No. McCain has no shot here. McCain could dig up GEORGE Romney and he’d still lose Michigan.
It didn’t help when during the primary McCain told Michigan’s manufacturing unemployed that their jobs were gone and they needed to get over it.
He has no shot.
What’s the matter with Michigan? Do they expect the U.S. president to ban all automobile imports? Create some Michigan Relief program? Sign an executive order forcing American manufacturers to magically re-create those jobs and hire everyone back at $80k/year?
That’s EXACTLY ...
What the Dems, left-wing eggheads, and UAW expect a President of the United States to DO for Michigan!
Our clueless, Canadian, left-wing Governess - who has been in office SIX years now - STILL blames her GOP predecessor AND keeps trying to hammer home that non-sensical point: that Michigan’s economy is the worst in the country because of GEORGE BUSH!
Day after day after day after day ... .
McCain was just as right when he told Iowans that ethanol was NOT the new “Texas Tea” and they shouldn’t tie their future to it.
DECADES ago, Michigan was warned that the manufacturing jobs were drying up and that youngins had better prepare to do something else for $50k-$75k per year (like get a college education) instead of following daddy and granddaddy into a dying work place. They didn’t listen. Liberals are always going to blame others for their own lack of foresight.
I guess I hope Powerline is wrong on this one. Frankly, however, I don’t see too much difference domestically between an Obama presidency and a McCain presidency. The only thing that will get me up and out the door on election day (I lead a lazy life) is thinking of national security...and let me tell you I’m going to be moving pretty slowly that day. My election site is literally 200 yards from my front door. I wonder if I can tiptoe through the tulips that far to vote for McCain.
McCain IS running a silent candidacy. Except when he is reaching out to Democrats and *independents*. There will be no broken glass Republicans this year.
So...I am grateful for the following: I live in a community where we don’t need to commute for over an hour to get to places of employment and so the high gas prices will not have as big an impact on us as would otherwise be the case. We are locked into fixed (low) interest rates on our mortgages which are almost paid off. Only two of us so the high food costs will be more manageable plus I’m a good cook and can adjust.
Unfortunately, I think my nieces and nephew, who are in about the same stage of their lives as I was during the Carter presidency, will be similarly affected. Will be in their 30s before they can buy a house (one was lucky AND smart enough to get a fixed rate loan 3 years ago), using their budgets to pay for gas and food and to pay off those pesky student loans to attend state universities. Good thing they were not affimative action admittees to Princeton and Harvard because then their lives would REALLY be bad!!! They might actually be making 300K a year for a make work job and be worried about sending their kids to summer camp and paying for ballet lessons...perish the thought!
So, basically it will be Carter redux. Hope that there are no hostages let alone another 9-11 on Obama’s watch.
Re “the argument from fundamentals,” my financial advisor says that the dramatic rate cuts by the Fed will not ‘kick in’ until July or so, and the effect should be salutory for the economy.
By then the collapse of the housing bubble will have rippled through the market as well.
That leaves energy, particularly gasoline/diesel prices.
Assuming the campaign to pacify Sadr City is successful, and Iraq settles down, there are two things that President Bush can do this summer that will greatly improve any Republican’s chances in November:
(1) Announce that Iraq has agreed to ramp up oil production to, say, double Saddam-era levels.
(2) Announce that Iraq will henceforth pay us a royalty of 5% on every barrel of oil sold, until the costs of the Iraq Liberation have been met.
I am confident that these two moves will not only move Mr. Bush’s approval ratings into sunny territory, they will also propel John McCain to victory.
Re “the argument from fundamentals,” my financial advisor says that the dramatic rate cuts by the Fed will not ‘kick in’ until July or so, and the effect should be salutory for the economy.
By then the collapse of the housing bubble will have rippled through the market as well.
That leaves energy, particularly gasoline/diesel prices.
Assuming the campaign to pacify Sadr City is successful, and Iraq settles down, there are two things that President Bush can do this summer that will greatly improve any Republican’s chances in November:
(1) Announce that Iraq has agreed to ramp up oil production to, say, double Saddam-era levels.
(2) Announce that Iraq will henceforth pay us a royalty of 5% on every barrel of oil sold, until the costs of the Iraq Liberation have been met.
I am confident that these two moves will not only move Mr. Bush’s approval ratings into sunny territory, they will also propel John McCain to victory.
/Mr Lynn
Anyone else want to chip in to help send Mr. Lynn to Washington? If we could get him there to whisper in a few ears, more would be accomplished than anything the professionals have done in years!
But I’ll still try to convince them that most Americans are ‘can-do’ people, not defeatists who will submit to being taxed into third-world status. And I urge you all to do the same. Maybe if we shout loudly enough, the Senator will hear us./Mr Lynn
PS Thanks, Relish!
I’d like to believe that what I do counts. I send in suggestions and ideas to the McCain campaign, cc: Cindy McCain and our local Lincoln Club. So far none has returned as undelivered. Besides, I heard the Chairman of Lincoln Club make a reference to one of my suggestions.
We cannot afford to be taxed to death, that’s for sure.
Re “the argument from fundamentals,” my financial advisor says that the dramatic rate cuts by the Fed will not ‘kick in’ until July or so, and the effect should be salutory for the economy.
By then the collapse of the housing bubble will have rippled through the market as well.
That leaves energy, particularly gasoline/diesel prices.
Assuming the campaign to pacify Sadr City is successful, and Iraq settles down, there are two things that President Bush can do this summer that will greatly improve any Republican’s chances in November:
(1) Announce that Iraq has agreed to ramp up oil production to, say, double Saddam-era levels.
(2) Announce that Iraq will henceforth pay us a royalty of 5% on every barrel of oil sold, until the costs of the Iraq Liberation have been met.
I am confident that these two moves will not only move Mr. Bush’s approval ratings into sunny territory, they will also propel John McCain to victory.
/Mr Lynn
Anyone else want to chip in to help send Mr. Lynn to Washington? If we could get him there to whisper in a few ears, more would be accomplished than anything the professionals have done in years!
Kudos, Mr. Lynn!
Heck,
I will donate if he is willing to run for office!
never mind whisper in ears, shout it from the house well.
