Will It Be McCain This November?

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The conventional wisdom of just a few months ago — that the Republicans were finished because of concerns about the Iraq War and out of control government spending and that Election 2008 was one for the Democrats to lose — might be changing as the Democrats’ intra-party battles about Michigan, Florida, and superdelegates threaten to overshadow their party’s candidates messages.

Could the Democrats hand a victory to the Republicans in November 2008?

To wit:

The Washington Post’s Michael D. Shear reports that McCain is sitting in the “campaign’s catbird” seat.

As his rivals clash over who is qualified to answer a 3 a.m. phone call in the White House, McCain will meet with foreign leaders in Europe and the Middle East. While Obama and Clinton argue about do-over primaries in Florida and Michigan, McCain will be free to roam the country, giving speeches, holding town-hall meetings and raking up cash.

The strategy is being launched as some in the Republican Party worry that McCain will be forgotten amid the news media’s intense focus on the Democratic presidential race. “Understandably,” McCain quipped to reporters on his plane last week. “I’ll be watching, too.”

The evolving plan also calls for the Republican National Committee to use the time to seed the conservative echo chamber — blogs, talk radio and independent groups — with red-meat rhetoric and ammunition about the lack of Democratic qualifications.

“You’d rather be the definer than the defined,” said Jill Hazelbaker, McCain’s communications director.

The Guardian’s Andrew Rawnsley goes even further in saying that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could “gift” the White House prize to John McCain this November.

If the Democrats fail to take the White House this year, it will not be for the usual reason that the party chose a rubbish candidate for President. It will be because they had the rotten luck to have one too many formidable candidates. This is the horrible irony of a dragged-out, no-holds-barred, slime-slinging fight to the last delegate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The best news for John McCain from the most recent primaries is not that they formally anointed him as the Republican standard bearer. The best news for the senator from Arizona is that the Democratic party still can’t decide who he will face in November.

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