Republican Turmoil and Democratic Unity

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Republican Turmoil and Democratic Unity
Submitted by pmcarpenter on Sat, 06/28/2008 - 7:28am. P.M. Carpenter

THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter


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Finally we have the economic conservatives, who were once the nearly exclusive core of the traditional Grand Old Party.

But oh how times have changed, and back when the maverick McCain was actually a maverick he insulted their tax-cutting obsessions and they, like the good Christians, have yet to forgive him, or trust him. Apparently they're also like the Corleones: they never ask a favor a second time. And John's been waking up with a horse's head ever since.

So, what has all this mass discombobulation left Senator McCain? Yet more headaches, that's what -- nary a thing, with Democratic unity back in play, for him to hang a hopeful hat on.

George Bush's approval rating is stuck in what's not even a reasonably clean toilet; nevertheless in a colossal Catch-22 McCain must largely ideologically identify with the still-pro-Bush crowd (can it still be called a crowd?) or risk alienating whatever base is actually there.

Add to that McCain's support of a war that Americans no longer want anything to do with; a declining economy his party is perceived as responsible for; the increasingly real and still-developing phenomenon of "Obamacans"; his recent and easily assailable history of gargantuan flip-flops; a cash-poor operation; the worst delivery since Tom Dewey; the imposing emergence of the Libertarian Party, which in critical states like Georgia with its Georgian candidate could inflict great harm; and, perhaps above all, the political fact of life that Americans are simply sick and tired of Republican rule.

My friends, John McCain has troubles -- big, really big ones.

Further add Democratic unity to the mix, and it's hard to see how he'll ever climb out of them.