The Occasional Observer

We're still a year and a half away from the '08 Presidential election, and already Time magazine is starting to whine that the Republicans lead the polls in head-to-head matchups. They throw reason after reason at you as to why this shouldn't be the case, but yet it is.

I will lay good money on the line that the following scenario will play out. If Rudy wins primary, MSM will do their best to turn him from 9/11 hero into "evil conservative." They will proclaim that his fiscal and law enforcement policies were overly suppressive of minorities and the underpriveleged. If McCain wins, he will be labelled as another Bush neo-con, who supported the Iraq war from day 1 and still supports our presence there. However, should either one of them win the general election, the MSM will completely change their tune to suggest that this was more of a win for Dems and Indies than Repubs. They'll suddenly play up Rudy's liberal social policies and McCain's "maverick" status, to suggest their election can only be viewed as a rejection of conservative policies..

Let the games begin..