A really nasty question that no one wants to touch

Will the nomination of Obama drive Latino voters to McCain and maybe even permanently to the Republican party? I am not trying to fear monger or play some race card on why Democrats shouldn't vote for Obama. I think it is a legitimate question considering the less talked about race issues between black and brown voters. Living in Los Angeles gives me a unique perspective on the relationship between the two and I think this is a valid question. I don't think the question is relevant in regards to the current nomination process, but I do think it is something people will need to think about come November and maybe further into the future.

Please understand that I am not trying to single out Latinos as racist. You can find racists in every culture. I think the question needs to be answered because the Latino voting block is exploding and will have a massive affect on politics in the future, which it rightly should.

If this is true, the Democratic party is going to have to find a way to pull these voters back. Karl Rove found a way to get them in 2000 and 2004. If Obama is nominated, I think Democrats will have to do the same. If this question is ignored, Democrats could have problems in years to come.

The Fat Man's Fat Head

Have to post this now and will comment later....Rush has lost it. He is backtracking and looking like an idiot in the process.

"If I really wanted to torpedo McCain, I would endorse him," Limbaugh said on his radio show. "Because that would send the independents and liberals who are going to vote for him running away faster than anything."

"What people don't realize is that I am doing McCain the biggest favor that can be done for him by staying out of this," he continued. "If I endorsed him thoroughly and with passion, that would end the independents and moderates, because they so despise me and they so hate me."

"Couldn't it be said, if somebody wanted to…that I am secretly supporting McCain, because I secretly do want him to win, but I know full well that if I come out and endorse him, he's cooked?" Limbaugh asked. "Who may be in this whole kit and caboodle, this who shebang, the most valuable asset McCain has?"

"Me."

Arianna Huffington, I never cared much for you

Huffington has always been a little crazy. She is like the Ann Coulter of the far left, just not as lizard-like as Ann. Her opinions are usually over the top and whenever I see her in a debate I want duct tape her mouth shut. Huffington almost always starts out with a logical argument and then turns into a rabid dog by the end of any debate. If any of you have seen her on Bill Maher, you know exactly what I am talking about.

Today Arianna has gone after John McCain an article called "End of a Romance: Why the Media and Independent Voters Need to Break Up with John McCain", saying about McCain, "If you love George Bush, and all that he's brought you over the last seven years, you're gonna love John McCain." She goes into a rant about McCain loving Karl Rove and McCain wanting to spend 1,000 years in Iraq. This is from the same woman that had invited McCain to be a guest speaker at one of her own conventions.

I'll give Huffington some credit. She did briefly go into why she liked John McCain at one point in time. Huffington wrote, "The old John McCain once stood tall as a fearless leader on immigration, co-sponsoring a humane, bipartisan reform bill with Ted Kennedy." Sadly, she fails to mention campaign reform, voting against tax cuts for the rich, and forming the gang of 14 that kept the far right from appointing hard core conservative federal judges. McCain also supports embryonic stem cell research and is firmly against torture, another reason the far right does not like him.

Ms. Huffington takes a very "what have you done for me lately" stance, ironically the same stance Ingram took with McCain at CPAC, with a man that has been very moderate and independent throughout his career and is in the middle of winning the Republican nomination. What exactly is he supposed to do? Tell the far right to go to hell and then get destroyed in the general election?

She isn't being fair to John McCain. I guess I shouldn't expect fairness from a liberal extremist. They are now in attack mode...go after the opposition no matter who it is. A fair warning to you Ms Huffington, John McCain will be returning to the Senate and he is not the kind of political beast you want to upset.....don't make John McCain angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry.

Novak and Estrich on focus point

Susan Estrich from Fox News just wrote an article that mirrors Novak's. Susan doesn't drop in details this time. Novak was murdered on realclearpolitics by readers that caught him on his bad data and maybe Susan was smart enough to look at the response before putting out her own article. It looks like the Republican machine is back on the march. They don't want Obama and they will do anything to keep that from happening. I would quote her article, but if you have already read Novak's, then there is no reason to read Susan's.

I think the Republicans are a little delusional right now. Clinton will not be much easier than Obama and if they keep tearing down McCain, November will be a cake walk for whoever wins the Dem nomination.

Novak's The Bradley Effect

I just finished a horrifically written and disturbingly biased article by Robert Novak. Novak, in a pathetic and transparent attempt at scaring the American public, played the race card today. America won't vote for a black guy, implies Novak. It is the Bradley effect all over again. He uses California as his premise and bad data to back it up. First he states that two polls showed Obama winning California, when really only one of those polls had Obama ahead.

"Zogby and SurveyUSA polls showing big Obama leads in California, it is argued, were just plain wrong."

SurveyUSA had Clinton ahead 52-42 on the day before the election

Then he says that people, not wanting to be seen as racist, just said that they voted for Obama, when they really voted for Clinton. Novak conveniently forgot that a large number, 42%, of California ballots where mail in ballots. A lot of these ballots were most likely mailed off before Obama made his push.

The truth is, Novak and his conservative masters, want no piece of Barrack Obama. Hillary is an easy target, but Obama seems almost untouchable. If Bill Clinton can't even imply race, then what is a Republican to do??? As much as I like John McCain, Barrack Obama would destroy him in a general election....Novak knows this and is doing whatever he can to make sure Hillary is the nominee.

What Novak doesn't get, is that George Bush has insured that no Republican will win in the general. McCain doesn't have a chance...voter turnout alone is proof enough of this.

Mr. Novak, and I use "Mr." loosely, we can see the fear in your lies.

The AntiBush

The anti-Bush is getting killed today in the...how to say it...more religious than intelligent states. But that gets me thinking about McCain and his favor with moderate and independent voters. I think it is because he is viewed as the anti-Bush. Between his battles with Bush in 2000, his record against Bush policies in the Senate, and his constant rattling about the need to fire Rumsfeld, I think McCain has set up himself up as the one guy that won't be George Bush. After the complete "thumping" the Reps received in 2006, the moderate Reps are looking for an anti-Bush, but a pro war guy that won't pull out of Iraq.

It also didn't hurt that Rudy had a horrible personal life and was pro-choice, pro-gun control, and very gay friendly. For some reason Rep power brokers thought that being the Mayor of 911 would make conservative voters forget about those things...out of my cold dead hand, said the conservatives to that. Fred, who really was the guy that could unite the blue blood reps with the social conservatives, simply didn't appear to care. Mitt put up a good fight, but in the end, you simply couldn't trust that his change was real change or just his current stance in order to get the nomination. Huck is still fighting the good fight and pulling in delegates. Personally, I think the only reason he is still in the race is so people won't accuse him of working with McCain to get rid of Mitt....and believe me, they would, and they still might!

Super Delegates to the Rescue??

It's the new buzz word. Superdelegates! Talk about disenfranchising voters. There is nothing moderate or middle of the road about giving hundreds of people more say in an election than millions of voters. Caucuses are bad enough, but superdelegates? My goodness, I bet the Democrats are kicking themselves for not getting rid of this little kink in their primary process. I know people in the midwest that stood out in the freezing rain so they could take turns caucusing in a building that was too small for the turnout. 1200 people took turns in a tiny building, 100 at a time, caucusing for the person they felt would be the best person for the job of President. And Joe Blow political brown noser gets to cancel out those people with his one vote. How fair is that?