Preemptive Revisionism
Once upon a time, PoliPundit was an interesting multi-person blog focused on conservative issues. After immigration became a major issue, it became increasingly a single-issue blog and has, to put it nicely, gone completely insane.
They now have an entry up predicting what all eight years of a potential McCain Presidency might look like. Here's a quote:
"PoliPundit" - February 11th, 2008 What would a John McCain presidency look like? We need only look at the examples of Bill Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger - two chief executives who resemble McCain in many ways.
Naturally, no supporting evidence is given. Instead, he accepts his own premise without question, and proceeds to map out, in abstract terms, the twists and turns of this imagined administration:
"PoliPundit" - February 11th, 2008 Having won the election from the center, Clinton and Schwarzenegger immediately tried to consolidate their power by implementing policies supported by their parties’ ideological core. McCain will probably try something similar. But McCain, like Clinton and Schwarzenegger, will pay a heavy political price for this. Instead of winning over ideologues, he will alienate the center. Like Clinton and Schwarzenegger, he will inevitably see his political standings rapidly fall.
It has been evident for several months now that the people over at PoliPundit have gone a little crazy, but this takes the cake. The author promises to do a similar write up of Hillary Clinton, which gives away the whole goofy strategy; he wants to put them side-by-side in a feeble attempt to substantiate the idea that McCain and Clinton would govern similarly.
It's an untenable case to make, but I'd still hope that people would try to make it without dragging crystal balls into the equation. It's not without reason that the fictional McCain Presidency described is devoid of policy specifics, as any frank comparison of McCain and Clinton's policies forces any thinking person into acknowledging the chasm between them.
» February 11th, 2008
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