One-Third

One-third of Hillary Clinton supporters have consistently indicated to pollsters and news reporters that if their candidate is not the nominee of the Democratic Party, they will support John McCain.

This is excellent news, given that it has become all but certain that Hillary will NOT win her Party's nomination.

The numbers simply do not support a Hillary Clinton win, especially after Tuesday's dreadful results. She needed to win big in Indiana but almost lost. She needed to be competitive in North Carolina but lost by double-digits. The momentum is now on Obama's side, and everyone in the Party knows it, particularly those all-important 'super-delegates,' who are abandoning Hillary like rodents jumping off of a sinking ship.

Barring some unforeseen circumstance such as another Obama gaffe in which he claims that older white women do not support him because they secretly fear he will rape them, or some other such nonsense, the man who insulted Pennsylvanians will in all likelihood be the Democratic nominee.

The prospects of a John McCain-Barack Obama matchup should be a delightful prospect to all of those who loathe the Obama ideology. Although McCain has raised the ire of conservatives on many occasions, when compared to Obama's abject Socialism and outright hatred of America the Arizona Senator will look like a Burke traditionalist in comparison.

Obama's reluctance to spell out the 'change' he proposes can be attributed to his extremist, Leftist viewpoint. Extremists of the Left typically do not fully describe their views or proposals for the fear that it will alienate the majority of the population. Thus, vague generalities are the order of the day.

But when one looks closely at Obama's words over a period of time, it is clear that he is well outside the political mainstream. Americans in the heartland will never go for his prescriptions for our so-called 'ills' once they are spelled out for them, as McCain will most surely do.

For example, Obama claims the oil companies are guilty of 'price gouging.' This statement is in itself ample evidence that the man has no inkling of what he's talking about. Not only that, but his response to the supposed price gouging is to 'take their profits' and invest them in alternative energy sources.

My friends, when government raids the profits of private enterprise, we are no longer living in a free society but an oppressive one, closely akin to that of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Further, the oil companies are already investing in alternative energy sources. BP, for example, is one of the world's top investors in solar energy. This is not to mention that the top American automakers are rolling out products that use electricity, fuel cell technology, as well as bio-fuels. If the automakers believed that there would be no way to power these vehicles, then they would not produce them.

In short, the free market and private enterprise is taking care of the problem.

Obama has also said each of the following: we should withdraw from Iraq immediately and invade Pakistan to 'get bin Laden and al Qaeda' (Pakistan is a major nuclear power); handguns should be banned, period; he would mandate that the automakers manufacture only those vehicles that adhere to the most restrictive gas mileage and emission standards (removing from the consumer the right to choose what they drive); he would have absolutely no limits on abortion, given that he voted against providing medical care for babies that survive botched abortion attempts; he has stated he is against the Bush tax cuts and is for letting them expire in 2010, meaning he supports the largest single tax increase in American history; he has proposed various and sundry new government programs that will necessitate a 300 BILLION tax increase in order to pay for them; he believes that the federal government should play a greater role in local education, in spite of the fact that he opposes 'no child left behind;' he has stated he opposes moves to punish 'sanctuary cities' that break the law in order to give haven to illegal aliens; and he opposes clamping down on illegal aliens.

Because of these extremist views, Obama has failed to win the majority of the white vote AND the Hispanic vote in the primaries. The only white votes he has won are what we can refer to as the 'egg-headed liberal elites of academia.' This, in fact, is the reason he won big in North Carolina over Hillary. The state's Democrats are overwhelmingly African-American, and the white Democrats tend to be connected to academia where they flourish in such liberal bastions as Duke and the University of North Carolina.

As one of Hillary's advisers stated Wednesday morning on a TV morning show, 'no Presidential candidate can win the White House in November by getting only the African-American vote and the votes of the white egg-heads.'

The only chance Hillary has, therefore, is to convince a majority of the super-delegates that Obama has no chance in November. But it is doubtful she will succeed since the Democrats this year are star-struck by a young upstart who has no experience.