Not long ago, I heard those two good old boys at Red State Update (www.redstateupdate.com) say that this current Presidential election was nothing more than an up-or-down referendum on Barack Obama. The Republicans were running an empty “R” space for the “no-to-Obama” vote. At the time I just laughed and laughed, which is precisely what those good old boys had intended.

Since then, I have been watching and I am becoming convinced of the truth that underlies their jokes on that topic. The news coverage of Obama’s campaign is beyond ridiculous. Who doesn’t know that? In fact, I rather enjoyed finding this “poll” that suggests that the press coverage of Obama is so far over the top that it is setting lots of folks off. How bad is it when Democrats, being polled by their liberal colleagues, reply that they want less Obama and more McCain?

(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_el_pr/poll_obama_overexposure)

OK, so the media coverage is adding new extremes to the term “biased.” OK, so the entire English-speaking world is being asked to come out and swoon over this new phenomenon (like the screaming girls that used to attend 1950's Frank Sinatra concerts?) OK, so the TV cameras keep finding people who can articulate that they love this man because he is the first black Presidential candidate to get the nomination from one of the major political parties, while simultaneously denying that race has anything to do with it.

All that said, I am not afraid of that man. In recent years, no one has successfully run for the office of the President of the United States with the term “liberal” attached to him. Nope, there has not been one in the past fifty years. Jimmy Carter is an incredible far-left liberal whacko who, to this day, never shrinks from finding new ways to embarrass his country every few years. But who knew it back when it was time for voting? He was supposed to be an incredibly brainy Southern moderate who was going to balance the budget because he was just so much smarter than the rest of us. The voters thought we needed someone smart to help us balance the Federal budget and turn the tide on the excessive government spending. We didn’t get it. And Bill Clinton never admitted to any liberalism while he was running for office. No one was quite sure what he believed in those days, but he never got a majority of the vote anyway. Clinton won because Perot split the vote on the right. As long as there is no serious third party candidate coming up to fill the hunger on the right for a strong conservative leader, the results of the upcoming election are fairly predictable.

The previous Democrat candidates who said they were liberals and proud of it, let’s see, I can name a few; there was McGovern and there was Dukakis and there was Kerry. Last time I checked, they got minced into hash. (Here’s a fun way to prove that point. Ask your friends this question; “True or False? Reagan ran unopposed for his second term as President.” They KNOW that SOMEBODY must have run against him … but, um, er, who could it have been? It’s always good for a hearty laugh.)