Fall Politics
May 16th, 2008John Dickerson’s latest article, Boogeyman Foreign Policy, is a good one about the McCain and Obama campaign attempts to tie the other candidate with an unpopular leader. McCain seeks to tie Obama to Mahmoud Ahmaniac! and Obama seeks to morph McCain into George W. Bush. This raises an interesting question: who is more of an albatross to have around your neck in America? I’d like to believe that the average American considers Ahmaniac! more of a threat to the world than Bush, but immediately that is naive. People are tired of the President, and Ahmaniac! has so far done nothing but work behind the curtain and say a few nasty words here and there. However, McCain might well help stir doubts about Obama in voters by comparing him to Ahmaniac, and if Iran does something awful in the fall this might well be a shrewd and disgusting political move. Of course, I think it’s crude to compare McCain to Bush.
No one deserves that.
With this news that California has legalized gay marriage, we learn here that the state’s voters might well overturn it in November. The “worst” part of this is that it is going to allow McCain conservative voters all over the country reason to turnout in November, and it will put the focus on an issue where Republicans are in line with the American public even as Obama holds the same position as McCain. It’s already starting to feel like a general campaign.