Now it's up to the Democrats

I agree with this analysis:

...the bigger challenge for the Party will be how all the conservatives make peace with McCain. If Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, they will argue, persuasively, that Romney may have been a better GOP nominee. Against Obama, McCain is the old man versus the young man, the old way versus the new. Romney, at least, can make a much stronger argument against Obama’s soft-headed economics.

But if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, then we really do have one of the great national contests on our hand — and the McCain haters will have no hoice but to get on board.

I like McCain, but even I have to concede that he'll seem pretty old and tired compared to Obama. Conservatives may not vote for the Senator from Illinois, but they probably won't make a special effort to vote against him, either. If it's Hillary, on the other hand, they'll hold their noses and support McCain.

The real question is whether the Democrats will pick the candidate for whom half the country will never, ever vote, over the candidate everyone finds fresh, exciting and conciliatory. Amazingly, it looks like they'll do just that.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at January 30, 2008 07:36 AM