The Unity Ticket: Obama Needs Hillary to be His Cheney

McCamy Taylor

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Wed Apr-16-08 04:53 PM
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The Unity Ticket: Obama Needs Hillary to be His Cheney

Edited on Wed Apr-16-08 04:55 PM by McCamy Taylor

Yeah, yeah, flame away. But I am going to prove this with numbers.

First, here is a gallup poll that breaks down McCain, Obama and Clinton support by education which another way to indicate class in the US.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/106381/Obama-Education-Gap-Extends-General-Election.aspx

Gallup analysis has demonstrated that in the Democratic nomination contest, Clinton's strength is currently among voters who are high school graduates or less and Obama's is with college graduates and postgraduates. But even in a general-election contest, educational differences are still evident.

If Obama is the Democratic nominee, McCain would appear to have a good chance of making inroads among voters with a high school education or less, who normally vote Democratic, but he would find himself in a tougher-than-usual fight for those who have a bachelor's degree only.

A Clinton-McCain election would be fought on more familiar partisan turf, with Clinton faring better among voters with the least and the most formal education, and McCain receiving solid support from those with a bachelor's degree.

The fact that in a Clinton-McCain contest, the education differences largely disappear when taking into account voters' party affiliation adds weight to the notion that such a contest would largely be fought along party lines, while an Obama-McCain matchup could change some of the normal Democratic and Republican political coalitions.

What does this mean? Obama/Clinton becomes Bush/Cheney in a purely numerical/political sense---I am not talking about their souls or characters. Obama has the wide appeal and the nontraditional characteristics that will allow him to �poach� traditional Republican voters. Since these voters will have college degrees, they will be relatively well off---they will probably have jobs with benefits and for the moment they will be sheltered from the effects of the economy. This will allow them the luxury to select whichever candidate they believe best embodies the spirit of America or will make America respected again in the world---the �hope� candidate---since they will not have as many pressing immediate needs. They can vote for purely moral issues, like the war, on which Obama has such a stellar record.

Hillary will reach out to the Democratic base�the group that does not have a college education and which has born the brunt of the lay offs and loss of industrial jobs�the same way that Cheney reached out to the Republican base for W. She will be able to keep McCain from �poaching� from the Democratic base the way that W. poached from the Democratic base in 2000 with his good old boy I'm just a compassionate conservative act. This is going to be McCain's strategy with his maverick-straight shooter-I spent 5 years in a box campaign.

Hillary�s current high negativity rating will not mean squat as a VP candidate. A vice presidential candidate's job is to criticize the opposing team. Cheney was an asshole. The only person who had to like him was W. Hillary can be as spunky as she wants, and she will be doing the VP's job. Plus, the public knows that she and Bill can handle a foreign policy crisis----this takes away any concern that Barack Obama may not have passed the commander-in-chief test. That was another function that Cheney served for W.

Neither candidate is going to win this on delegates---as long as Michigan and Florida�s contests are declared illegal. Super delegates will decide it. However, if Florida is snubbed, the Democrats may have to kiss goodbye a key state. The Obama/Clinton ticket should placate the voters of Florida and Michigan. They can be told that Super delegates have decided that this arrangement is the one most likely to prevail this fall.

If Hillary is not included on the ticket, her loyal following within the Democratic Party is likely to do what McCarthy supporters did in 1968 and Humphrey supporters did in 1972---this is part of the RNC�s brokered Democratic Convention strategy. Even if Hillary Clinton herself campaigns for Obama, the corporate media can fan the flames of resentment inside the party by writing articles in which they suddenly discover that Obama and his supporters were criticizing Hillary and planting stories about Hillary and saying nasty things about Hillary at the same time that everyone was calling Hillary a bitch for unilaterally attacking Obama. If the NeoCon press backs McCain, which they almost certainly will do, they will want to contrast his �good guy� image with a picture of Obama as a dirty Daley style politician (McCain�s camp has already announced that this is their strategy) and uncovering every unkind sexist remark that an Obama surrogate ever said about the former first lady in a Washington Post expose would be the best way to do this. Recall that McCain has recently issued an order that his people are not to criticize Hillary at all. Why do you think that is? It isn�t because he thinks he will run against Hillary in the general election. Everyone knows that Obama will be the nominee. McCain plans to make sure that when they launch the smear Obama only got nominated because he used sexist dirty tricks against Hillay that the Obama camp can not find a bunch of sexist stuff that McCain and his people have said. McCain is going to present himself as a gentleman and Obama as a sexist pig.

All it will take is a couple of journalist coming forward and saying "This Obama staffer/surrogate gave me this memo or asked me to run this story about Hillary without saying whom I got it from, and at the time I didn't think much about it, but now it troubles me, because...." for the shit to hit the fan. Remember, "Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab)" and "The Race Memo" were both examples of that kind of politics that blew up in the Obama camps face. There just might be more out there, stuff that went to journalists who were not honest enough to reveal it immediately but who decided to share it with their bosses at the RNC and hold it until the general election.

This kind of smear can finish Obama off in the general by turning women---a key Democratic voting group---away from him. This is probably the number one reason that he and Hillary need to defy all expectations and get on the same ticket. If they are running together, it does not matter what they said to or about each other. That was all just politics. No hard feelings. They can laugh about it together over whiskey shots.

Obama and Clinton need to swallow their personal animosity and their ambition---yeah, I know that Bill wants to be president again, but he has plenty to do being ex-president. And I know that Obama is going to be very uncomfortable having Hillary and Bill there telling him what to do, but he can just tell them to shut up if they are being annoying and they might actually have some good advice �and do it for the good of the country.

If no one listens to me, which is usually the case, I will come back once the Obama stole the nomination with sexist dirty tricks smears start with a great big I told you so. But I won�t enjoy it. As many times as I have been right about what the RNC and their whores in the MSM have been up to, you would think that someone would listen to me by now.

That call from McCain for his supporters to not attack Hillary should have been a great big warning flag to everyone. When have Republicans ever not attacked Hillary? Drudge says that McCain wants to face Hillary in the General, but when has Drudge ever told the truth?

http://drudgereport.com/flash1jm.htm

Look at that photo? Doesn't McCain look like a kindly, courtly feminist friendly man? McCain was making himself out to be a first class defender of women. Now, why would he do that unless he plans to smear Obama as the biggest sexist pig since Archie Bunker in the general.