4)I could never vote for a guy with the name “Huckabee,” but apparently a lot of other people can.
5)Utah voters are the smartest voters in the world (Nevada, Montana,
Wyoming, Alaska, Minnesota, Maine, Michigan and Colorado voters are
also pretty darned smart. Sorry, Massachusetts voters are not very
smart overall — just look at who else they’ve elected over the years).
6)McCain and Huckabee’s maneuver in West Virginia was pretty darned slimey.
7)Or maybe McCain and Huckabee’s maneuver was just good politics, and
if Mitt Romney had been able to pull it off I would have been saying
how smart he is.
8)It looks increasingly likely that conservative Republicans like
myself are basically going to opt out of this election from June until
November. I just can’t see that much of a difference between McCain and
Hillary/Obama. I’ve tried and tried to be optimistic about this, but in
the end McCain is simply unacceptable to me as a conservative. I may
not vote at all for the first time in a presidential election since
1984.
9)I think a lot of liberals, when they look at the desperate tactics
used by the Clintons so far, are starting to understand why
conservatives dislike the Clintons so much. It’s not their stand on the
issues — I think you can make a strong argument that the Clintons are
a moderating influence on the Democrats and that’s not a bad thing —
it’s the complete lack of principles. I have yet to meet a Mormon
Democrat who supports Clinton over Obama.
10)It’s going to be a very long four years starting Jan. 2009.