He wishes

Jonah Goldberg thinks the Democrats are imploding.

Hardly.

The Door's prediction: Hillary wins and asks Obama to run with her. Obama, in the name of unity and change--and becoming president when Hillary is done--accepts. Hillary, Bill, Chelsea, Obama, and Obama's wife and kids have a huge group hug on the last night of the convention. Then, teary-eyed, they sing "We Shall Overcome". Balloons, cheers, record 10-hour standing ovation.

Representatives of the mainstream media experience Nirvana.

It won't be easy for John McCain to compete against that.

Comments

[Roundabout]

I don't know if McCain can beat Obama. But I'm damn sure he won't beat Clinton. Therefore, Republicans or Clinton haters who think the current brouhaha is amusing will find out the joke's on them if Clinton gets the nomination.

People should be doing whatever they can to prevent her from getting the nomination because if she gets the nomination she's going to the White House.

[JorgXMcKie]

If you want to bet on a Clinton/Obama ticket, I'd like a few bucks worth. After what it would take for Clinton to get the nomination from Obama there's no way Obama supporters would see him joining with her as anything but a betrayal.

*IF* she gets the nomination, Obama is perfectly lined up to cruise to the nomination in 2012 or 2016, depending on whether or not she wins, and if she does how popular she is in 2012. He gets nothing from joining her that wouldn't already be his.

[Braden]

I'm curious--where do you guys think InTrade is getting such strong biases that it's reporting Obama 6% for the VP nom and Clinton 15% for the presidential nom and 10% for the presidency? (I agree, Jorg; I'd like to short Obama VP.)

[Max]

The dark horse candidate, riding in on his white horse to save the Dems, is Al Gore.

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

Hillary has had high approval negatives for years. Barack is rapidly moving toward her numbers as more Americans hear about Jeremiah Wright's sermons. It's hard to see how their joining forces would make the Dem ticket stronger.

[le br@1n]

GHB has buried Mccain. Hickabee, Rancedo, et al will probably feel glad they weren't the sacrificial candidate.
Of course "anything could happen" before the main election, so Mccain has a chance. I doubt he'd trade weapons for al quaeda taking a fall (hoping to repeat the political success of Reagan's arms trade(s) with Khomeini).
Whatever happens, the cycle's inexorably shifting as Der Reagan Youth gerontrifies into history...

[le br@1n]

eh, errata: "GWB has buried Mccain."