How Obama Lost The Election

An excerpt from Spengler in the Asia Times:

Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why he rejected the obvious road to victory, that is, choosing Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential nominee. However reluctantly, Clinton would have had to accept. McCain's choice of vice presidential candidate made obvious after the fact what the party professionals felt in their fingertips at the stadium extravaganza yesterday: rejecting Clinton in favor of the colorless, unpopular, tangle-tongued Washington perennial Joe Biden was a statement of weakness. McCain's selection was a statement of strength. America's voters will forgive many things in a politician, including sexual misconduct, but they will not forgive weakness.

That is why McCain will win in November, and by a landslide, barring some unforeseen event. Obama is the most talented and persuasive politician of his generation, the intellectual superior of all his competitors, but a fatally insecure personality. American voters are not intellectual, but they are shrewd, like animals. They can smell insecurity, and the convention stank of it. Obama's prospective defeat is entirely of its own making.

Comments

[Mitch]

I hate having to agree with this, but I think it's totally correct. When I heard he'd picked Biden I thought it was a horrible move, and hearing about Palin, who, like almost everyone else, I knew nothing about, I thought was almost a stroke of genius. Almost, that is; I think there would have been a bit more credibility with either Elizabeth Dole or Condoleeza Rice.