The McCain Mutiny

Dick Morris analyzes the current Democratic Party landscape. His basic conclusion: The race is over. Hillary doesn’t have a chance.

But the interesting point of application concerns John McCain. The tension of a big blowout in the Democratic Convention, and the eventual rise to power of Obama will block John McCain out of the news and give him lots of trouble.

Morris says:

Hillary won’t withdraw. That much is for sure. The tantalizing notion that 800 insiders can offset a season of primaries and caucuses will drive both Clintons to ever-escalating rhetoric. Will their attacks hurt Obama? Likely all they will achieve is to give him needed experience in the cut and thrust of media politics.

Left out of the entire equation is poor John McCain. Unable to get a word in edgewise and unsure of which Democrat to attack, he will have to watch from the sidelines as Hillary and Obama hog the headlines. If the superdelegates deliver the nomination to Hillary in the dead of night without leaving fingerprints at the crime scene, McCain’s nomination will be worth having. If Obama prevails, it won’t be worth the paper on which it is written. The giant killer, Obama will have soared to new heights of popularity and McCain won’t be able to bring him back to Earth in the nine weeks that will remain.

We say that a real conservative could have overcome Obama. The base would have been so energized by the conservative message, and by the starkly different liberalism coming out of Obama. But alas, we’re stuck with a liberal (McCain) who won’t be able to defeat another liberal (Obama).

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