My wife observed the other day that John McCain may be the luckiest politician in the world, and I agree. Last summer he was out of cash and forced to lay off staffers, he seemed to have no prospects, and all that was left was a formal announcement that he was quitting the presidential race. But plucky John hung on, still thinking he had a shot at beating the GOP glamor boys, Rudy and Romney, and winning the nomination.
Then look what happened: Rudy’s bad judgment in passing up the early primaries did him in, and all of Romney’s cash couldn’t convince Republican conservatives that he was one of them. The stars dropped out of sight and who was left? Ageless John McCain, plugging along and winning the primnaries that really mattered, finally swatting his last rival, Huckabee, aside as if he were just a bothersome gnat.
Perhaps you can credit grit and experience, rather than luck, for John’s winning of the Republican race. But wait. How do you account for the fact that presumptive Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton is now locked in a desperate struggle with virtual unknown Barack Obama, both of whom are flubbing like mad to the benefit of McCain in a year when it seemed clear that the Republicans were destined to lose. The early polls had so indicated, but now look at them: McCain is running neck-and-neck with each Demo candidate, and if they continue to make donkeys out of themselves old John will doubtless take the lead.
So luck it is. There’s just no other way to explain it. Plucky John is now Lucky John and may become our next president. The question is, will the people of the USA be lucky to have him in the oval office or is all this some kind of mischievous prank that Fate is playing upon us.
Stay tuned…
Tags: Barack Obama, election, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mit Romney, presidential race
