Posted by
Mike on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:27:12 AM
Here’s my dream scenario…
John McCain selects Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his VP running mate. Her presence on the ticket firms up his credibility on oil drilling and his overall commitment to achieve energy independence. She draws a lot of votes from former Hillary Clinton supporters who want to see the first woman VP and are not happy that Obama has selected a white guy with foreign policy credentials to be his VP running mate. Palin’s relative youth and conservative views win back many of the conservatives who had left the GOP reservation during the primaries.
In the coming months leading up to the election, Iraq continues to stabilize from the “surge” and Obama looks more and more foolish trying to justify his opposition to the war and his timetable for retreat. Gas prices stay high and a huge majority of people want to do whatever it takes to reduce our dependency on foreign oil. Also, people finally realize the huge tax increases that Obama will need to ask for to fund his new entitlement programs. When push comes to shove, many who thought it would be cool to have the first bi-racial President, finally realize that a freshman Senator with radical liberal views and questionable associations with a bigoted, anti-American pastor, an unrepentant terrorist and convicted racketeer is too big a risk to vote for.
The McCain/Palin ticket wins handily enough, so there is no outcry for recounts or whining about disenfranchised voters. McCain becomes the oldest first term President and Palin the first woman VP. Also, Congress, with their 9% approval rating, gets unexpectedly bush-whacked (get the pun?) and the Senate comes back to Republican control and the Democrats lessen their majority in the House.
During the first term McCain ends the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and their democratic governments and security forces become self-sufficient. No terrorist attacks on U.S. soil are successful. Drilling gets started in the coastal waters and in ANWAR and 25 new nuclear power plants come on-line, resulting in the average price of gasoline coming down to $1.78 per gallon. Al Gore is committed to an insane asylum after his man-made global warming catastrophe is officially debunked and his Nobel Peace Prize is revoked. The big income tax cuts McCain proposes get through Congress and the stock market soars with the Dow Jones breaking the 20,000 mark. McCain also replaces two Supreme Court Justices whose confirmations win rave reviews from conservatives.
With huge successes under his belt, McCain decides to go out on top and not run for a second term. VP Palin wins the Republican nomination with no significant opposition and the Democrats resurrect Senator Clinton to oppose her. Palin and her VP running mate, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindall, defeat Hillary and Chelsea in a landslide. Now the Republicans have added other firsts, the first woman President and the first bi-racial VP.
Palin ends her second term successfully, having appointed another four Supremes, protected the country against terrorism and oversaw an ever-growing economy.
Following the Palin presidency, Jindall becomes the first bi-racial President and the Republicans get another eight years in the Executive Office.
For over a quarter century following Bill Clinton, the Republicans control the Presidency.
As for the others…Hillary Clinton lost her Senate seat and the Clintons traveled around the world for years unsuccessfully trying to fix their legacies. After his failed presidential bid, Barack Obama continued to win reelection to his Senate seat with an exciting message of “hope and change”. He eventually stopped reminding people that he gave a speech in 2002 opposing military action in Iraq (now a strategic ally). Al Gore spends his typical day drawing “hockey stick” diagrams in a notebook and mumbling about how the debate is over…
If only dreams would come true!