How does Hillary (or anyone for that matter) beat McCain?

[fujiyama]

OK, so I know what Hillary supporters were saying about a McCain vs. Obama matchup - he's not experienced.

My question is - why does Hillary have what it takes to beat him?

It may look like he'll be nominee after all. How can she beat him?

And don't just say "he's old". Tonight's win proves, he really still has it with independents. For whatever twisted reason, many still like him.

How does she get past that? How does anyone for that matter?

[AX10]

1. Dermocrats did better with the Indies than the GOP did.

[lvx35]

7. Can you link to sources on this?

It might disrupt my "McCain gets the Indies" theory if its true; I thought McCain had deep indie support, more at least than Huckabee.

[jgraz]

2. Edwards polls very well against McCain

As he does against all Repugs.

[Deep13]

9. I know he does. nt

[NMDemDist2]

3. this was McCain's last hurrah. the open primary saved him

the Republican base won't vote for him he's going nowhere

[Renew Deal]

4. McCain will not be their nominee. Probably Huckabee.

[AX10]

14. Huckabee or Romney would be their weakest.

[Deep13]

5. I know it will be hard to compete with JM's 10 million year troop commitment.

Don't worry. Romney has a much better organization and much more money. On Feb. 5, that's what will count. In Nov. we will be up against a far more difficult opponent than a dinosaur from AZ.

[geek tragedy]

6. McCain will beat her easily.

The media loves him and voters of both parties like him and see him as honest. That is not the case with Clinton.

[Warren Stupidity]

McCain is a tired old doofus,

Clinton, Edwards, or Obama can easily defeat that sack of potatos.

[Xipe Totec]

8. Just show them this picture

[Konza]

21. "I'll keep troops in Iraq for 100 years" n/t

[JI7]

10. we need Huckabee to beat McCain

[mth44sc]

11. they play McCain's speech from tonight

providing it doesn't put everyone to sleep - that should work...

[ecstatic]

12. WTF? Mc "I-would-invade-Iraq-anyway" Cain is done

only NH refugs are dumb enough to put that senile asshole in first place.

[BlueStater]

13. By exposing the fact that...

...he says he would have attacked Iraq even if he knew they had no WMDs?

The fact he wants us to stay in Iraq for a thousand years (his own words)?

The fact that he once joked about bombing Iran?

I think that's significant enough.

[lvx35]

15. He can't play the uncertainty card against Hillary

about "knowing what we are going to get in dangerous times". But its the card Obama is most vulnerable to.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

16. A draw on national security and she will blow him away on domestic nt

nt

[HughMoran]

17. Did you see the speech that old mixed up codger gave tonight?

He couldn't even beat an independent!

[Occam Bandage]

18. Both Hillary and Obama got more votes than he did tonight.

[Steely_Dan]

19. I Hate To Sound Like A Sore Loser...

I think that the only person that would have handed McCain his ass would have been Biden.

-P

[jasmine621]

20. She just did it in NH. More votes than McCain.

Is this fact lost?

[Sparkly]

22. As I posted elsewhere, Clinton and Obama EACH got more votes than McCain! nt

[Warren Stupidity]

23. No shit.

Sometimes we are in fact a miserable bunch of defeatocrats looking for the cloud in every silver lining.