It just occurred to me the other day that media has missed the biggest story staring everybody in the face: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) are positioning themselves to be running mates. 

Yeah, you didn't notice.  Clinton calls Barack Obama elitist; McCain calls him elitist.  McCain calls for a moratorium on the gas tax; Clinton, at first rebuffs the idea, then embraces it.  The both voted for the war in Iraq.  They both feel they are entitled to the White House job and not at that guy who speaks so well.  Maybe a bit farfetched, but Clinton is using better rhetoric than the presumed Republican presidential nominee.  In fact, it's as if she's been feeding McCain lines.  Furthermore, Clinton is running as if she IS McCain since both are trying to dethrone Obama. 

It's clear the Clintonistas believe that they can weaken Obama's broad base of supporters by painting him as an extreme candidate who is out of touch.  Clinton's strategists basically have given McCain the playbook for the Fall election - if she doesn't figure out a way to grab the nomination herself.  Come Wednesday, May 7th, the Democratic political process will be in even more disarray, as Clinton may just narrowly win victories in Indiana and North Carolina.  

That only raises more doubts in the minds of borderline Obama supporters who will resort to their party lines - even though they really don't want McCain! When those crossover voters stay home, Clinton is in the driver's seat, pulling in votes from a very focused group of older, more conservative Democratic voters who have bought into the "Obama's not ready" scenario and if Obama is elected, who knows, he might name Rev. Jeremiah Wright as Secretary of State.

The old fear-factor-mud-slinging by both Clinton and McCain is right out of the Karl Rove playbook.  Push your opponent so far into a corner about trivial matters that may or may not be true, and your opponent eventually will lash out and look like a weak, whining disconnected candidate.

Both Clinton and McCain are consciously playing off each's other's divisive tactics to eliminate the one man who stands in their way to their coveted position. If it does come down to Clinton and McCain in the fall, let's just get rid of the party lines.  Let them be co-presidents ... and after the first 100 days, let's see who's still standing.