Me, not the PhantomWife, with whom I had a rare political conversation this morning.
No, the Presidential race this year is muddled. I mean, forget that my fourth favorite Republican is going to be the nominee. (The first three were Rudy, Fred Thompson, and Romney in that order.)
On the Democrats side it will be either the Screecher or the Holey Man.
I mean, with Obama, there really doesn't seem to be any there there, other than naked ambition and the willingness to say something with utter conviction to one crowd while backchannelling to the Good Old Boys that it's just talk.
And then there's Hillary, and I just totally lost what the difference would be.....
Oh, wait, the difference would be that she's putatively heard Bill talking in his sleep, and she took notes or something, so she's at least taken the Presidency 101 course vicariously. Obama didn't even CLEP it.
Whatever.
So to Karol's commenter Shawn who said...
Just you? I'm seeing a clash between politics as usual and a new politics based on hopeful change.
...I would recommend he listen real close to the lyrics to Baba O'Riley before getting too invested in the hopeful change thing. Especially if the agent of said change happens to have cut his teeth in Chicago politics.
I mean, jeeeezus. How gullible can an electorate get?
On the other hand, both of them strike me as less stupid than a bucket of bricks, so the Democrats will be fielding their best challenger since 1992, one way or the other.
So I guess this is a better-than-average cycle for this Republic, heaven help us.