Irony

There is such wonderful irony inherent in the McCain ascendancy in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. The talk radio wing nut faction of the Republican Party hates McCain, as do the evangelicals. They view him as a liberal. Big business Republicans have disliked him as well over his stance on campaign finance and taxes.

The right wing of the Republican Party will be apoplectic tomorrow when Rudy (9/11) Giuliani endorses McCain on the sacred holy ground of the Reagan Library. Then, Nancy Reagan will endorse her friend McCain and all will be lost. The Reagan conservative extension of Goldwater will be finally cast asunder.

It was only eight years ago in South Carolina that Rovian swift-boating killed McCain's chances for the 2000 nomination with the charges that he had fathered a “black baby." The Rovians (they sound so alien) must be beside themselves. It is hard to imagine how far we have come. Eight years later, the claim is made that Obama has fathered not one, but two “black babies” and he wins the South Carolina election. Although, the actions of former President Clinton have been Rovian in their mean spirited and manipulative intent, it appears the voters are not taking the bait.

Hillary Clinton’s cynical claim of victory in Florida this evening was pathetic. When you peel back the facts you find that Obama won more votes than Hillary among those voting by absentee within the past thirty days and voting in person today. She won among those voting more than thirty days ago. Whoopee!! In the face of the recent Obama surge and increasing momentum I believe there is a chance that Obama can claim a victory in a majority of the Super Tuesday states next week.

Obviously the Clintonites are running scared. I found it interesting yesterday and today that a couple of Clinton spinmeisters referred to their candidate as variously, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Hillary Rodham. After very consciously dumping her maiden name some time ago, it was clearly an orchestrated and not too subtle move to use language to distance her from her husband.

A friend of mine said today that he had been in a room of 200 with Obama in San Francisco recently and had never seen anything like it. He called him “Barackstar.”
The Clinton’s haven’t seen anything like it either, and they most assuredly don’t like what they see.