Today's Primary Winnowing
So the results of the Florida primary are in, Hillary Clinton and John McCain have won on the Democratic and Republican sides respectively, and in the same order John Edwards and Rudolph Guiliani have dropped out.
It's too bad about both men. A lot of people whose opinions I respect preferred Edwards over Clinton and Obama, and maybe his day will come yet.
I take a dim view toward Guiliani's positions. but I did pay attention to his big gamble, of skipping the primaries in the small states. This wasn't because of any disdain I might have for those states, and in fact I have fewer questions about Iowa and New Hampshire than I have about Indiana and Idaho, or Texas and Oklahoma, and a couple of other pairings as well. But I was interested in seeing how Guiliani's strategy would affect primary campaigning in future years, if he had succeeded. I hoped it might shorten the season, which goes on far too long and in fact never ends.
Now, with the "National Primary" just a week away, Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner for the Democrats, and that's okay, and John McCain is in the lead for the Repubs.
The country would be in trouble no matter who the frontrunner for the Repubs is. That's been the case for a great many years.
But it is extra daunting to try to imagine John McCain as President. I don't understand at all his appeal to moderates and senior citizens, as the media proclaimed in Florida. I think of his thought processes as being every bit as jumbled as those of the man whose bloody boots he would like to wear.
I told my wife this morning of how McCain said recently that he wouldn't object to keeping American soldiers in Iraq for 100, 1,000 or an even longer number of years, with the strict proviso that no American soldiers are killed. But every day it appears that at least one American soldier is killed, and recently the Iraqis offed a much larger number in a single day, and there's no reason at all to think that they wouldn't have a similar appetite in 2, 5, 10, 100, and 1,000 years from now.
My wife exclaimed, "That means he's for withdrawing American troops right now!"
That's what a logical person would think, but it's certain that McCain and logic are not on speaking terms with each other.
It's too bad about both men. A lot of people whose opinions I respect preferred Edwards over Clinton and Obama, and maybe his day will come yet.
I take a dim view toward Guiliani's positions. but I did pay attention to his big gamble, of skipping the primaries in the small states. This wasn't because of any disdain I might have for those states, and in fact I have fewer questions about Iowa and New Hampshire than I have about Indiana and Idaho, or Texas and Oklahoma, and a couple of other pairings as well. But I was interested in seeing how Guiliani's strategy would affect primary campaigning in future years, if he had succeeded. I hoped it might shorten the season, which goes on far too long and in fact never ends.
Now, with the "National Primary" just a week away, Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner for the Democrats, and that's okay, and John McCain is in the lead for the Repubs.
The country would be in trouble no matter who the frontrunner for the Repubs is. That's been the case for a great many years.
But it is extra daunting to try to imagine John McCain as President. I don't understand at all his appeal to moderates and senior citizens, as the media proclaimed in Florida. I think of his thought processes as being every bit as jumbled as those of the man whose bloody boots he would like to wear.
I told my wife this morning of how McCain said recently that he wouldn't object to keeping American soldiers in Iraq for 100, 1,000 or an even longer number of years, with the strict proviso that no American soldiers are killed. But every day it appears that at least one American soldier is killed, and recently the Iraqis offed a much larger number in a single day, and there's no reason at all to think that they wouldn't have a similar appetite in 2, 5, 10, 100, and 1,000 years from now.
My wife exclaimed, "That means he's for withdrawing American troops right now!"
That's what a logical person would think, but it's certain that McCain and logic are not on speaking terms with each other.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 11:37 AM
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