THE GIFT OF OBAMA – TO REPUBLICANS

Rupert Murdoch is one of the world's savviest businessmen – but his prediction today (5/29) that Obambi will defeat McCain next November in a landslide is straightforward idiocy.

Someone could make an intelligible argument that he could come out on top in a close contest – but a landslide?  That's nuts.  For the odds are far, far greater that it will be the other way around.  McCain is going to wipe the electoral floor with Obambi.

Obambi is going to be torched by white women, Reagan Democrats, Hillary supporters, and most everybody else except blacks, academics, college kids being taught by the academics, and urban-elitist liberals whose brains have been similarly damaged by the academics.  He'll carry Oregon, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and maybe New York – maybe.  Not a lot more.  Not even California.

Murdoch would have been on much firmer ground predicting a Dem landslide in the House and Senate – but that wouldn't be news, for that's the universally accepted wisdom.  Predictions are ubiquitous that the Pubs are going to lose 10 to 20 House seats and 4 to 6 Senate seats at a minimum.  It could be much worse, a lot worse.

So much worse that the Dems will gain a filibuster-proof majority of 60+ seats in the Senate, preventing the passage of any decent McCain legislation or the confirmation of any decent McCain judicial appointment.

How ironic, then, that the hero who can save the day and rescue the helpless Pubbies from certain disaster is… the Dems' very own champion, Hussein Obambi.

Google "gaffe" and "Obama" and you will get 2,250,000 hits.  Yes, 2½ million.  By the end of May.  Can you imagine what the number will be five months from now, by the end of October?  For the incredible mistakes that I discussed last week in Is Obama On Drugs? and Jack Kelly did this week in The Amazing Gaffe-Man are going to keep multiplying.

Whatever the reason, speed or coke, brain malfunction, the combo of ignorance plus narcissism, this guy is really really not ready for prime time.  There is no possible way a majority of voters are going to entrust their personal prosperity and their country's security to him.

Which means, come October, hordes of Dem House and Senate candidates are going to be running as fast away from Obambi as folks in Biblical times ran from lepers.

Which means, come November, Dem House and Senate candidates in marginal districts or states who tightly tie themselves to Obambi are going to lose.

Call it the Gift of Obama.  The question of course is, will the Pubs have the brains and balls to accept and take advantage of the gift?

It's a rhetorical question on the whole, because the answer is obviously they don't or they wouldn't be facing disaster in the first place.  So the real question is, will enough of them accept the gift to avert catastrophe?  And the answer to that is probably yes.

Thus the Gift of Obama will keep the House and Senate GOP losses to a respectable minimum – say, around 10 in the former, 3 or 4 in the latter.  Not good, but not that bad, considering.

Now if the Pubbies on the whole suddenly, magically, acquired spines and went after the Dems' jugulars, they would gain both House and Senate seats, rather than just minimize their losses.  But that's fantasy.  Let's stick with the good luck that the Dems are stuck with Obambi – and start focusing on those Pubs willing to accept his gift.