"...Barack Obama is so McGovern-like, so far
to the left, his policies so distant from what even
mainstream Democrats consider rational, that,
once they're more broadly exposed, they'll prove
to be his undoing..."
.oOo.
Why Hillary Has to Be the Democratic Nominee
By Greg Lewis, Featured Writer
April 11, 2008
One of the most fascinating, although predictable,
phenomena of the current Democratic primary has
been the insistence by the most left-leaning of the
party's stalwarts that Hillary Clinton drop out of the
presidential primary race and surrender the
nomination to Barack Obama. On the one hand,
it's pretty typical of Democrats not to want to fight
for anything, as they've demonstrated by their
repeated attempts to undermine America's
interests in the fight against Islamist terrorists.
They're making the same argument to Hillary
about the primary as they are to the American
people about Iraq: the fight is lost, pull out.
But the reason Hillary can't pull out lies in the
numbers. Hillary Clinton is, by any sane tally,
nearly ahead of Obama in the popular vote right
now. Not only that, she will be ahead of him by
the time the primary season ends. Let's take a
look at some of those numbers.
Right now, Obama has an "official" total of
13,55,209 votes to Clinton's 12,638,123, a "lead"
of approximately 717,000. If you factor in the
Florida and Michigan votes, giving the
"uncommitted" Michigan votes to Obama, the
picture changes dramatically. Obama captured
about 814,000 votes in those two states, while
Clinton won about 1,200,000, a 386,000 vote
margin in Clinton's favor. When you subtract
Clinton's 386,000 vote lead in those two states
from Obama's official lead, the latter's margin
shrinks to about 331,000.
Now the question becomes, where did the votes
that give Obama his "official" lead come from?
The answer is: Illinois. Obama won his home
state of Illinois by a whopping 650,000 votes
over Clinton. Not only that, he won his home
base of Cook County by some 429,000 votes!
These are huge numbers. In fact, they're so huge
that even without Michigan and Florida, if you
subtract his Illinois victory margin from Obama's
official lead, it shrinks to about 59,000. And if you
add in Hillary's victory margins in Michigan and
Florida, she's ahead by more than 300,000 votes.
And if you're going to argue that you can't take
the Illinois votes away from Obama, you're going
to have to answer the questions that arise about
what his victory margin there means. And what
it means is that Obama's popular vote lead
comes almost entirely from his victory margin in
a single state, and further, from a single county in
that state! Democrats are in effect arguing that
Cook County should be the single deciding factor
for the entire country in this primary. The votes
in Illinois amount to a statistical anomaly and
nothing more.
And if you're going to argue, on the other hand,
that you shouldn't count the votes in Florida and
Michigan, then you're going to have to answer to
the voters in those states, who are going to be
justifiably incensed if they don't have a voice in
the choice of their party's candidate, and to the
point where they fail to vote in the general election
in numbers large enough to give those states to
John McCain.
This is not just a "damned if you do, damned if
you don't" conundrum; it's a situation where the
Democratic Party is showing not only its leftist,
anti-democratic tendencies but the fact that its
party leaders are blind to the fatal flaws in
Obama's character and his political inclinations
and associations, flaws that may well sink his
candidacy if he ever has to run against McCain.
The Dems' own hijacking of the primary electoral
process, worthy of the Stalinist reprobates they
remain to this day, was instituted in the early
1980s after the 1972 George McGovern debacle.
It was designed to put the power in the hands of
party leaders and not the voters so the party
could avoid putting forth a candidate of precisely
Barack Obama's ilk. The irony is that they're
stumbling into the very blind alley their primary
process reform was designed to prevent!
For Barack Obama is so McGovern-like, so far
to the left, his policies so distant from what even
mainstream Democrats consider rational, that,
once they're more broadly exposed, they'll prove
to be his undoing. That they haven't been
exposed as we might have expected by now is
largely due to the fact that the mainstream media
are so infatuated with Obama that they're unable
to do anything but coo his praises. By the time the
Dems' error in hijacking the electoral process and
shoehorning Obama into the candidacy is realized,
it will be too late. In a McCain-Obama presidential
contest, the results might just skew so heavily to
McCain that he'll sweep Republicans along with
him into the House and Senate, at least narrowing
Dems' majorities in those bodies, and possibly
enabling Republican majorities to prevail. We can
only hope Democrats don't wake up and realize
the error of their ways before their primary is
decided by imperial decree.
.o0o.
Greg Lewis is a Featured Writer for The New Media
Journal. He is co-author, with Dr. Charles Gant,
of the Warner Books hardcover "End Your Addiction
Now." Dr. Lewis is a frequent contributor of political
and cultural commentaries to several websites.
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