Pennsylvania: The “Keystone” to Victory in 2008?

get the popcorn out, it is going to be a fun few months

It’s a Perfect Storm………..

Clinton got what she needed, (with a 55% to 45% ten point advantage), to continue her stance that she can win the “big” states necessary to win the electoral college votes in November. Clinton’s problem, (and Obama’s), is neither candidate appears to have the ability to convince the super-delegates to put an end to the race. As it stands right now, if either candidate gets the boot by the super-D’s there will be just enough disenfranchisement in the general election to put John McCain in the White House.

While all this is transpiring, the New York Times and the LA Times continue their own process of vetting McCain smear stories to see which ones will be worth re-publishing during the general election. So far, throwing mud on a military veteran that has far better national security and foreign policy credentials than the other two “cut ‘n run” defeatist just doesn’t seem to stick. Even the fragile economic concerns can not be shouldered completely by the Republican Administration when the Democratic Party will have been in control of the House and the Senate for almost two years by November. Pelosi and Reid have wasted too much time with over eight hundred over-sight hearings and surrender/retreat legislation to prove they can do the job they were elected to do, which was to solve the nations domestic ills. Instead, their partisan politics has destroyed much of their party’s credibility. So much for the “new direction” promises the democrats made to the electorate that brought them into power. And now they have this “perfect storm” to deal with.

Raincoats and Popcorn required.

Are you serious. Obama’s gonna articulate what his “Change” is or that he “Hopes” people will not see his flaws. Obama will be easily defeated by McCain. If he cannot even beat the Wicked Witch from Arkansas, how in the world can he beat McCain. Hillary has the biggest negative rating of them all. He should have wrapped this up a couple months ago, but can get past the finish line. And we haven’t even heard a peep from the MSM about his shenanigans in Chicago wth Rezko. Just a little bit here and there. But Gov Blogojavich is sinking fast in this trial and so will Obama.
Obama atorrent of platitudes and his “Hope and Change” will not beat McCain.

I forgot about Obama’s whining that the MSM actually asked him a question and didn’t bow down to him in the last debate. How will he handle a real debate that is not against another Socialist. Or how ishe going to handle the questions the MSM will ask him in the General Election campaign. he hasa terrible case of foot in mouth disease that cost him Pennsylvania and his good RevWrng doesn’yt help. Wright will be a albatross around his neck, along with Ayers and the other leftwing nuts in Chicago.

And another thing I am not voting for Bush in this election either

As I mentioned above, the tracking poll of Gallup’s that groups Obama and Clinton vs. John McCain has not changed over the past month. All the intra-party warfare has not helped McCain, not even by a point!

He was at 45% a month ago and he’s still at 45% today. Talk about a ‘day’ at the beach! When is this man going to go to work?

Is 45% his ceiling of support?

Machiavelli speaks truth to power. The only people less happy about the outlook for the convention than Howard Dean and comrades has got to be Denver law enforcement. 50% of the Democrats at the convention are gonna be ticked. Of the 50%, it only takes a few (19 on 911 for example) to be infuriated enough to get violent. 19/a few hundred thousand is enough to make things scary. The DNC coalition is dying.

Two things come to mind
1) isn’t it interesting that the RNC nominee is so far from the extreme that the right wing base isn’t happy, but that he’s equally likely to attract or at least compete for the election-deciding centrists/independents/RINO/DINO votes….
2) If the Democrats lose this election, then people have every right to ask, “what do they freakin’ need to win?!”

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, sorry I was busy having people imply I was a racist for calling out the real racists in other threads. Thanks for the praise Scott and MataHarley; just saying what I think, and backing it up logically (when I can resist the urge to be sarcastic).
I was just going back to look through a book I read at the beginning of the year (even in our age of instant news and online blogs, old fashioned paper has a definite appeal to it). It’s a piece called “The Second Civil War” by Ronald Brownstein, and if 423 pages doesn’t sound like too much of a time commitment; he does a relatively even-handed job of sizing up the current state of politics in Washington in particular, and America in general.
I was looking for a quote that spawned my “inmates running the asylum” crack about the DNC. Now, Howard Dean was the radical left’s choice back in 2004; but even after he got knocked out by a more “traditional” Democratic candidate in the primary round, the radicals didn’t give up their bid to get their “shadow party” going inside the DNC. They baked up $300 million through the likes of George Soros, and MoveOn; leading Eli Pariser (MoveOn big-wig) to say about the DNC: “Now it’s our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we’re going to take it back.”
Barack Obama is the manifestation of the change the last four years have seen in the DNC. The most impressive trick though is that whereas the “Dean Scream” popped up right after Iowa in 2004, they managed to hide BHO’s true colors until the Jeremiah Wright story broke in March; much to the MSM’s chagrin. This meant that the cover story of BHO the candidate of “hope” and “change” was able to get the post Super Tuesday wins that put him ahead of Hillary Clinton.
As for me, without being overly precise; I spent the first eight years of my life in Nebraska (Go Big Red!), then moved out to Central / Southern California (I was educated here, and I still came out conservative), with a five year stint in Japan mixed in there.

P.S. - I went over to check out the latest on the Stop-Obama website (strangely enough they’ve been having trouble with their site being hacked). One of their writers has been talking about a pro-Obama group called “Recreate ‘68″ that is apparently planning to disrupt not only the RNC Convention, but the DNC Convention too in the name of getting BHO nominated. Who knows, maybe Hillary really is thinking that old Turkish proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” regarding BHO. Even if she and McCain do work in tandem for now, it’s purely an alliance of convenience; but, I’ll take that until the summer convention season is over.