Day: May 28, 2008

Dems v. Dems = McCain profit? Not necessarily

“Even old-time Clintonites were appalled” at Hillary’s claim that RFK’s assassination in 1968 justifies her staying in the race, says Robert Novak.

The most important political impact of Clinton’s conduct is to make Sen. Barack Obama’s task as nominee more difficult. For the first time, we hear serious talk among Democrats that the party may not be fully able to join ranks at the convention in Denver in late August.

“The hostility on both sides is intense,” he says, with O. boo’d by pro-Hillary unionists in Puerto Rico and Obama-ites crying “feminists” as their enemy.  “The longer this continues, the more difficult will be reconciliation.”

This doesn’t mean McCain’s ready to capitalize on Dem disunion.

His biggest problem may be failure to realize that the Republican coalition is not fully united behind him. The most recent defectors are lobbyists expelled from his campaign who are not happy about their treatment. We continue to hear complaints from evangelicals, economic conservatives, and other critics of McCain. The refrain continues from conservatives that maybe the country and the GOP need four years of Obama.

Great.

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Al-baloney

Vaclav Klaus, the Czech Republic’s gift to common sense and overall smarts, would like to debate Al (there’s-money-in-global-warming) Gore, but G. is not interested.  It would only elevate the skeptics, he says, as John Fund reports in Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary.

But he may have another motivation for avoiding Mr. Klaus [writes Fund]. As the late William F. Buckley once put it, “Why does bologna reject the grinder?”

Klaus yesterday likened cap-and-traders (limiters by fiat of carbon emissions) to promoting a program such as Soviets imposed on his country.

Yes.  Central planners are all alike — like smokers at their pettin’ parties and poker games.  They just gotta have another way to run things.

Later: Here’s another approach:

Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 by “hosting a barbecue, going for a drive, watching television, leaving a few lights on, or even smoking a few cigars.”

The point: the group wants to “help Americans break free from the ‘carbon footprint guilt’ being imposed by Climate Alarmists.”

Yes, a sort of kill-the-guilt program.

 

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