Hillary Clinton Comeback Good News For John McCain

Filed Under Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Indiana primary, John McCain

Hillary Clinton wins in upcoming primaries would be good news for John McCain, opines the Weekly Standard.

Now Democrats are boosting McCain’s chances of winning the presidency by prolonging the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. “They are eating their own,” says Dick Morris, the onetime adviser to the Clintons. The result, for the moment anyway, is that McCain is inching ahead in polls matching him against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

So long as Clinton stays in the race, the bitter divide among Democrats will widen–to McCain’s advantage. And since Clinton still has a chance of winning the nomination, she’s bound to continue her campaign at least through the Pennsylvania primary on April 22 and the Indiana and North Carolina primaries on May 6–and probably until the verdict of Democratic super-delegates becomes clear sometime this summer.

No matter who ultimately wins the nomination, the prospects for electing a Democratic president this fall will have declined. And through no machinations of his own, McCain’s chances of winning will have improved. There’s a name for that happenstance: luck.

Baylor University’s The Lariat Online expounds on John McCain’s luck:

Consistently combining good fortune with gritty resolve, John McCain proves the saying that an individual can bring good fortune upon himself.

While no one can suggest that spending five and a half years in the Hanoi Hilton prison camp is in anyway fortunate, the fact that he survived it in such a resilient fashion is nothing but a blessing.

In more recent events, John McCain built upon his patriotism and work ethic but has also demonstrated a certain amount of luck in winning the Republican nomination. Conservatives inadvertently assisted the McCain campaign by splitting their support among his rivals, leaving the door open for McCain to seize the nomination.

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