Both Dems racing toward defeat

AFP – Voters in North Carolina and Indiana weighed in on the fates of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Tuesday, in the most significant contests left in their presidential showdown.

Opinion polls suggested Obama was positioned to win in North Carolina and Clinton could take Indiana, in a split which would keep her long-odds hopes of a comeback alive, but raise new fears of deep splits in the Democratic Party.
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Whatever the outcome, neither candidate can win enough delegates Tuesday to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.

But victory or defeat in either state could sway the "superdelegates" -- Democratic Party bosses set to cast deciding votes in the stalemate.
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Clinton currently trails Obama in nominating contest wins and pledged delegates. His campaign says he is now only 273 votes short of capturing the Democratic Party nod.

Clinton's camp admits she cannot overtake the Illinois senator in the count of pledged delegates who will formally anoint the nominee at the Democratic convention in August.

So she is trying to persuade superdelegates that her rival would be a liability against McCain.

With primaries in both NC and IN, tonight is gonna be interesting. But no matter which Dem eventually takes the nomination, both are poised to push America over a cliff. That's what I mean when I say both Democrats are racing toward defeat. It doesn't matter which one wins the primary. If one of them gets into the Oval Office, America will lose. Whether it's a continuation of recent reckless spending and the additional confiscatory taxes required to fund it, governmental takeover of 20% of America's GDP (euphemistically termed "universal healthcare"), retreat in Iraq, open borders anarchy, or a combination of all the above, many deluded Americans who say "it can't get any worse" seem eager to enable Obama or Hillary to prove them dead wrong.

The GOP isn't doing much better. Allahpundit translates Newt Gingrich's 9 Acts Of Real Change plan, intended as a wake-up call to the Republican party:

"The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Reverend Wright, or (if Senator Clinton wins), anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail."

Damn skippy. Watching the Democrats implode is fun, but won't get us anywhere after this election. It's time for the GOP to sound off with some ideas that demonstrate leadership and common sense, not just lofty rhetoric and feel-good platitudes. Check out Gingrich's plan. It's not perfect, but it's a start. The moratorium on earmarks is a good idea, as are the budget cuts, oil and energy initiatives, and English as our unifying language.

America is collectively disgusted with our current direction. And the Democrats continue to prove themselves incapable of leading in a coherent, positive direction. McCain, as flawed as he is, better wake up and smell the coffee. As should we all.