Home stretch. Barack Obama may be the luckiest candidate in the history of elections. Just as his no-drama, low key style was causing Drama King John McCain to attack and fall even in the polls, came the national economic drama that left Obama's steadiness contrast with McCain's hopping uselessly about like Topsy. In consequence, Colin Powell, the other white black man, endorsed Obama unequivocally. That meant that finger pointing and name calling spewed from an imploding McCain campaign. That led to one commentator coming out and saying, at long last, that the Republican candidate was semi-senile. We've all known that since the Afghanistan border with Iraq comment resonated nationwide. Look, I'm older than McCain. And I would no more run a necessarily punishing campaign for national office than I would drink Drano.
McCain wanted to be President so very, very, very badly that he torpedoed his party. Mitt Romney would have been better. Also lots of Republican governors who were subsumed by the McCain head start. That probably accounts for part of the party sniping. The result is that Obama has realigned the red state blue state split, so carefully promoted by Carl Rove, into a fuzzy purple, here and there.Barack said he admired Reagan for his strategy. Well, then, he has a pretty spiffy strategy record his own self. I love it. The Democrats love it. And the Republicans? They brought it on themselves.