Election Update from Karl Rove

Rove is known to many as President Bush's chief political strategist who is now in private life working as a political commentator. Here is the link to his current analysis of the presidential race. Here are the highlights: 1.) Obama will be the Democrat nominee; 2.) McCain is the best nominee the Republicans could have put forward given the dynamics of this election year. The general election will be very competitive. For Catholics, the choice is crystal clear: McCain is pro-life; Obama is enthusiastically pro-abortion. Start thinking now how you will participate in the general election campaign. Consider a McCain lawn sign or volunteering for the McCain campaign. But the most important thing you can do is to tell the people you know that you support McCain because he is pro-life. Word of mouth witnessing is the best "persuader." McCain will work to reverse Roe v. Wade. For Obama, Roe v. Wade is holy writ.

My own reflections on the state of the election are these:

1.) We have seen a stunning, welcome, and historic defeat of the Clinton duo--an arrogant, morally confused blight on American politics, society, and culture since 1992;

2.) We now have in Obama a doctrinaire leftist nominee for the Democrats who is unfit to be President simply by virtue of the highly ambiguous and tenuous nature of his affection for the United States of America;

3.) McCain will provide a fresh Republican face, reformist, pragmatic, and conservative, that will defy the ideological stereotypes of Republicans in recent years.