DEEP THROAT: They were frightened of Muskie and look who got destroyed. They wanted to run against McGovern. Look who they are running against. They bugged. They followed people. False press leaks, fake letters. They canceled democratic campaign rallies. They investigated democratic private lives. They planted spies, stole documents, and on and on. Don't tell me you think this is all the work of little Don Segretti.
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/Mark-Felt-Deep-Throat2jun05.htm

Whom does the RNC want to run against on November 4, 2008?

Let's look at the candidates:

Hillary Clinton:  Hillary is the recipient of  frequent media jokes.  They are mostly related to her being cold and her husband being faithless.  Thanks to a thorough investigation by Ken Starr, we know there are no skeletons in Hillary's closet.   If she sticks to her current stances, the peace supporters will be unhappy.  If she switches positions the Republicans will be unhappy.  Hillary has the endorsement of the National Organization of Women.  Despite the jokes, the majority of Americans are women.  Women who are not wrapped up in the peace movement will put aside politics to elect one of their own President.  She is one of the top contenders for the McGovern factor.

Joseph Biden:  Can  anyone get a handle on where this guy stands?  He speaks in generalities.  However, his voting record shows that like Obama, Clinton, and Dodd, he is a supporter of the continued occupation of Iraq.    The peace supporters won't back him.  He ran for President before and the worst scandal that can be found against him from his first campaign involves his standing in his law school graduation class.  He had previously said he graduted at the top of his class.  Now, he jokingly says that he graduated at the bottom of his class.  Do the American people really care about intelligence when it comes to electing Presidents?

Chris Dodd:  Very few people know much of anything about Chris Dodd.  The peace supporters will hold his voting record against him.  It is not as conservative as those of Clinton, Obama, or Biden.  It is not as anti-environmetal as that of Edwards and Obama.  Unless he has a lot of skeletons in his closet, he is not the top choice for the McGovern candidate.

John Edwards:  He is the candidate who is expected to win on looks alone.  He gets this through $250 make-up jobs and $400 haircuts.  Most Americans feel they would look hot with $250 in make-up and $400 haircuts.  Viewers of the more recent Manchurian Candidate movie will note a striking physical resemblance between Edwards and the Manchurian Candidate. Edwards co-authored the war resolution, making him more culpable than candidates who simply voted for it.  He actually became a spokesman for the war.  His speeches in support of war with Iraq and similar speeches in support of a strike on Iran are being read by Internet users all over the country.  He pushed  USA-PATRIOT and the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository through Congress.   Nevada and California are among the first primaries  His 37% League of Conservation Voters rating the year before he decided not to run for re-election will not sit well with environmentalists.  His lifetime environmental rating is also much lower than those of the other candidates.  All this makes him one of the two most likely prospects for the McGovern factor.

Mike Gavel:  Mike Gavel may have saved himself from the McGovern factor when, during the first debate, he named candidates he felt would be good nominees.  That is a faux pax that will cause voters to ignore him on the way to the nomination.  It is indicative of an issues candidate who doesn't care about the job.  He seems relatively honest.  Since most Americans opposed a tax system based solely on sales taxes, his tax plan is a no go with voters.  He is not likely to be a contender for the nomination.

Dennis Kucinich: Dennis Kucinich has certainly acquired the reputation for being the most courageous of the candidates.  He takes a lot of chances.  He takes positions with which the people, but not big corporations, agree.  He introduces legislation other candidates are afraid to touch. They don't want to offend their coporate backers.  He has no such fear.  Kucinich's refusal to take corporation donations and his support for people over corporations means that he has to run on a shoe string budget, based on donations from average citizens who donate what little they can.  McGovern candidates usually receive a lot of media since the media megacorporations represent Republican interests.  The media plays down all of Kucinich's accomplishments in an attempt to hide them.  Because of the popular stands he has taken, they need to give him some coverage but often hide it on a back page.  Kucinich's life is an open book.  There is nothing they could bring up that could harm in in the general election.  Since his positions are actually mainstream, the publicity of the nomination could only help to guarantee him a general election victory.  He  is completely unsuitable for the McGovern factor.  If he were nominated, he would be the next President.

Barack Obama:  In his short political career, Obama has collected more baggage than most politicians do in a lifetime.  He's made a lot of enemies, too.  His state senate victory was obtained through disqualifying his four Democratic opponents.  His Democratic and Republican opponents in the U.S. Senate race dropped out after his campaign publicized scandals in their confidential divorce files.  He has  a reputation for fabricating his personal history.  He or a ghost writer wrote a book which was found to contain obvious false statemenets about his childhood.  His voting record has shown a contempt for the poor and needy.  He has a stong pro-war voting record but pretends to be anti-war. Then there are the meetings with campaign people in his Congressional office, a real no-no.   His life is like a house of cards that is about to collapse.  He is the perfect fit for the McGovern factor.  The press loves him, now.  After the nomination, things about his fabrications will start making the national TV news.  Then the explanations and statements will play a bigger role until they are all America talks about. There will be questions about whether he should step down.  A nomination win for Obama would spell catastrophy for the Democratic Party.    The Republicans Party is ready and eager for his candidacy.  The only thing that could change things is if informed Democrats got the party to go another direction.  Still, remember there are at least two to three other possible McGovern candidates to that could help guarantee a Republican victory if Obama doesn't make it through the primary season. 

Bill Richardson: Bill Richardson was on the board of directors of Peregrine Systems. Inc., when it went under.  Richardson laid off thousands of employees while his corporation went bankrupt and shareholders lost millions of dollars.  This scandal was part of the reason for the demise of Arthur Anderson. Richardson's brother-in-law, the CEO and President, pled guilty to three felony counts of defrauding shareholders and corporation out of millions of dollars.  While Richardson plays up his Latino heritage, he won't get the support of Latinos when they notice that he has spoken for the revocation of citizenship of chilren of undocumented workers.  These are major problem that make him one of the three top prospects for the McGovern factor.

The Republicans have four  Democratic possiblities for the McGovern factor: Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton.  Obama would be the Republican's best case scenario as his problems with honesty and seeming political corruption appear to be extensive and hard for informed observers to overlook.  Will 2008 be the return of the McGovern factor? Watch the Republican media hype, the primaries and see.

Copyright © 2007 by Gary F.