As I watched Karl Rove's political conjectures on Fox tV tonight, I remembered what a dynamic, powerful, calculated political machine he commanded in the 2000 and 2004 election campaigns of George W. Bush; Rove is a genius. Millions of volunteers on the ground, the "swift boat ads" and the fear mongering brought victory for the Republican Party. As I pondered the current political landscape, I conjured up a vision of how the Rove political machine could pull off yet another unforeseen victory.
What if the plan of attack is to manipulate the young people to vote for Barack Obama? After all, our youth are not the victims of economic losses; they are bored with the status quo and they haven't got a clue how Obama will bring about "change" but, none the less, our young people have crowned Obama rock star of 2008.
Assuming, for a moment, Obama becomes the Democratic Party's nominee, will the Republican political machine revive their "swift boat ads" and scare tactics? Will they unleash skeletons from Barack's past? Will they use Obama's Muslim heritage to scare voters? Will they promote racism to generate votes for McCain? The scenario of dirty politics is yet to be revealed but if the past is any indicator of the future, we could see a country divided subconsciously by innuendos of cultural differences.
Now, assuming Hillary Clinton is the nominee for the Democratic Party, what can the Republicans "pull out of their hat?' They've spent the last 20 years slicing and dicing her. No new juicy tidbits of scandalous information can be found. The demonizing will continue, of course. Republicans love to hate Clinton so the base may be polarized to vote against her but when you look at the choices offered from the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton is the candidate that can stand up to the scrutiny of the Rove machine.
The last eight years have been filled with lies, secrecy, economic woes and a war which should never have been waged. John McCain would just extend the Bush policies for another four years. If my theory is correct, Hillary Clinton has the best chance to beat John McCain. The time has arrived for the Bush era to be over and done with forever!
