Let us now dissect the past month and a half of US Politics in a few hundred well chosen words.
President Jo Jo The Idiot Boy has kept a very low profile as a lame-duck President, as he should. He’s still an idiot of the first water: Even the National Association of Village Idiots are offended by his very existence.
With Cheney cooped up in the Undisclosed Location, dining alone on human flesh now that Karl Rove is gone, Cheney is contemplating the seating arrangements in Hell. I suspect that Cheney is wondering if he will be seated next to Vlad the Impaler or Ed Gein.
Barack Obama has become the Blessed One for the Democratic party after a somewhat civilized battle with Hillary Clinton. So far the Dems have not imploded into fractious battle groups clawing at each other. Obama is not the ideal choice, but since Hillary would not take the VP seat, which would have been an almost perfect political storm, Obama and Biden is still a solid ticket with a few caveats.
Joe Biden is a walking verbal IED. The sooner the Democratic party straps a ball gag on him, the more likely the Obama-Biden ticket will win. Biden is a very intelligent and very experienced legislator with the foreign policy chops that Obama needs to win, but Biden should only be transported to public events in the Hannibal Lecter mask and restraints wardrobe. When it comes to back-room dealing, Biden is the go-to guy, but don’t let him out in public.
John McCain is running as far away from the Bush Brownshirts as fast as his feet can carry him. I have a certain fondness for McCain, despite his party affiliation, as he occasionally talks sense.
I will even admit that the best government that the United States could have for the next four to eight years would be John McCain as President with Barack Obama as Vice-President. It would be a good mix of strength and compassion while repairing the eight years of Bush, Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld running roughshod over everyone who wasn’t on their personal speed-dials.
Sarah Palin is an interesting unknown. I’m not going to throw her under the bus yet, despite her inexperience. Paired up with McCain now, she will be a force to be reckoned with in 2016 as long as she doesn’t take herself too seriously and learns the ropes from a veteran like John McCain. Palin is the future of the Republican party and actually appears to be an almost normal member of Republican society.
Notice I qualified that: Almost Normal and Republican. I don’t like her position on oil drilling, the environment and her bible-thumping, but that doesn’t mean Palin isn’t a bad choice. Palin might turn out to be a choice of exceptional wisdom for the future that the Bush-dominated Republican party could never foresee.
Now to call it. Obama and Biden and a Democratic majority, but McCain and Palin will make a very good showing.
I’m also going to predict it might even be a civilized campaign, as the race isn’t going to be close enough for the Republicans to go nasty right away. Besides, the Republicans know that if they do go nasty, their slate is weak.
The Democrats also should know that a lot of voters might cut Palin a fair amount of slack, so unleashing Biden on Palin would cause a backlash that would cost the Dems the White House. Circumstances almost force both sides to give up negative campaigning and talk about, God forbid, policy and platform.
What the final result mean is that the Republicans, even if they lose, are moving into the future, instead of living in 1976. The Democrats had best adapt quickly, as they’re still stuck in a 1960 Kennedy Camelot dreamland.
This election is where the bench strength and the new blood for the future is groomed. Watch for the new names in Congress and the Senate.
RoadDave 