If Obama and Hillary run on the same ticket then I believe it will hard for McCain to beat. But as another posted wrote its is a long time between now and November.
I would have to disagree.
I think an Obama/Clinton ticket would be EASY to beat--especially for a moderate like John McCain.
With an Obama/Clinton ticket, you have THE most liberal senator in U.S. history (Obama) vying for THE most powerful position in the world, and you have THE most power-hungry senator in U.S. history (Clinton) vying for THE most powerful position in the world, but having to accept #2 until a hopefully inevitable ascension into #1.
With an Obama/Clinton ticket, you have a black man and a white woman running for office. This will doom them in the South, and you don't win the Presidency without carrying the South.
Taking that scenario one step further, you have a
liberal black man and a
liberal white woman running on the ticket. This will not only doom them in the South, but in many portions of the Midwest and almost all of the western states with the notable exceptions of California and probably Oregon and maybe Washington.
Thanks to Clinton, the First Lady-to-be now gets more attention than ever, and in this regard, Michelle Obama has simply had too much diarrhea of the mouth in terms of anti-white, anti-American, and anti-success rhetoric directly contributed to her and sitting in miles of celluoid just waiting to be exploited.
If I'm McCain's ad man, I'm salivating over the thought of an entire line-extension ad campaign just on what Obama's wife has spewed in the past few years.
Add that to the mix that suddenly Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama will have to become cozy--and we all know what happens when Bill gets cozy. . . Hillary gets livid. But no longer will Hillary be in the shadows--she'll be at the forefront. No escaping, spinning or blowing off (no pun intended) Bill's indiscretions or even accusasations of his possible indiscretions. Plus, Obama isn't going to like Bill in such close strategic or physical proximity to his wife.
And then there's the fact that with an Obama/Clinton ticket, the "junior" and total lack of experience factor will be devastatingly huge--so huge, in fact, that even the media will not be able to let it go for long.
Finally, the last crusher. . . Obama would likely never carry the military vote (to include present members serving, retirees, veterans, and for sure, actual combat vets). Neither would Clinton. But the two of them on the same ticket would have zero chance of carrying the military vote--I doubt they'd even get 5% of it, and of that, it would come from REMFs and retired generals/admirals who hadn't seen action or commanded in action for thirty years or longer (you know--the ones who become "defense" and "military" experts).
I say, "Bring it on!"
An Obama/Clinton ticket would be THE way to literally implode the Democratic Party from within for good and force it into serious restructuring and rebuilding. Sooner or later, the moderate and/or somewhat sensible Democrat Party faithful are going to get tired of all these shellackings.
Jeff
