Cowboy Confessional

My Republican and conservative friends are now actively promoting Bob Barr, which is odd because yesterday they maintained Barr was Satan’s older brother.

Today McCain selected Sarah Palin as his running mate. A brief investigation into Palin indicates that she is what Republican’s refer to as a “solid conservative”, something cannot say about McCain. This distain for McCain within his own party has been somewhat problematic as 8% of polled Republican’s threatened to wait until 2012 to vote again.

The only man who has it worse if Obama, for whom 12% of Democrats considered equal inaction.

Palin does not by herself create a threat to the bicorporal Obama/Biden. There are plenty of policy difference whereby party loyalists and inclined independents would swim toward one candidate or the other regardless of the Palin factor. She may not even shift many of the authentically undecided’s or even a single Hillary harlot.

But she does keep that disgruntled 8% from defecting the McCain camp while Joe Biden does nothing to secure disaffected Democrats.

The missing monkey in the barrel are the Blue Democrats — blue collar and blue dog. They were not up on Obama and never will be. They may not switch to McCain, instead opting to wait four years for a better option. But the net effect is that Obama loses 12% of his party base by picking Biden and McCain earns back his 8%. Given that the aggregate polls currently call a dead-even race, that 8% makes it a win for McCain.

So where does Bob Barr come in? My Republican friends are indeed promoting Barr now … to their blue Democrat friends. As a safety measure they want Democrats to have an option and not wander back to the party plantation. Small government Libertarian sensibilities are attractive to Blue Dogs who can overlook the Libs social liberalism.

So you Elephants.. start emailing your disaffected Democrat friends and family and suggest they swing to Barr/Root this election cycle.

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