A lot has been written and said in recent days – including by yours truly – about Senator John McCain’s strategy to win the elections in November. According to many observers, again myself included, McCain has failed to use dirt he and his campaign have on Obama. The main reasons, it has become clear in recent days, for McCain’s refusal to use some dirt – such as Obama’s relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives, his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, and many others – against Obama is that he fears that it will be used against him.

McCain, reports indicate, fear that criticizing Obama too much will result in him being labeled a ‘racist.’

Although that fear is understandable, the sad reality is that he will be accused of racism no matter what he does. An ‘analysis’ published by the Associated Press yesterday, is evidence enough for this statement; Sarah Palin criticized Obama for having had a professional relationship with domestic terrorist turned ‘innocent’ radical Bill Ayers, and was immediately accused of racism. This while Ayers is white and race did not play any role whatsoever in the allegation.

The use of the ‘race card’ is a strategy constantly employed by the Obama campaign and its allies during the Democratic primaries. Lest we forget, they ended up accusing Bill and Hillary Clinton of racism; two of the least racist politicians in America today, it was not for nothing that Bill Clinton was nicknamed ‘the first black president.’

Race once was an issue to be used against black candidates. This is a sad reality. Nowadays, however, the situation has changed. Appealing to racism will not help one win elections, instead it will help one lose them. This is why McCain and others are careful to say nothing about Obama that could reasonably be interpreted as racism or racial prejudice.

No, racism does not help one win elections, but if one uses the race card in the role of perceived victim it does help. This is what Obama and his allies have been doing for months, and they have stepped up the efforts to depict themselves as victims of racism in the last few weeks and especially in the last days. They will continue to do so in the weeks ahead. When this is all over and done, roughly half of the American people will be convinced that the other half is racist. In return, this ‘other’ half will consider the other part of the population to be fake, cowardly, hypocritical, and without a sense of right and wrong, let alone an ounce of honesty.

What will happen, then, is that the country will be divided more than in the last few decades. If Obama wins, and I believe he will, he will rule over a deeply divided nation, the American people will be roughly split in two, with one half angry at the other half, and vice versa.

This is, in my opinion, what will happen no matter what. The next president will preside over one of the most divided times in modern U.S. history. If McCain wins, he will face the same problem, quite possibly with many African Americans openly rebelling, causing chaos and igniting (potentially violent) protests, because the MSM and the Obama campaign told them time and again that the only thing possible preventing Obama from becoming America’s next president was white America’s racism.

All of which leads me to the conclusion that, if either candidate wants to win, he will have to take the gloves off. As far as I am concerned, Obama never had the gloves on. He merely pretended he wore them. McCain, on the other hand, did and continues to pick and choose dirt on Obama he wants to use in the campaign. There are some issues he considers not done.

If McCain wants to win, however, that attitude will have to be dropped. He should go all out, all negative, all the time. Obama and his allies have depicted McCain as a racist, dishonorable enabler of big business – if McCain wants to win, he will have to return the favor; there is enough material available to successfully portray Obama as a radical, anti-American progressive enabler of radical regimes and an enemy of traditional U.S. ally Israel. There is, again, more than enough material to work with in order to destroy Obama’s image, and to convince a majority of Americans that the man should never become president.

However, this is not what McCain will do. He will continue to pick and choose dirt to use, and by doing so, he will destroy his own chances of winning. He will not be willing to do what Obama did to him; completely attempt to destroy the other’s reputation. Some would consider that honorable, others would consider that ignorant; after all, the other side is doing it and this election is too important to let moral objections play a role, these individuals will argue.

Whatever your perspective, the fact of the matter is that McCain’s unwillingness to declare war on Obama, even though Obama has most certainly declared war on him, means he does not deserve to win. In the end, the one who is willing to do whatever it takes to win is the one who deserves to succeed. That is a law of life, and a law of politics especially.

Afterwards, of course, McCain will have no legitimate reason to complain and nag about Obama’s and his allies’ heavy handed tactics. He knew they would destroy him, and he let them. This means he enabled them to succeed; and enablers should not count on compassion or understanding.