Battle Royale

Back when I was a kid we used to watch wrestling. My brother Robbie was the first to get the bug, first going to Florida Championship matches at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Ultimately though he convinced me, and I still remember my first WWF event in Pennsylvania featuring Rocky Johnson, SD Jones, The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkov, The Samoans, and Sergeant Slaughter. Today, it seems like we are heading towards what they call the Battle Royale in which all the wrestlers are in the ring at once and are each gradually eliminated through allegiances and ganging up by the other wrestlers against each individual guy. The current campaign is slowly turning into just such an event. In this case you have one tag team (Bush and McCain) and 2 solo wrestlers (Obama and Clinton) who are all battling it out.

Bush has every reason to help McCain and so for the foreseeable future he and McCain figure to focus in on similar themes against whomever McCain decides to take on in the moment. Obama and Clinton both know that they will not be able to go at this together and so they will have to take out each other while the tag team gets to sit back and take its shots when it can.

Once one of our solo wrestlers are out of the ring the tag team will take on whomever is left. Now the twist in this type of match is that miraculously the tag team guys never end up winning. Eventually one of them picks up a chair and accidentally knocks his partner out of the ring or goes over the top rope trying to complete a tough two man kill and I think that is what we will see here.

Eventually, McCain will have to throw Bush out of the ring. Bush's negative number is just to high and approval to low to be enough of a help to McCain to be worthy of hanging on to.