As the race for the Democratic nomination is winding down with every negative political campaign ad run, I find myself as a conservative struggling to decide whom to root against. I mean seriously, who wants a candidate in office like either of the two democrats? They have hundreds of problems they want to solve, but not a single answer for one of them, well not a single viable answer.
Listening to Rush Limbaugh between his hilarious stories about his cat head-butting him to wake him up, you will frequently find him pressing and promoting the idea that people should vote for Hilary Clinton because John McCain has a better chance of beating her. This surprisingly has seemed to have an effect. The Huffington Post reported that "thirty-six percent of primary voters said that Clinton does not share their values. And yet, among that total, one out of every five (20 percent) nevertheless voted for her in the Indiana election." They also stated that the 10 percent of people who said that they shared values with either candidate, 75 percent voted for Clinton. Through this information, maybe Limbaugh's plan to overthrow the Obama iron curtain and force the Hildebeest into the presidential race is really working.
It does seem though on the other side of the fence, polls reported by The L.A. Times showed in March that the anti-American, racist nutjob Rev. Jeremiah Wright hurt Obama. Although he did not seem to have an effect on the North Carolina primary, as Obama won by a large margin, and he almost upset Clinton in Indiana.
It seems as though the race for the nomination will come down to the superdelegates, and it might be a bloody battle until the Democratic National Convention. I personally think that either candidate who is nominated will be beat by good ole' McCain. The latest Gallup Poll reads as a tie. Forty-six percent for Clinton or Obama compared to 45 percent for McCain. But with a margin of error of plus-or-minus three percentage points, this poll seems relatively invalid. For now, a victory by any candidate seems unpredictable. My feelings are, you have a candidate with lots of experience as a senator, but who has no idea on what she wants to do with the country, and another candidate who has no idea what he wants to do, except he wants to waste $845 billion (almost 1 percent of our Gross Domestic Product) on Africa. We also have someone who was captured, tutored, became an American hero (unlike John Kerry), has been in the Senate and in the House since before just about every undergraduate at Ohio State was born. This seems like a no brainier to me.
Ben Schwarzwalder can be reached at schwarzwalder.3@osu.edu.
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JJS
posted 5/09/08 @ 3:06 PM EST
Wow....and here I thought there weren't any good Conservatives remaining at OSU. Mighty brave of you Ben, I tip my hat. I can only imagine the onslaught of bleeding heart, left wing posts that will follow my praise of your ability to see the truth. (Continued…)
JRR
posted 5/09/08 @ 5:14 PM EST
I'm so sick of you right-wingers thinking that McCain's sh!t doesn't stink. He talks about openness, but he won't even release his wife's tax returns. (Continued…)
Eddie Murphy
posted 5/10/08 @ 1:00 AM EST
This is a terribly written piece of trash. Articles like this are the reason we Republicans are going to hand the election to the liberals in November. (Continued…)
Katie
posted 5/10/08 @ 2:32 AM EST
This article should not have been published, not because it lacks original thought and borrows most of its arguments off of right-wing talk radio, but because its author lacks understanding of politics, statistics, and the English language. (Continued…)
A.J. Schwab
posted 5/10/08 @ 7:50 AM EST
I can't say that I agree with your political views but the polling numbers that you cited from The Huffington Post caught my eye. I thought that Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" would have some effect on the democratic primaries, but it was surprising to see some numbers that seem to back that up. (Continued…)
Stephen
posted 5/10/08 @ 8:22 PM EST
"This seems like a no brainier to me."
Irony is awesome. I had to read it twice to be sure it said what I thought it said. Ben Schwarzwalder might just be the "no brainiest" individual on the Lantern staff. (Continued…)
Elijah
posted 5/10/08 @ 8:37 PM EST
In your last paragraph, you state that McCain was "captured, tutored, became an American hero.." and then you end with "Seems like a no brainier to me". (Continued…)
Benbo
posted 5/11/08 @ 12:18 AM EST
I'm not certain how to respond to this article, because you are all over the map. Your thesis appears to be that Obama and Clinton "offer no solutions". (Continued…)
Emmett Hoveh
posted 5/12/08 @ 1:21 AM EST
Simply shocking. Wow.
I can't even add anything to the list of criticisms, I think everything's been said, but goodness gracious!
I know I really shouldn't be so surprised by this kind of stuff, but wow. (Continued…)
Tim R.
posted 5/14/08 @ 2:13 PM EST
If I'm not mistaken, Ross Perot looked like a little monkey too with big ears. OMG I'm a racist!! Emmett and A.J. love playing that race card! Is the term Hilderbeast racists/sexist towards animals? (Wilderbeast) You guys have waaay too much time on your hands. (Continued…)
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