i like sports analogies, especially for understanding the dynamics of a polical battle. don’t call it a race because it’s not — it’s much more akin to one of the combative sports. a poorly skilled boxer with size will try and deliver a knockout punch; which might work with another skilled fighter but will often leave them open for a skilful counter. this is what happened to hillary. mccain is working away at obama with jabs and crosses, cutting him and causing doubt. you don’t think the line about obama preferring to lose a war than an election didn’t open a cut above obabam’s eye?

wretchard, was it you who wrote about a bullying marine getting shredded by a smaller sailor/soldier who actually knew how to box? the same thing is going on now. i am reminded of a scene from a martin cruz smith book (“Stallion’s Gate”) where an older service man is involved with a younger fighter. the young man is no pushover and the older guy is not going to beat him by superior conditioning and skill. what the older guy notices is a scar on the younger man’s abdomen, a weakened spot. the older guy keys off on this spot and keeps at it and at it until the younger guy folds.

i will remind you people of one salient fact that is overlooked universally, perhaps out of politeness. mccain is a stone cold killer, in the literal sense of the word. he has taken life both from afar and in close quarter combat. he has absorbed the blows of a fanatical enemy and spit in their eyes. so you tell me, whose odds are better in the fall? put your money on the pansy, who knows maybe he *will* win. but i see blood on the mat already, and it’s not coming from mccain. for f’s sake obama couldn’t even win the dem nomination, so how in the hell does he win the general election?

and the above calculations don’t even begin to take into account the effect bush can have on the contest. every one hates him and that is liberating. leviathan is moving, ever faster, rising to destiny’s call, unseen until the surface is breached.

what are the chances hillary’s people have photos of the annointed one in the rack with some groupie? what are the chances they have people in his organization? what are the chances the msm is wrong again?

sorry for the scattershot approach (to this post) but there is just so much hand wringing about mccain, it pisses me off. if i am wrong in november you can mock me as you wish, but if i am right you can…well, let’s wait for the election