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basically a ringer for the GOP, your entire campaign is actually based on cynicism. We know Obama's mob will intimidate and bully people into supporting him, and have done it in the primaries and especially caucuses, but that won't necessarily translate into any kind of win in the fall. Just the opposite, in fact, and there will be no rigged contests, no rigged caucuses to bail him out. There will be no chance to broaden his base beyond the 12-percent population of African Americans and the piddling percent of guilt-ridden latte drinkers. Obama will look pretty silly up there in a debate with a guy who has been in politics forever, who is admired as a war hero, and who is being peddled by the media as a reformer.

Old McCain doesn't have to be a shitbag, either, to slaughter Obama. He has the news media and the 527s to do all the dirty work for him. Obama will collapse like a house of cards if he gets the nomination. In fact, he's already teetering on the brink.

Since the Audacity of Hype has no shot at the White House, it's stupid to speculate whether he has the fight in him to go up against media darling John McCain.

The bigger question is why Democrats seem hellbent on screwing up--again. Are they deliberately throwing this election, just as they deliberately threw the California gubernatorial race in 2006, in hopes they can stage a big comeback in 2012? The only problem is if they are deliberately throwing this election (because of the worsening situation both abroad and domestically) they will face an incumbent administration in 2012, and incumbents always have the advantage.