March 23, 2008

Richelieu on the Coming Obama-McCain Matchup:

The short version of his post at the Weekly Standard blog: if Obama takes the nomination, McCain should grab Hillary's voters:

McCain wins by being acceptable to the independents and white Democrats who will inevitably, over time, crumble off Obama's imperfect reality. He loses if he becomes caught in a partisan base versus base contest with the Democrats. The job for Team McCain is not to tear down Obama, it is to give those who will become increasingly disenchanted from him (Hillary voting blue-collars, Jews, moderates) a reason to see McCain as acceptable. This means McCain should return to his roots and run as the different kind of Republican he truly is. The GOP base will not enjoy this, but they--sorry AM radio crowd--will not control the outcome of this election. Ticket-splitters and swing voters will.

Yeah. That sounds about right.

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1 Then conservatives have to go back to the basics in recapturing the GOP. Maybe this time goons like Tom DeLay won't be invited to help screw it up.

Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at March 23, 2008 07:08 PM (IpB84)

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