There is one political story, this year, that refuses to go away. The Democrats, even the far leftist Democrats, keep insisting that their number one choice for John F. (Vietnam War Hero) Kerry’s veep is “maverick” Republican John McCain. No matter how many times McCain denies any interest and reaffirms his commitment to seeing President Bush reelected, the Democrats won’t give up their love affair with the pro-life war hero.
I’ve never been a McCain fan. I’m an ideologue. I don’t want to find common ground with leftists. I simply want them beaten, soundly. But that is neither here nor there. I am simply fascinated by the Democrat party’s roving eye in their search for a vice presidential candidate for the Junior Senator from Hanoi.
The Democrats and the press have thrown every grenade, RPG, rocket and missile available at President Bush. He has been wounded and is bleeding, but John Kerry hasn’t advanced. He should be up by ten or twelve points. Yet, he’s consistently within the margin of error in most polls. That is very telling. Oh, and the problem isn’t that people don’t know Senator Kerry. The problem is that people do know him.
Talk to Democrats on the street. Kerry isn’t their first choice, nor their second choice in many cases. It doesn’t matter to committed Democrats. They would vote for an anonymous candidate just to beat Bush. Hatred doesn’t win elections though.
Speaking as an ideological extremist, extremists are a minority. The politically active are a minority. Most Americans don’t pay enough attention to politics to hate one candidate or another to the extent to affect their vote. The apathetic need someone with whom they can identify and respect in order for them to elect that candidate over an incumbent.
So why do the Democrats need McCain on the ticket? It’s simple. They know John Kerry has absolutely nothing to make people WANT to vote for him and they know that the party of Ted Kennedy, Maxine Waters, Barney Frank and Fortney Stark is too kooky, too unpatriotic and too enamored of the United Nations to lead the nation after September 11.
The great unwashed masses in the Red States of 2000 cringe when they see the leaders of the Democrat party making the same statements that you hear on Al Jazeera. Leftist elites on Martha’s Vineyard and in Berkeley might cheer when the founder of Teddy’s Driving and Diving School makes a statement comparing the U.S. military to Saddam’s torturers, but people in Madisonville, Tennessee and Beckley, West Virginia know better. As Zell Miller has said, the Democrats are a “national party no more”.
Democrats can’t be who they really are and get elected nationally. Face it, most of the Democrat leaders more closely resemble Noam Chomsky than Norman Schwarzkopf. If their political beliefs don’t mirror those of Vladimir Lenin they certainly mirror those of John Lennon. Their war hero is tainted by his support of the enemy when he returned from Vietnam. Therefore, they need to borrow one from the Republican party.
In effect, the Democrats are acknowledging to the American people that they aren’t fit to lead this nation in this dangerous time. They are admitting who they are, AND who they aren't.
3 comments:
Actually, McCain is loving this attention as much as the Democrats like giving it to him. I think the Democrat party has gone astray of everything this country once believed in, and they need a VP who will, they think, balance the ticket...I think they are wrong, because as you said, McCain is a maverick, sometimes more to the left than the right. I had just as soon he boogie on over where he belongs.
They are trying to flatter McCain in hopes that he will at least make statements that he might realistically consider their offer - which can cause a great deal of psychological damage to the Republican Party. The media wouldnt let go of something like that.
I respect McCain and have enough faith in him not to worry much about it. I do not agree with him on how he prioritizes certain issues, but he's a decent guy- A REAL war hero, who didnt dishonestly slam his band of brothers during battle for personal attention.
Without the channels 2,5, and 7 constantly manufacturing negative spin on the Bush administration, Kerry would be down even lower in the polls. Kerry is basically getting the vote of every misfit and welfare recipient, aka the Gore vote. And thanks to the government bottle feeding us through our entire lives, there's many of them out there to contend with.
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