Do you suppose that we would even be mentioning Barrack Obama as a viable candidate for the Democrat nomination if He, and not Hillary Clinton had lost 11 or 12 straight primaries? It seems pretty likely he'd be getting the Huckabee treatment. In a way, I really hope Clinton wins Texas and/or Ohio in order to force someone on the donkey side to start articulating whatever small differences there are in the way they would govern. Plus it's fun to watch them beat each other about the head and shoulders.

I guess I'm resigned to McCain as the Republican nominee, and the news is not all that bad for me. He is after all about the only politician in Washington who was against the Iraq war up front, but when it was a go, he was behind it even as he was calling for more troops to make sure it was viable. He was calling for a surge before anyone else I can think of.

I think he was wrong on the amnesty bill that bore his name, and his status as a leading member of the gang of fourteen makes me think he really doesn't stand for the principles he is now trying to claim, I don't think it's always a bad thing to compromise.
And it has been hilarious to see him become entrapped in his own legislation this past week, the McCain-Feingold act, as he has run out of money, and legally cannot get help from his own party.

I think, he may stand a better chance against Clinton and
Obama than nearly everyone is giving him credit for, because there are real differences between whomever the Democrat nominee is and McCain.

I think the swooning rock concert that is Obamamania has built too quickly to sustain itself for another six months without him having to say something substantial in terms of policy or direction. He is campaigning in a similar way to Ronaldus Magnus in 1980 invoking the "need for change", however Reagan, as the campaign went on Reagan was very specific in how he would limit government. Obama's rhetoric is all about growing government, and aside from class warfare, is deliberately unspecific about how we would pay for 300 billion in new spending, when as he says we can't afford to be at war.

Hillary's negatives are so high she would have a difficult time getting enough support from independents to be elected, and even democrat's seem to be tired of the Clinton slash and burn style of politics. To paraphrase Bill Bennett, It seems the time has come at last to "sick up what was ingested in the name of power."