January 22, 2008
The GOP needs a bigger boat
Byron York reports on the Democratic race for the nomination.
I went to Barack Obama’s rally here [Columbia, South Carolina], on Sunday night, with a Republican friend who had never seen the Illinois senator in action before.
Watching the crowd of more than 3,000 fill up the convention center, watching the people send up waves of energy to Obama, and watching him play off that energy in a speech that was one of the best political performances anyone has seen this year, my Republican friend said, simply, “Oh, s—t.”
He recalled the scene from Jaws, in which the small seaside town’s sheriff realizes how big the shark he’s tracking truly is, and says, “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
What my friend didn’t have to say was that he was deeply worried that Republicans just don’t have a bigger boat.
I watched the Democratic debate the other night, and while Obama still doesn't impress me on substance (there's no there there), he blows the doors off Clinton when it comes to charisma. He's handsome, smooth, youthful, tall and thin, with a terrific speaking voice.
Hillary is a hectoring, shrill, angry harridan who makes my ears bleed.
She's beatable -- in large part because of her extreme quasi-socialist positions, but also as a result of her cancerous personality.
Obama?
He's another story entirely.
Oh, sure, his policies are just as old-school, state-controlled, socialist B.S., but the packaging is so much more appealing.
Who would beat him: McCain? Romney? Giuliani?
Any one of those guys has a shot at knocking Clinton out of the ring, but I'm not sure there's a sure-fire winner to take on Obama in the general election.
Read the rest of a Byron York's piece on the juggernaut that is Obama.
Posted by Mike Lief at January 22, 2008 01:51 PM
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My conservative boat just went down like the French fleet . . . voluntarily. Will we sit the contest out, pouting about our lost honour? Or will we accept the banner of somebody who might throw us an occasional bone?
The angst, the drama, the dilemma . . . I might go on an eating binge to compensate.
Posted by: The Little Coach at January 22, 2008 03:59 PM