for dems - then I consider it pro McCain as that is the effect. Let me go get some links - I will edit this post to include them.
Here is one some thoughtful points but with the inevitable line of President McCain:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4569580&mesg_id=4569580My very politically astute mother urged me not to write this article, deriding it as mere 'common wisdom' and perhaps beneath the high quality of punditry which I aspire to maintain. But I'm afraid the thought keeps nagging at me and I can't resist, even if I'm stating something which may seem a bit facile and even obvious to some.
The thought occurred to me looking at the results from Super Tuesday and has been reinforced in the week since then — and with the outcome of subsequent primaries. The dynamic of this primary election for the Democrats seems inexorable. It's like watching a trainwreck in slow motion, knowing that disaster is coming but also knowing that there's nothing which can be done to sway the juggernauts from their track towards destruction.
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Any way you look at it, the situation for the Democrats is much more precarious than you would expect, given the disunified and discredited state of the Republican Party. The irony of McCain's primary victory over all the objections of the far-right, is that he is the one candidate most capable of reaching across party lines and offering a welcoming hand to Democrats and independents who feel betrayed by the Democratic Party. Unless the Democrats come up with some sort of miracle they're heading towards a smash-up from which they may not be able to recover.
Can you say "President John McCain"? Get used to it.
This fits into there is no way the dem will win McCain is inevitable genre.
Here is another:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4569670 really haven't been keeping up with the other side, but McCain seems to be more popular than even Reagan was. Is it because he wants more war? I really think it should be Rudy who is getting the GOP nomination. Not that I want to see Rudy as Pres., but he would be better than McCain by leaps and bounds.
Note the premise of the post is that a republican would win - and the claim of McCain being more popular than Reagan - again no evidence, per my earlier post.
On a slightly different note - here is a thread also reacting to the McCain will win/inevitable threads (ala someone also tired of the tactic)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4568973If you repeatedly post that Obama is going to get creamed by McCain in the GE...
...and then don't pledge to do your very best to make sure that doesn't happen when BHO DOES win the nomination...
...aren't you setting up a self-fulfilling prophecy? And isn't that kinda hypocritical?
There was one I saw earlier - but can't find so I'll keep looking that was a candidate inevitable thread - I rolled my eyes and didn't pay close enough attention to read whether it was "if Hillary is elected say hello to President McCain" or "If Barrack is elected sa hello to President McCain"
In MY interpretation all of those threads touting the inevitability of a president McCain - work as a pro McCain thread - even if that is not the intent. To which I return to my original post - put up or shut up ala give the evidence of such inevitability OR just come clean with your agenda (often "SUPPORT MY CANDIDATE!")