After a few weeks of vacation from their senses, the American electorate has decided to get serious again.
Rasmussen reports that its latest polling has Our Man Rudy ahead of Nurse Ratched 47%-40%.
Mommy Dearest's negatives are also back up over 50%, with very little uncommitted ground between her positives and negatives. She's stuck on unelectable.
We SWNIDishly offer that America has already made up its mind about Hillary. She has substantial support among Democrats, assuring her of the nomination. But independents have already decided that they don't like her and never will.
But independents have also decided that this time they want something that doesn't feel as Republican as Dubya. That's why Rudy does better in the head-to-heads than other Rs, even those like Romney who would probably make superb chief executives. He's what McCain was in 2000, while McCain is unable to recapture whatever appeal he had in that bygone era.
Meanwhile, has Fred Thompson returned anyone's calls lately?
Independents will take their bitter Hillary medicine if the Republican is a party retread.* So that's why it's gotta be Rudy. He's the one who can appeal to independents enough to make sure that Hillary's negatives are decisive.
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*Kindly forgive the mixed metaphors. We're in a hurry today.
3 comments:
Fred has disappeared from the radar screen, but it's still way too early to crown anybody with many crowns.
John Kerry had disappeared from the black forest just a month prior to the Iowa caucuses in 2004. But he knocked Dean off his horse in a joust of seeming knights of the round table. Dean's lance apparently was made of styrofoam. We'll see about Giuliani's in about 5 months.
As we have noted before, in recent history Democrat primary frontrunners much more frequently fall in the end than do Republican primary frontrunners. This is in keeping with the generally stable, sober and decisive nature of the Republican Party versus the mercurial, indecisive, pandering-to-special-interests nature of the Dems.
Still, you can keep hoping until the convention. After that, join us in voting for Mr. G.
You've sold me. I was going for McCain for a while, mostly due to his stance on the military (oh ya, I'm staying in now). But anything is better than having Hilary as my boss.
-Guy named courtney
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