Obama Can’t Win in November By Bob Lonsberry
The Bear on May 18 2008 at 8:24 am | Filed under: Election 08’
Obama can’t win.
It’s not that complex, really. He just can’t win.
A candidate who can’t win over his own party certainly can’t win over the country.
The traits and flaws which make him an unacceptable candidate to roughly a third of Democrats will make him an unacceptable candidate to a majority of Americans.
And that’s how you lose elections.
This isn’t meant to bash him, it’s just meant to be honest and lay the cards on the table. The nagging question from the Clinton camp — Why can’t he close the deal? — is legitimate and haunting, and it gets to the point. Barack Obama has fared poorly in big, electorally rich states in his quest for the Democratic nomination. The reasons for that are only going to be exacerbated when he faces independents and Republicans.
And here are those reasons.
Barack Obama is a black nationalist with a condescending attitude toward people who are different from him and, just for good measure, he has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate. His viewpoints on taxation are confiscatory, his attitudes toward entitlement are socialist, his thoughts on the war are defeatist.
And he doesn’t seem to like white people who live in small towns, own guns or go to church.
And those attitudes don’t win many friends across the electorate.
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