ozemc wrote:Yeah, Go Obama.
HAHAHAHAHAHA ... snort ... giggle ...
Oh wait, you're serious, aren't you?
There's no way Obama is going to win the presidency. Regardless of his "Oprahization", he is even further to the left than Hillary is. More than likely, Hillary will win the Democrat nomination.
Like it or not, this is a middle-of-the-road country, and the further to either extreme you go, the less chance you have being elected in the general election. Look at McGovern in '72, Carter in '80, and Mondale in '84. And, just to make it even, Goldwater didn't win in '64, either. Or George Wallace in '68. Those are probably, in my opinion, the most recent examples of the most extreme candidates getting the nomination of their respective parties.
Obama is generating a lot of press now and gone up in the polls precisely because primary voters are the more extreme and more likely to get involved. Most of the country will not even pay attention until the middle of next year.
If Obama is the nominee of the Democrats, count on a BIG republican win.
And what pray-tell is going to motivate these fired up Republican voters to deliver a win to the GOP in 08? Openly racist sentiment against Obama? Open Anti-feminism against Hillary? Anti-mormonism against Mitt? A love of everything great and wonderful that has happened in the U.S. since Bush's election 2000?
The things that "energize" so called value voters is plain old bigotry and a love of the status quo.
Who on the Republican side is going to be able to bring a message of change or hope that will mobilize these voters to their "cause"? Elections aren't won or lost on which side you think is right and no matter what, the GOP lost the message years ago. Most Americans, including myself from a conservative background, wouldn't cast a vote for another Bush or his ideological buddies to save my life. You undersetimate the number of people who feel the exact same way for a variety of reason.
Keep telling yourself Obama can't win. It will make your shattering disappointment all so much sweeter to me in 08.