My Canadian counter part about Obama that is:
Yes, it’s happening again, if only because the party insists on nominating amateurs solely because they’re popular with people who don’t tend to vote in general elections. It’s happening again because the Democrats refuse to believe that empty platitudes can’t beat professional politicians who are determined to win. It’s happening again because liberals are so unjustifiably arrogant as to think that people will believe in them without bothering to convince them.
You’d think that losing seven of the last ten presidential elections would have taught them something. It obviously hasn’t. I agree that if President Bush was on the ballot, Obama would whip him like a retarded stepchild. But that overlooks that a retarded stepchild would whip President Bush like retarded stepchild at this point.
It also overlooks the fact that John McCain is on the ballot and John McCain, like right thinking people everywhere, hates President Bush personally. Yes, there are pictures of McCain hugging Bush, but most adults know that this is an example of McCain being a good soldier, a concept apparently unfamiliar with the community organizing circles. Any look at recent polling proves that nobody gives a shit about McCain’s perceived closeness to Bush.
Read the rest and then ask yourself the David Broder question.