| HappySqurriel said: I could be wrong, but I don't think the Republicans could have hoped for a better result from the Democrat's primaries. With such a close competition which will (likely) last for months Obhama and Clinton are going to engage in progressively more agressive and divisive politics; certainly, they will attempt to appear like they're just in a friendly competition but a combination of subtile digs and leaks to the media will do a lot of damage; John McCain doesn't even have to work to put a negative spin on either candidate because the dirt will be dug up by the Democrats, and the message will be spread by the Democrats. When this is finally resolved there will (potentially) be a lot of bitter feelings on both sides of the competition and the supporters of the losing candidate might have difficulties voting for the winning candidate; it will take a lot of time to heal these divisions and the length of the primary campaign is eliminating the time that is necessary to heal these wounds. John McCain is not (particularly) liked by conservative republicans but, at this point in time, his job is simple ... In order to win he just has to let the Democrats battle over who's big-government social program isn't liberal enough, who's too inexperience or lacks judgement, and who engages in the most double-talk, and then just convince the conservative republicans that no matter how bad he is, he will be better than any of the Democrat candidates. |
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