It’s not looking good.
Sometimes the headwind is just too strong no matter the endurance and speed of the runner.
Could John McCain have fought through the various forces in play to prevent a Republican to be elected president this year? I believe so, but he would have had to play his hand much better than he did.
It’s like when your team is behind by 3 touchdowns with 5 minutes left to play; you can complain that the refs were against you the whole game, you can complain that the ball never bounced your way, you can complain the other team cheated but never got caught; but when it comes right down to it, your team didn’t do what it needed to do when it needed to do it and that’s why you are 3 touchdowns down with 5 minutes left to play.
In this case, team McCain actually started the game down by a touchdown or two because of public sentiment about the Iraq war and the perception of the economy as bad when it wasn’t.
Add to that the financial crises and bailout that occurred on Bush’s watch, never mind that congress played a much bigger role in the mess and Democrats in particular should be shouldering the majority of the blame although there is enough to go around to all of our “leaders”, and Obama picks up an easy score without lifting a finger due to a perceived McCain fumble in the end-zone.
Does it help that the refs, aka the liberal press and media, are rooting for Obama? No. But there is enough counter-noise from the right to offset the left if anyone is willing to listen. Problem is, no one seems to be listening.
Why?
Many of us have been pointing out Obama’s questionable judgement based upon his association with racists like Rev. Wright and Fr. Pfleger, terrorists like Ayers, criminals like Rezko, relationship to ACORN and their promotion of voter fraud, his socialist ideals and role models, his outright lies about his past and even about statements he has made that are all over YouTube.
The response?
Seems to range from “who cares, we want change” to “no way all that can be true”.
And that’s part of the problem.
Who cares, we want change? That has gotten this world in a lot of trouble in the past. Ask the Germans. Ask the Cubans. Ask the Iranians. When people decide anything must be better than what they’ve got, they will reach out and blindly grab hold of the first opportunity for change, and that’s when we all lose. I am hoping and praying I am wrong and will gladly admit I am wrong if I am.
No way all this can be true? That’s probably the most frustrating problem we face. There is so much negative stuff out there that I think it is smothering under its own weight. There are folks who just can not believe that all of this can be true and, since it can’t all be true, the source must be questionable, and since the source is questionable, none of it must be true.
Which brings us back to the refs. If the refs refuse to throw a flag even though half the crowd is screaming foul, those without a fan’s rooting interest (independent voters), clearly assuming the refs have no horse in the race, figure the foul never happened. The result is the cries of foul are not only ignored, they become an incentive to root for the other guy.
Unlike a football game, those new fans actually count towards who wins, and we see polling numbers shift in favor of Obama and the beginning of bandwagoning.
Can it be stopped?
At this point, the only way I see to stop this sharp shift to the left and essentially a one-party government would be for some of the negative stuff to be reported by the refs as fact, because it is too late for positive news of any kind to make a difference.
Even then, it would have to be something really, really big; something that the MSM can not ignore; something that would essentially disqualify Obama.
Otherwise, the deal may well be sealed.
