FishingBanter - View Single Post - Um, Ken...DANGER, FRED ROBINSON, DANGER!!!

**[email protected]** · April 21st, 2008, 09:16 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:02:39 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Apr 21, 9:10 am, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wall and knows full well Obama will both be the nominee and
stomp that doddering old warmonger McCain six ways from Sunday.
That sound you hear is the fat lady practicing her aria.

Just a friendly warning: it was _exactly_ this attitude that lost Gore
the election 8 years ago...

Jon.

The situation as it stands today indicates there will be no "stomping"
by or of anyone. It'll likely be much like 8 years ago, damned near
50-50. I wouldn't be surprised at a real squeaker. And I'm sure
Hillary and Screamin' Howie have whole packs of lawyers warming up their
BS. Can you paint any halfway reasonable picture in which whatever
combination of Dems vs. McCain would produce anything much different?
Heck, even if the Dems have the "meltdown" that is looking more and more
possible, I can't see McCain doing better than about 55%, maybe a little
better if he picks a strong veep AND the Dems continue into a
cluster**** of a convention that Hillary takes AND Obama ****s down his
leg and settles for veep and politics as usual. I can't imagine Hillary
getting more than about the high 40s, Obama being the current probable
best of two not-so-good choices, probably in the 48-52% range, depending
on who he picks - if it's Hillary, it'll be President McCain. The US is
simply too polarized and the candidates simply have too many weaknesses,
real or manufactured/perceived.

About the only way any "stomping" might occur would be if, ahem, it were
a McCain-Obama ticket stomping the field. Since that isn't really
likely, anyone who predicts landsides might as well, oh, I don't know,
promise they'll have all the troops in Iraq out in two years or
something stupid like that...

TC,
R