A Little Too Late

More speculation on the news today that Hillary Clinton might go on the campaign trail to be Obama's attack dog against Sarah Palin. Of course, they don't consider that it's too late for something like that, if there ever was a time that it really would have mattered.

The fact is that, as I have said before, McCain is not playing identity politics by picking Palin, he's playing smart politics, going after Conservative voters, like myself. It has been my feeling from the day that McCain announced that he had selected Palin as his running mate that he was only going to get a slight bump from the hardcore democrat supporters of Hillary, so, even if she were able to go out there and take all of them away, it would be minimal. Obviously someone like Hillary would never be able to convince voters like myself to vote for Obama, but she might not even have all that much luck with those few of her former supporters who have switched over. I say that simply because it's been so long. I know that two weeks doesn't seem like such a long time, but with a heated election like this one, two weeks can be an eternity. If someone has indeed gone over tho the McCain camp, they have spent the last two weeks immersing themselves in the McCain campaign, getting comfortable with the idea of voting for, and supporting the McCain/Palin ticket, and opposing Obama. Getting them to turn back could end up being an insurmountable task, even for Hillary. All of that, though, like I said, is probably not an issue for the small number of people that we're really talking about here.

The big thing though, that the media seems to be missing, in their own self interest, is that there is nothing that Hillary said that can be taken as an indication that she is planning to be an attack dog against Palin. Everything that she has said has been about getting the focus back onto the issues, because there are serious differences between McCain and Obama, and that the Obama campaign should get it's focus off of Palin and back onto McCain. I heard her say that, and my first thought was along the lines of, wow, she's right, and she smarter than Obama's whole campaign staff.

It's about time someone with a loud voice came forward and said, this campaign needs to be about the issues. I want it to be about the issues, because I think McCain's stances on the issues are better than Obama's, and I am ready, willing, and able to argue the issues, but nobody seems to want to. I am also happy to see that there is at least one democrat who is willing to talk issues. If they hold these positions, they should be willing to discuss them, and defend them as needed.

Who would have thought that I would have been the one to say, Hillary was right. Man, things really don't make sense in this election.