It seems quite fatuous to try to compare the messianic fervor of Obama’s supporters with anyone’s support of John McCain. Consider that admiration for McCain is based on a real record of heroism as a POW and a real record of decades in Congress.
I don’t support McCain or anyone remaining in either party, but at least those who admire him can point to a real record.
Obama has run as all things to all liberals. Those who compare him to JKF strike me as particularly guilty of distorting President Kennedy’s legacy, or of never re-reading his speeches, since the most prominent of them are his own family. He strikes me as the Jayson Blair of politics, bright and well-spoken but with little to recommend it for President of the U.S.
As for Hillary Clinton, the main reason anybody supports her is that she’s the first woman who’s come this close.
Conservatives at this moment are the least likely to hold anybody in the kind of awe that Obama supporters seem to have for him. They’ve learned that having control of the White House and Congress is no guarantee that things will go the way you wish they would. They will be the most surprised if McCain wins and then is actually a good, effective president.
