How Bad is Bad?
Oct. 3rd, 2008 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daveonOne thing I have been pondering in my sometimes overly twisted head is what is the game plan here for McCain and, by extension, the Republican Party.
In the UK in 1992, the Conservative Party were _meant_ to lose the election, the events of the 16th September 1992 would probably have happened a few months earlier, forcing Neil Kinnock to probably lose a No Confidence Vote and see his Chancellor John Smith die of a massive MI at the dispatch box explaining it... I exaggerate for effect.
On the other hand, in the years following Black Wednesday Major and Clarke actually did a lot of things right economically and that helped.
However, looking at the situation in the US I'm now struck that this is a poisoned challis for any party. Whoever wins has a record deficit, financial markets in turmoil, a credit crunch biting (see the news about California today), unemployment rising etc... Given the very real problems in the US fundamentals at the moment (Healthcare (lack thereof), Infrastructure (lack and need for repair thereof), economy (foreclosures, falling property prices, over reliance on credit etc...) the next government could well be screwed.
Is the McCain campaign, therefore, a Patsy?
Discuss.
In the UK in 1992, the Conservative Party were _meant_ to lose the election, the events of the 16th September 1992 would probably have happened a few months earlier, forcing Neil Kinnock to probably lose a No Confidence Vote and see his Chancellor John Smith die of a massive MI at the dispatch box explaining it... I exaggerate for effect.
On the other hand, in the years following Black Wednesday Major and Clarke actually did a lot of things right economically and that helped.
However, looking at the situation in the US I'm now struck that this is a poisoned challis for any party. Whoever wins has a record deficit, financial markets in turmoil, a credit crunch biting (see the news about California today), unemployment rising etc... Given the very real problems in the US fundamentals at the moment (Healthcare (lack thereof), Infrastructure (lack and need for repair thereof), economy (foreclosures, falling property prices, over reliance on credit etc...) the next government could well be screwed.
Is the McCain campaign, therefore, a Patsy?
Discuss.
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