Hillary Clinton cannot beat John McCain!

We can put aside all of the reasons that have been given for not nominating Obama because of his inexperience or for not nominating Hillary because of her early Iraq war stance, because there is one fact that eclipses any of those.

Hillary cannot beat John McCain!

It is clear that McCain is now the Republican candidate, and it was a smart choice for the Republicans to make. John McCain is a maverick that will appeal to the independents, a hawk that will appeal to the pro-war voters, a fiscal conservative that will satisfy the true conservatives, and a man of leadership who will appeal to those who are just looking for somebody to fix the country.

But John McCain’s fatal flaw is that he is for a war that the majority of the country is against. The way to beat him is to focus on the fact that he wants to continue this war, and even possibly expand the war into Iran.

Almost any Democrat could have challenged him, and probably beaten him, on this one overriding issue. Everybody that is except Hillary Clinton.

Hillary has two very weak points in her political armor. One is Bill (I will get to him later) and the other is her vote in support for the war, her continued support for the war after it became unpopular, and her inability to admit that she made a mistake in voting for it in the first place.

Hillary is essentially the last of the Democrats who campaigned for President to start talking about bringing the troops home, and also the last to start calling it a mistake. This demonstrates a lack of credibility as an “anti-war” candidate and is more of an indication that Hillary was only positioning herself politically to get support from Democrats for the primary.

Voters who have not been following this closely will find themselves second guessing their views about the war when they see the certainty of John McCain up on the debate stage (Where he will appear fatherly and comforting next to the shrillness of Hillary), against the political opportunist that defines Hillary Clinton.

Now let’s mention Bill. Everybody (including the Hillary campaign) thought that Bill would be her biggest asset, but he may indeed turn out to be her biggest deficit.

The only thing that will awaken the beaten down Republican voters right now is a return of the Clintons. They know this is not their year. With an unpopular war, a broken economy, and a slew of scandals on the back burners, they are just keeping their heads down right now.

But if they can get another shot at Bill and Hill, then they will rise like Lazarus sharpening their weapons for the battle to come. They know about the Clintons and they know they can beat them. As a matter of fact they have been preparing for this battle ever since Hillary was first elected to the Senate. Everybody in Washington knew that Hillary would run for President and the Republicans have been gathering dirt on Bill just for this eventuality. I have no idea if they have been successful, but given Bill’s reputation there is definitely the possibility. (Actually I have heard there is much more then just the possibility).

So the chances that Hillary can defeat the squeaky clean John McCain are virtually zero.

Now just for a moment imagine John “Bomb, bomb, Iran” McCain standing on that debate stage with Barack Obama. Just think of that image for a minute. Picture the youthful smiling face of Obama standing next to the grimacing John McCain.

Obama will bring in those anti-war votes by the millions with his early anti-war speech and his continued opposition. Obama will inspire those independents who are looking for a REAL change. And Obama will bring in the youth vote by the millions.

John McCain and the Republicans know that they have no hope against that image. Why do you think they have been talking about Hillary’s inevitability for over a year now? (Remember it was Karl Rove who first mentioned it.)

So if you are still on the fence about whether to support Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, remember who can win, and who cannot win.

Do you really want four more years of Republicans being in power?

I did not think so.