term
McCain would have to be incredibly altruistic to choose this path. He’s in his 70s, so there’s no later crack at the whip for him.
I can’t see him falling on his own sword, to save the long term prospects of a political party that doesn’t even like him.
He’s a maverick and he was and is in it to win it.
The fact that people like yourself are speculating in this fashion, speaks volumes about how abjectly horrific McCain’s campaign has been – it almost looks as if he’s doing so badly, he’s trying to throw the fucker down the drain.
On the basis of experience and thought-out policies McCain seems to have had an advantage over Obama at the start of this campaign but is now trailing so badly that it appears to be a foregone conclusion that he will lose. I struggle to believe that with all his experience he is running this campaign so badly which is why I’ve started to think it a deliberate act. What other reason is there for such a poor performance?