McCain might win

Despite Common Sense's reluctance to endorse Senator John McCain's bid to be the next President of the United States because of fundamental disagreemnts about substantive policy issues, McCain may actually end up winning the White House. With his campaign in tatters toward the end of last year, John McCain is a modern-day Lazarus. His fortunes changed right around the end of the year when two things occurred: there was evidence that the surge in Iraq was actually working, and working well, and the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto. Suddenly, McCain was seen as the toughest and most reliable hawk on the war in Iraq and the overall war on terror. He rode those two events to the Republican nomination.

Now that he's the nominee, more good fortune has come John McCain's way, namely, that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are tearing themselves to shreds to win the Democrat nomination. Clinton's win at all cost strategy appears to have taken hold as the drive-by media have now gotten much tougher on Obama, particularly on Obama's twenty year relationship with racist Minister Jeremiah Wright who just resigned from Obama's campaign. Moreover, Obama has had to hit back at Clinton (the red phone ad) calling into question her integrity as she flip-floped on her vote to authorize the war in Iraq in the first place. The last time the Democrats nominated a flip-flopper, John Kerry, he was so savaged by Karl Rove during the Democrat's primaries in 2004 that by the time the Swift-Boat vets got to him in the summer of that year, Kerry was already defined as another weak liberal who just did not understand the threats the United Sates faced in the world.

History has funny way of repeating itself but this time it's not the Republicans and Swift-Boat vets who are defining the Democrat candidates, it's the Democrats themselves! According to Clinton, Obama is not yet ready to hold the highest office in the land, but yet she would love for him to be her vice presidential nominee! And according to Obama, you just cannot trust Mrs. Clinton. Who benefits from all of this infighting? Of course, the answer is John McCain who has not yet had to campaign against either Obama or Clinton directly. McCain if off this week to Europe and the Middle East looking rather "presidential". So, while the Democrats continue to hammer it out all the way to Denver in August, John McCain seemingly gets closer and closer to the White House with each passing day.