Looks like you are setting yourself up for a bit of dissapointment too. Barak Obama is all set to make reactionary changes to produce the Democratic agenda as it has been since 68.
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Do you actually READ these sentences? Is this clear to YOU?
Obama must run a campaign to sympathize with the liberal base of the party in the primary, and then must run as a moderate in the general election, because the voters are different in each election.
This is why McCain has renounced his own former views on immigration, taxes and all manner of other stuff.
Now he says he's for change, too, because only the most brain dead of drooling knuckle-walking morons want another helping of the vile Juniorbush and the repulsive Cheney.
It seems that neither candidate is going to make as lame a VP decision as Juniorbush, either. There is some really serious vetting going on in both parties.
I do not see Obama as a cure-all, as perhaps you did Gingrich.
Gun control will no longer be an issue unless it resurfaces as an amendment to the Constitution, which, like an anti-abortion amendment I don't see as likely.
McCain's scanty fund raising abilities are not really what counts here. It is the GOP, the entire Party, that can raise money from all its lobbyist pals, and a major thrust of 527's after the convention that Obama has to fear. If Obama has to choose between becoming president and losing to a bunch of veiled racist ads, then I see his raising his own money as the wiser choice. Kerry and Dukakis ran miserable campaigns, as did Bob Dole.
No one needs a rerun of 2004 or 2000 or even 1988 or 1996.
It does appear at this moment that McCain is going to do something like a rerun of the Bobdole campaign.
His wife will figure more prominently, though. I mean his PRESENT wife, as McCain has two wives, like Dole.
