Honestly, I resolve this in a fairly simplistic way: he's having to position to deal with the standard Republican attack methods
It's called throwing the election to McCain. The Republican faithful are not gonna vote for the darkie Muslim lib'ral no matter what, so Obama (Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, Mondale) lose thousands of votes by moving rightward, while not gaining a single vote.
And if the radical right somehow became so enamored of Obama's newfound conservativism that they ended up supporting him, then...why would any progressive even bother voting for him?
What Obama is doing is guaranteeing a McCain victory in November.
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Date: 2008-07-01 06:02 pm (UTC)Honestly, I resolve this in a fairly simplistic way: he's having to position to deal with the standard Republican attack methods
It's called throwing the election to McCain. The Republican faithful are not gonna vote for the darkie Muslim lib'ral no matter what, so Obama (Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, Mondale) lose thousands of votes by moving rightward, while not gaining a single vote.
And if the radical right somehow became so enamored of Obama's newfound conservativism that they ended up supporting him, then...why would any progressive even bother voting for him?
What Obama is doing is guaranteeing a McCain victory in November.