Of Liberals and Their Nerves

Says an arbiter of nervous white thought? Talk about wishful thinking!

I think you missed my point. Democrats are in an interesting position of choosing a candidate whose rhetoric is far left, but who will govern, if her husband's terms are any indicator, from slightly left of center, or a candidate whose rhetoric is centrist, but who gives every indication that he will govern from the far left. They also know that the GOP will try to hard-sell McCain as a conservative, regardless of the fact that he is actually to the left of Hillary on most practical issues. When combined with the fact that, polls notwithstanding, Obama has been irrevocably associated with black radicalism, nervous white liberals, especially those with convention delegate status, will be inclined to vote for the candidate least likely to get the Rove-style treatment handed out by the GOP to both Gore and Kerry (but especially the latter).

...nervous white people, most notably those leaning to the right, are doing all they can to break this race down in terms of race.

Horse manure. The most reliably racist politicians are black. Scan townhall.com or NRO all you like, the only time Obama's race is even mentioned is in reference to the fact that black liberals and the old media have made it an issue. The alphabet networks, as well as AP and Reuters have Obama being racially persecuted by ghosts, when in fact, if they weren't talking about it, no one would be. And unless you consider the Clinton campaign to be "leaning to the right," nervous white people on the right couldn't care less whether Obama is white, black, or purple. The whole racist pastor incident had Clinton fingerprints all over it.

...it won’t surprise me when choosing a new president turns into choosing an international ambassador and fixer of homeland financial woes.

Then, as with just about every other issue that concerns Joe Average, we're pretty much out of luck. There is nothing that Democrats do more reliably than screw up foreign policy, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that McCain's blossoming love affair with the noecons means nothing but trouble for us on that front. With respect to the economy, the only thing that can save us now is a laissez-faire capitalist, and all three of the remaining so-called viable candidates are hard core socialists. The Keynesians support the only economic system that has more hard evidence of failure against it than Soviet-style communism. Bottom line: no matter which of the three oozes into the Oval Office, we're pretty much screwed.

...will vote for Obama because he’s cool.

Which is no dumber than Republican women who vote for Hillary because she has ovaries, but still right up there on the dumbass list with drunk skydiving and tiger baiting.

McCain will be supported by born Republicans, and that’s about it.

True if Hillary is the Democrat pick. In fact, I know a number of pubbie True Believers who won't vote for McCain. However, the Clintons really did a number on Obama with that racist pastor bit. Democrat True Believers will be unshaken, as your newspaper poll shows, but the whispering has begun. With images of Cornell University, Malcom X, and Obama's middle name swirling around in the background, whether they are fair or not or not, the stage is set for casting Obama as a poison pill.