Obligatory Democratic Primary Post

Hillary won Kentucky, Obama won Oregon. Big surprise. The only thing it proves is he is the weaker candidate in the general election. But it doesn’t matter as the Dems are committed to him. They have to be. Better to lose the election than lose the black voting block for the foreseeable future. Not to mention the money from the liberal elites and the good press of the liberal media who are in rapture of Obama.

Big rumor? Obama will pick Hillary as his VP. It’s possible and about the only choice that would really unite Hillary and Obama supporters. Downside is Hillary is the adult of that pair and I can’t see how Obama would be able to deal with her, or her with him for that matter, for four years. (I don’t think an Obama presidency will last more than four. As I have said before, he is Carter all over again.)

The other big rumor? McCain might pick Joe Lieberman or Bobby Jindal, the up and coming first generation immigrant Governor of Louisiana, as VP. I like Lieberman. A lot. And picking a Democrat would really win over many moderate Dems and Independents, including much of the Jewish vote. Jindal would add youth and some color to the ticket (and if you don’t think color** is part of this race you are kidding yourself). The downside is liberal Lieberman might alienate some of the conservative base. But then again, it’s either McCain or Obama and what is the base going to do, let Obama win? I don’t think so. Especially since it is very likely that the Democrats will win both houses this cycle. Do conservatives really want all three houses controlled by the Democrats? Can you imagine the damage they can do in four years? Higher taxes, nationalized health care, amnesty for illegal aliens and a permanent open borders immigration policy, John “Silky Pony” Edwards as Attorney General, appeasement as a national defense policy. It makes me nauseous just thinking about it.

UPDATE:

After reading this, I find myself liking a McCain-Lieberman ticket more and more.

** By “color” I, of course, mean diversity. As in not just conservative ticket of “two old white men.” Not that there is anything - anything at all - wrong with old white men, or even two of them on the ticket. The problem is that the Democrats have made this race all about, well, race, especially Obama who has done his level-best to cast any attack on him and his policies in terms of his color, so there is no way that it doesn’t have something to do with the election, like it or not. And I don’t like it. But it is what it is. That said, Jendal is an extremely talented young conservative who just happens to be not be an “old white man” and therefore brings in another dimension that would be enticing to Independents and moderate Democrats. Add in the fact that is is a first generation American born from legal immigrants and he would be a big plus to the ticket. His youth and inexperience are his alleged shortcomings but I can’t see how he is that much younger or inexperienced than Obama who is sitting on the top of their ticket.