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The nightmare ticket

by @ 20:49 on March 5, 2008. Filed under Politics - National.

We might have a slight problem with the NRE Spring Hill campaign, which finally yielded fruit last night in Ohio and Texas. It seems Hillary Clinton, fresh off those wins, is talking a unity ticket with Barack Hussein Obama. While a quick stroll through Memeorandum and my feed reader (those not showing up in the Memeorandum “instant reaction” links include Freedom Eden, Ace of Spades and bRight & Early, with obligatory links to Michelle Malkin and VodkaPundit) shows both the right end and the Obama half of the left end poo-poohing the prospect, the Clinton half of the left is openly cheering it. Even though it didn’t sound very serious as she only discussed the possibility of her at the top of that, it was enough for Fox News to get Michelle and Kirsten Powers together to chew this over (once again, thanks for being the blogosphere’s DVR, AP).

I’ll ignore that it probably isn’t serious on her part, and that Obama isn’t ready to discuss it yet, and cash in my E ticket. A Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton ticket would be a nightmare for the country. The modern Democratic Party is, at its core, a group of aggrieved constituencies united only by their hatred of uniquely-American aspects of America (i.e. conservatism and Republicans), and they represent the two largest of those constituencies. Given there are rather few in the voting pool that truly are non-partisan, and given there is a not-insignificant portion of that undecided that can be persuaded to particiapte in identity politics, a “unity ticket” would be more than enough to push them over the top.

Another consideration is preserving the Dems’ money advantage. With the Republican race for all intents and purposes over, John McCain can now conserve whatever money is left for the general election and the Democrat nominee. Meanwhile, we’ve got at least 6 more weeks of Democratic winter after Clinton saw her shadow in the bright spotlights of Ohio and Texas, and Pennsylvania has a couple of rather expensive media markets.

However, preventing that “unity ticket” is one of the goals of the NRE Spring Hill campaign. As Amanda Carpenter pointed out, Clinton has been throwing the kitchen sink at Obama. It’s just going to get uglier, and while politicians have an innate ability to forget personal attacks in the primary, there is an upper limit to that ability.

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