Political Pyro

The recent financial meltdown on Wall Street may have been years in the making, but the climax has certainly come at a questionable time: two months before Election Day. The only problem is — no one seems to be asking the question:

How is it that trillion dollar corporations sliding into a hole of bad debt, hundreds of billions of dollars deep, suddenly decide to throw in the towel two months before Election Day?

Certainly, the red ink of last month’s crisis existed in, say, March. Or even January.

Either we are in the midst of the Mother of All Coincidences, or the Democrats have finally figured out how to engage in Rovian-style political warfare.

Perhaps it is impossible to wrap the mind around the prospect of a controlled demolition of such breadth and scope, but when one considers that the entire devastation on Wall Street occurred after the little Dutch boy (Barney Frank) removed his finger from the dike, the possibility of subterfuge becomes plausible.

Had Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac not been controlled by elected government Democrats, and had they not been the first to go under, I might dismiss this notion as an impossibly complex conspiracy theory involving multiple CEOs, board members, and a trillion dollar gamble of ridiculous proportions.

But they were.

The financial collapse, whether coincidental or orchestrated, is undoubtedly helping Barack Obama. At this point, John McCain has only one way to win this thing, and I’m not talking about Ayers, Wright, and Odinga. This approach no longer works. Apparently, the American voter is willing to elect Adolf Hitler as long as he’s black and a Democrat.

The only thing that can save John McCain is Israel.

With the bipartisan bailout now in place, McCain sorely needs the subject to be changed. Given the fact that Americans have a seriously short attention span, the financial collapse will be old news by next week. Only Israel, who has stated a desire to take out Iranian nuclear capabilities, can sufficiently change the current subject.

Bill Clinton was guilty of wagging the dog when he bombed Serbia at the onset of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. So why not Bush, McCain, and Israel?

By ridding the world of a growing international threat through the use of force, not only can Israel reassure Americans that the military is capable of instantly resolving a crisis (without a protracted ground war and occupation), but they can cast a "vote of no confidence" for an Obama administration unwilling to support them, and help elect their preferred presidential candidate: John McCain.

Prediction: Israel bombs Iran and John McCain wins by a nose.