Though their parties have not officially nominated them yet, John McCain and Barack Obama are out on the campaign trail, flailing away at each other. This weekend's action featured McCain blasting Obama for eschewing federal funds after he signed a pledge to take them, and Obama blasting McCain for now urging stepped-up domestic oil drilling.
As predicted on this blog several days ago, McCain would rue the day he ceded the energy issue by throwing in with the environmentalists. That day has already come, and suddenly he is for President Bush's call for Congress to open off-shore oil drilling in the U.S. The polls show public support for increased oil drilling, due to outrageously rising gasoline prices, has grown from 42% to 57%--and rising. And nobody's seen their winter home heating bill yet--just wait.
While the liberals try to blame high oil prices on "speculators" and claim there isn't enough oil to be drilled to solve our problem, the public increasingly recognizes this ruse for what it is--the Chicken Little environmentalists trying to tell us the world is running out of resources, and that we're destroying the planet.
As evidence of the global warming hoax grows every day, the need to curb fossil fuels becomes less evident. Conservation might have been nice on $2 gasoline, but $4? Maybe for the trustfunders and Hollywood liberals, but for us working folks, no way. We need to return to supply-and-demand, free market economics, and bring the price down by putting more product on the market.
Obama has been wildly successful, far beyond what anybody thought was possible, in raising money in $5-$25 dollops on the internet. He has had 1.5 million separate contributors that way, and raised over $250 million. No wonder the $84 million allowed if he took federal funds looks like peanuts.
The pesky problem is his pledge to campaign under federal funds in the general election, and the perception that the Mr. Clean reform candidate--the very different apostle of hope and change--would sell out for the big bucks, just like any other garden-variety pol.
So Obama and McCain are swinging big roundhouse punches, probably missing their target, since John Q. Public really doesn't engage and pay attention to presidential politics until after Labor Day, when the vacations are over and the kids are back in school.
They're involved in what the boxing handicappers call "tune up matches." Call me when it turns serious.
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