His plan on Iraq won't work and won't and can't be executed like he wants...we either pack our shit or we stay..there are no half measures. U don't wina war by bunkering down...thats what his plan amounts to. Bush had a brain as welll u might not agree since he can't speak..but he's a smart guy. Obama can speak well...I'm not sure he's a great leader he's never led anything.
In making the race about ideas and contrasting center/right, bedrock Americanism against Obama’s ultra-liberalism more in step with Europe than Mainstreet, USA, McCain would not only give himself his best shot of beating Obama, but also do a service to the nation by laying out clearly just what the issues of 2008 are. For Obama, the key to victory in 2008 (should he beat Hillary - and that isn’t a done deal yet at all) is to cloud the issues and keep the debate to airy platitudes about hope and change. In other words for Obama - like all liberals running a national campaign - the key to victory will revolve around how successful Obama is at hiding just what he believes from the American people. It is McCain’s job to force Obama to declare himself.
There is no need to get down and dirty with Obama - we only need describe his record (which is very thin, but which is also extraordinarily liberal - like it makes McGovern seem conservative by comparison) and lay out just what sort of America we’ll have if Obama’s liberalism triumphs: an America of high taxes, high spending, out-of-control government, military weakness, social decline and America subordinate to UN and EU apparatchiks. Obama still might win even if exposed as the ultra-liberal he is - its clear that he has become a political phenomena not often seen, and which is not entirely subject to normal political realities - but the fight is still worth having, and even if we lose we’ll have laid down the marker against which Obama and the Democrats will be judged in 2010 and 2012.
As for me, I look forward to this fight - I love a battle of ideas; the sharp contrast between liberal and consevative is where I love to be debating, all the time and everywhere. And, of course, if Hillary does win the nomination, then such a battle will work even better against her. So, lets have at it with gusto and with confidence that the fact that we are right will make all the might we need.
Cut from a Blog on the 08 election.
