Everything that could go wrong!

Sticking with my new theme of nailing my blogs down to 3 points, I am going to sum up my impression of the insurmountable task of winning this election for the Republicans:

1. BUSH: Or as the pundits would say BUSH BUSH BUSH as all 3 major reasons. Pretty much every human being in the W--O--R--L--D (and most animals too) are ready to see this Cowboy ride off into the sunset. Probably hoping that he would fall off the horse on his way out! I need not elaborate on his many failures. The problem for McCain is that he was campaigning against himself. He tried to appeal to the conservative base, he promoted many of the most unpopular Bush initiatives, he failed at any point to distinguish any meaningful issues in which he would turn us around from the failed policies of Dubya..
2. Caribou Barbie: At the end of the day, most would put the Economy ahead of this colossal flop, but there is not one person Obama can help more for his successful campaign than Sarah Palin. She appealed to NO ONE but the "extreme right" of the Republican Party. The Clinton supporters McCain had hoped to sway were essentially frightened at the thought of her being a "heartbeat" away from the Presidency. So much so, Obama raised $10M the night she spoke at the Republican National Convention. Most stating they were so inspired by her speech that they gave as much as they could to the Obama campaign to make sure to keep her away! What is funny is the move by Arizona Jones to pick a woman was a stroke of genius. When Obama was first asked about it, the look on his face was like, "Oh, this is a good one John, you got me with this one." Caribou Barbie was immediately labeled as unqualified, but that Katie Couric interview will go down in history as the catalyst to the unraveling of the McCain campaign. It was sooooooooo bad that even the SNL parody on the interview could not match how funny her poor performance was in the actual interview. She proved that she could make a good stand up comedian, but never outlined what makes her qualified to be the VP. She was unqualified, incompetent, and unknown? Lastly, the role of "sexism" in politics is strong, but Arizona Jones forgot that it exists strongest in his own party!!
3. Race and Class: At the end of the day the Republican Party has to realize that they need to focus a lot harder on voter turnout and voter registration than on voter suppression. The Republicans can no longer win elections completely disregarding minorities. Running around the country talking about Joe Six Pack, Hockey Moms, Joe the Plumber, Small Town America, and "Real" Americans to minorities pretty much sounds like, "C'mon White people let's stick together and let these Blacks, Mexicans, and all the other foreigners know that WE still control this country." If the Democrats get the full electorate out to vote every year they will crush this type of rhetoric every time. As for class, McCain never made the case for the Middle Class. He spent so much time talking about Obama he failed to articulate what HE would do. Obama spent so much time defending his plans because he a-c-t-u-a-l-l-y had some plans, McCain didn't have any and Obama is the one that was really saying the things that Joe Six Pack wanted to hear.......