Presidential race will be determined in the next few days in my opinion
Posted by Mike Sylvester - 9/24/08 @ 5:42 pm - Filed Under 2008 National Elections, National Politics
Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain is staking his campaign on one issue. He is suspending his campaign to return to the Senate and discuss and vote on the 700 billion dollar bailout.
I have been disgusted with Obama, McCain, and Biden for not doing their jobs as Senators and instead running for President and Vice President.
I have a prediction to make for you.
If McCain returns to the Senate and leads the fight to defeat this 700 billion dollar boondoggle he will be the next President of the United States. He can distance himself from the Bush Administration (Since they are desperately pushing this measure) and he can get the full support of American conservatives.
Unfortunately for McCain, I do not think he understands how socialist and bad for American this plan is and I actually think he will join with the Bush Administration and he will support a modified bailout plan that will move American further towards Socialism.
If McCain supports the bailout plan I think Obama will be the next President because McCain will strongly irritate conservatives!
Mike Sylvester
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McCain is going to lose. He lost the minute he backed out of the debate. It was a foolish, impetuous idea, and the fact that it is will sink in on the electorate over the next couple of weeks.
He didn’t think it through. There is no vote. He cannot catch up on this and be a part of it. I can’t believe that he doesn’t understand how incredibly complex the interaction will be among the agencies involved and the delicate balance that Paulson must create, while a pack of dogs, the Democratic and the ultra-right wing neocons, are at his heels. No one, NO ONE will have time for him because he is irrelevant to this situation. Obama thought it through apparently and realizes that he can provide support wherever he is because he can get press coverage by simply stepping up to a microphone.
McCain made a big strategic mistake. Not only that, but the very act…the decision to go and leave the debate behind…will be itself a big black mark against him. He doesn’t sense the will of the people and the antipathy of very serious men in Washington working on a very serious problem to his coming in and interrupting…as they see it…a very sensitive process.
It was a mistake that will bring him down even further in the polls. And the surprising part is that he didn’t need to do it. He was doing fine. One week does not make a campaign.
Mike,
I will have to (surprise) disagree with you.
You wrote: “If McCain supports the bailout plan I think Obama will be the next President because McCain will strongly irritate conservatives!”
It would be more accurate to say ” would strongly irritate fiscal conservatives.” But even they are losing money, and that is where the line is drawn.
Personally, I have mixed feelings about this bailout. I do NOT want to see our economy collapse further, but I am not sure this is the way to fix it either.
My prediction is this: The bailout AS PROPOSED AT THIS TIME is nothing more than a stop-gap measure. It is only going to delay a recession until after the election.
Kevin,
I agree with you; it would have been more accurate if I would have said “would strongly irritate fiscal conservatives” since many strong social conservatives will vote for McCain either way.
I also agree with your assessment about the 700 billion dollar bailout. It would only be a stop gap measure.
I agree with your comment entirely!
Miracles do happen!
Mike Sylvester
Has Hell frozen over? Is the Pope becoming a Lutheran? Is our Common Council going to turn down a request for a tax abatement?
Wow - Sylvester and Knuth in FULL agreement on something!!! Will the earth ever stop trembling?
Interesting points from two poeople. Both admitt this is not a final FIX. Whick means, in their limited real knowledge, that things are far worse then we are being told by either party in Washington.
Kevin agrees with Glenn Beck as he posted over on the Democratic Party Blog. Beck said this “bailout” averts a 747 from dropping out of the sky and affords a hard landing. Which in my little word means instead of massive deaths there are going to be some people hurt pretty bad. To me that is a depression compared to a recession!
Now we have the talking heads, which we elected, trying to up each other and many of them are the very ones that put us in this mess by saying the “world is fine!”
What will tick me off is anything added to any package that includes adding more debt. I am not happy about this robbery (bailout) but I will be damned if I want someone to grab me a handful of dollars on the way out the door.
My Flip flop…. Having talked to a prof. at a major univ this afternoon I no longer support the bailout as it was laid out… It would have been one more sweetheart deal by congress to the companies who are in trouble. Sadly, President Bush tossed in the towel in order to get something done.
We are going to hurt like hell. It is just now or in six months to a year. I am not sure there is any program that can fix the problem.
Just wait until the other shoes fall from the sky… Not even a hardhat is going to save some…