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29 Aug 2008 10:05 pm
Did He Just Blow It?
A reader writes:
It is SO over for McCain.
He just jumped the shark so badly I'm surprised he didn't choose Tom Cruise instead.
Once the Republican talk-radio/chattering classes are finished acting happy, reality will sink in.
The Republicans that will be happy about this are the ones that have
now become as disconnected from the average America as the Elite East
Coast Democrats they despise (Hewitt, Limbaugh, Dobson, Hannity). They
are reading America wrong and McCain is following them into the abyss.
The average Hillary voter would never support a woman like Palin. They
are anathema to each other. And the average middle-class Mom is going
to say, "What's a woman with children that young (and one with Down-syndrome) doing thinking that she can leave them everyday to be a
Vice-President or possibly President?" Yes, she's a governor of
sparsely populated Alaska now, but to be the 2nd most important person
in the United States in our post-911 world is not the place for a very
nice, young mother.
McCain was suffering an enthusiasm deficit before,
and once the initial hype passes, the silence will be deafening. I
predict a blow-out now. Gravitas was McCain's strongest asset and by
choosing Harriet Myers Jr., he took the Rovian gambit too far. This
will only mobilize and excite conservatives who already loathed Obama
from the beginning. And even then, they will just be hiding their
disappointment.
Who knows? History is rarely this smooth.
(Photo: Max Whittaker/Getty.)
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