It's a pleasure to be right and I couldn't be happier than I am today.  Why am I so happy?  First, the Democratic Party is on course to total disunity in November with nearly half of Clinton supporters resisting the calls of Hillary Clinton and their party's delegates to rally behind Barack Obama.  My second pleasure is watching the predictable slow fall of Obama's good-guy image.

Everything is looking up, except Obama's poll numbers.  As it turns out, his spectacularly arrogant, if not elitist, tour of Europe backfired on him leaving his six point lead over John McCain stagnant until this week when it dropped three more points.  Moreover, McCain is performing better than ever in polls in some key swing states, states which the pundits had already delivered to Obama, their collective choice for president.

I love it.  The media's endorsement of Obama could either be his biggest asset or his most damaging liability.  The better candidates were marginalized last year during the build up to the Iowa caucuses with a special focus on Obama's charisma (which I still don't see) and Clinton's powerhouse brand recognition.  The two best candidates, Joe Biden and John Edwards, were offered much more demeaning coverage by the big three election news organizations, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.

Obama's greatest assets, possibly in addition to the seamlessly coordinated public relations campaign involving the big news networks and his campaign, are his youthful appeal, the misleading depiction of him as a "Washington outsider" and consensus-builder, and the all time low of President Bush's approval rating.  But what is overlooked is the all time low of public approval for the Congress, led by Democrats.  That means it may be a liability to be a Democrat as much as it is to be a Bush Republican.

The liabilities that plague Obama's campaign (which may include the now transparent partnership between his campaign and the media that the public will come to disdain) include his new image as a typical two-faced politician who has proven himself to be as equal a political opportunist as Bill Clinton, the man whose politics he and his supporters berated as part of the problem in Washington.  In addition, Obama will have to suffer the damage done by his relationships with Wright, Rezko, and Bill Ayers and even the haunting criticisms of his Democratic primary opponents.  Already, McCain is leveraging those criticisms, primarily the sentiments that Obama is all talk and no action or experience.  In other words, all hope and no change.

Finally, enter the biggest liability for Obama.  The use of the race card.  Beginning with his now infamous race speech, Obama has ironically become the victim of his own cautions, injecting race into the debate whenever it served to further his agenda as a victim.  More recently he expressed that the fact that he doesn't look like any of the presidents on our paper currency means it will be harder for him to win.  Well, so much for keeping race out of this.  Race will be an enormous problem for Obama, not simply because of his own statements, but because of the outrageous claims delivered by his wife, Michelle Obama, and the heroes and mentors of his past, including Jeremiah Wright.

More interesting than any of that are Obama's flip-flops.  Not the ones he wears on vacation to Hawaii, but the ones he dishes at a moment's notice to the press and American public in order to drive his misleading campaign across the country.  Forget his remarkable flipping and flopping on Iraq and public funding for his campaign, his latest and greatest achievement is his new position regarding the status of Florida's and Michigan's delegates at the upcoming convention.  Now, it seems, Obama believes every vote should count.  What happened to his position back in March?  It's nothing more than a distant memory.

You may recall that in March, in the heat of the contest between Obama and Clinton, Obama went to great lengths to obstruct the Democratic process and ignore the votes of his party constituents in the two key states.  Of course, Clinton's motives at the time to count all the votes in Florida and Michigan were intended to suit her needs.  But Obama took the high road.  He and his hired attorneys argued that Florida and Michigan broke the rules and therefore they shouldn't be allowed to play.  Admirable, indeed.  The DNC decided to count each of the two states' delegates as only half votes.  That was the decision.  Obama celebrated and Clinton conceded.

Yet this week, Obama called for the delegates of Florida and Michigan to be counted in full.  He even sent a letter to the DNC, stating:

"I believe party unity calls for the delegates from Florida and Michigan to be able to participate fully alongside the delegates from the other states and territories."

What happened?  Just what Clinton pundits and supporters said would happen, that is, Obama would eventually need those two states to win the election.  Now his poll numbers are declining and he needs every vote he can get.  Ironic.  But as I've said from day one, Obama is a political animal, an opportunist unlike anything we have seen in politics.  He has the support of millions of devoted, some may say brainwashed, advocates lining streets, chanting at rallies, and bringing everyone they knew to the caucuses, including minors who won't even be able to vote in the general election (but at least they served their roles as political pawns for the revolution).

Irony is the best word to describe Obama and his campaign.  Complete irony to the point that I don't know how he still has support.  His campaign has been the biggest farce and disgrace since the campaign of George W. Bush and Karl Rove in 2004.  I'm disgusted and I'm certain that millions of others, Independents and Democrats alike, share my sentiment.

At this point, the election is John McCain's to lose.  Facing a nearly divided Democratic Party and an opponent who has exchanged his disingenuous and pompous "us-we-our" perspective for the more presumptuous and pompous "I-me-my."

I support John McCain in 2008 because I'm tired of the lies that are regurgitated by the Democratic Party and processed for propaganda purposes by the media.  I'm tired of politicians who don't know what they believe in.  I'm tired of politicians who don't do what they say.  I'm tired of the Democratic Party.  And even though I have opposed the war in Iraq, I know that no matter who is elected, the war will continue.  It's a matter of government policy.  So I say run with it, John.  I trust you to bring the war to a proper conclusion without destroying our reputation.  Yeah, it sounds like the same old cut-and-run rant, but you know what?  This time it's true.

And when John is too tired to run again in 2012, Hillary Clinton will be there waiting in the wings and we Clintonites and TRUE Democrats at heart will finally have a president worthy of our pride and trust again and not some pretender and anarchist motivated by his own personal ambition and without a principle to lean on.  And if not, give us a real independent candidate.  Someone like Jesse Ventura would do just fine.  The real deal.  A real American who sees the bigger picture and knows what our country really needs.  Minds over hearts.