Barack Obama's Southern strategy

I'm rather proud of the fact that the South remains an undigested slab in the Empire's bottomless craw. After all these decades, the ruling elite still doesn't know what to do with us. The Democratic heir aberrant has to win over a sizeable chunk of that slab to win the crown, so he's going to do his best to razzle and dazzle us -- starting with the razzle:

Obama needs them—in the valley and elsewhere in the South—if he plans to make good on his pledge to compete seriously below the Mason-Dixon line. It is a region that essentially has belonged to the Republican Party since the 1960s. Even Virginia, which has been turning blue as its Washington-area suburbs mushroom, hasn't voted for a Democrat for president since LBJ in 1964.

Undaunted by history—or the fact that he is a Yankee with a liberal voting record—Obama is committing staff and major TV advertising in three Southern states: Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia.

What would you like to bet that the Great O presents himself as the most conservative candidate since Ronald Reagan to sweep through Dixie? And he might just pull it off, too, thanks to the dazzling incompetence of the Bush regime:

For Berry, the Obama organizer, the key is not to come off as an alien "penetrating" force, but as an unassuming fellow eager to help the locals unlock neighbor to-neighbor sentiments in a region that the GOP has long taken for granted. "There are lots of disgruntled Republicans coming to us," he says.

Yes, there are, including many of my neighbors, most of whom still think secession is unrealistic, but are willing to hold their noses and vote for what they see as a wild liberal as the strongest protest they can imagine. With enough angry Republicans like that, McCain might get the smack in the face he deserves.

Which is fine by me. After all, would we prefer a metrosexual, liberal Yankee in power, or a phony "maverick" who'll put a conservative veneer on an identical, globalist agenda?