Day: January 30, 2008

Question:
What has two thumbs and doesn’t give a crap?

Answer:John McCain. Glad to meet you.

Edwards is reportedly dropping out of the race. That leaves me wondering who the hëll I’m going to vote for in the Democratic primary. I feel as if Clinton has too much baggage and Obama is too inexperienced, particularly if it means going up against an old hand like McCain.

Actually, a McCain/Obama race would be eerily similar to the final season of “West Wing,” which depicted a seasoned Republican with some centrist and even liberal views (Alan Alda’s Arnie Vinnick) going up against a younger, less experienced but naively idealistic Congressman who was distinctly a non-WASP (Jimmy Smits’ Matt Santos). In that showdown, Santos won…except that wasn’t the original scenario. Originally, and more realistically, Vinnick was going to win. But the death of Leo McGarry (paralleling the real life passing of actor John Spencer) prompted the producers to change the intended outcome because the felt it would be just too much tragedy and loss to dump on both Santos and his campaign manager, Josh (Bradley Whitford).

Obama, of course, won’t have that scenario available to him. Which means that if is Obama/McCain, and all things remain equal, the West Wing scenario dictates that McCain will win.

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