I know there are still four weeks to go until Election Day and two more presidential debates (including tonight’s town hall format which Senator John McCain has told us repeatedly is his format of choice), but the end of this interminable campaign has officially become crystal clear. The Republican ticket has officially run out of ideas at a time when we are in desperate need of crisis management and problem solving.
In the next four weeks, you will not hear Senator McCain’s plan to help Americans pay their bills, go to college or progress our agenda internationally. Instead, you will hear about what a terrible person Barack Obama is, how he is closely associated with radicals and terrorists and can’t be trusted to lead this nation.
This is how you know the Republicans are desperate. They can’t win on the issues because the public strongly disagrees with them. And they definitely can not claim to be the agents of change this country so desperately seeks after McCain has spent over twenty-six years in Congress. So they go for the typical Swift Boat, Karl Rove low road, which might help to rile up the base (that never really liked McCain to begin with) but will certainly drive independents towards Obama. Do not forget that Democratic registrations are up in huge numbers all over the country. The final result is that this election won’t even be close.
Americans could care less about who Obama met a couple times in 1995. If McCain really wants to go that route, it should be open season on his past associations which includes his membership in the Keating Five and a potential Treasury Secretary that called us “a nation of whiners” in the middle of a “mental recession.” I guess the stock market plummeting to its lowest level in four years was all in our heads.
Obama in a landslide.