Here is an argument as to why John McCain picked Sarah Palin and will win the 2008 election. It has nothing to do with Palin as a woman and something to do with Palin as an Evangelical. However, Palin will not energize the base enough to win the election but it will be enough to provide cover for Republicans to steal the election.
Otherwise there is no evidence of any large-scale movement toward McCain and Palin--who have to trek to theocratic enclaves, like Colorado Springs, in order to draw cheering multitudes, while Obama/Biden draw them everywhere they go. With Democrats all in a panic, let's recall how few Americans turned out to vote in the Republican primaries, and how few new voters the Republicans have registered to date. Compare that feeble record with the vastly larger numbers who came out for Obama (and for Clinton), and all those whom the Democrats have registered to vote. Since then, the prospects for McCain have not improved, regardless of the spin on Sarah Palin--for this economy is in the crapper, and he has said repeatedly that he just doesn't know about such things. That issue, and his wild commitment to a war that most Americans oppose, make his victory in November quite improbable, to say the least
And there you have the reason why the GOP must, once again, deploy its giant criminal machine: to cut the Democrats' vast popular advantage. And it is happening right now, as you sit reading this, as each day brings in new reports of voters purged, machines "malfunctioning," ballots slyly misdesigned, and other measures meant to benefit McBush's party. (The fraud is not occurring "on both sides.") Such evidence is far more solid than the nervous speculation that Americans might vote on racial grounds--or the fantasy that Sarah Palin's co-religionists could really win it for McCain.
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After the last 8 years, Harrogate would be lying if he said he didn't take this seriously. It is a very real threat that the GOP will seek to seize the thing outright.
The ACORN stalking horse has given them wide license to play games in Wisconsin, for example. Under the auspices of fighting vote fraud, the're fighting to rig Favre's old stomping ground before the ballots are even cast.
Gonna be fugly.
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