| The Curate's Egg. |
[Feb. 13th, 2008|01:26 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  hopeful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | the wailing and gnashing of teeth | ] |
Fun, fun, fun on the Autobahn.
OH MAN I've been typing like a madman. Typity-type-type. Scaring my roommates is what I do best. I have long since given up on the pretense of not hearing their bad sex... now I've started turning on porn whenever they're at it and churning one out. I think it's only fair.
Well, on the romantic front, the ex who wanted back in was officially told where to go. It was hard to do because I really do care about him. I'm just not eager to restart that mess. My phonebills can't take it.
Also: I can almost guarantee whose idea the "superdelegate" system was, and it's turning around and biting his wife's ass hard. It has a serious chance of pissing off a huge amount of the rank-and-file, and could end up winning Hilary the battle... but losing the war. That said, Obama won ALL of today's primaries, and that leaves Hilary with the unmitigated requirement to carry both Ohio and Texas, a feat which is looking less and less likely each day.
With the hope of a Hilary gift bag diminishing, the conservative talking heads are rapidly running out of things to talk about... except sniping at McCain. This has two very likely outcomes to it that will further drive the Republicans into the hole:
1) McCain panders to the conservatives in his party. This draws him out of the center, which he is relying on, and pushes the moderates into the camp of Obama.
2) McCain keeps on keepin' on, and the conservatives actively lose interest in keeping this year's vote. Since McCain is notably not a fan of conservative stump-issues like abortion or gay rights, the "ZOMG BABY KILLERS AND ZOMG MANDATORY ANAL RAPE" crowd will likely stay at home... or, more likely, impress upon Huckabee the demand to run as a third party candidate.
Either way, the Republicans are screwed. This is the first interesting presidential race in decades, because it's the first one without the obligatory nomination of either a Bush or a Clinton. One side is stuck with a weird old coot that nobody really trusts and that they seem to actively be sabotaging at every turn, and the other side won't get their collective heads out of their class-category ass to just pony up and make Obama the motherfucking candidate already. The election has been gift wrapped and frosted for the Democrats. They need to just take it.
The whole party system becomes painfully thin during times like these... the Democratic Party reveals itself as a toothpicked-together junior high school science project of various self-interested little cliques (women's rights, minority rights, gay rights, unioneers, etc) that are perpetually doing a crappy community theater production of Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, while the Republican Party reveals itself as a pack of corporate cronies dedicated to stasis and dependent solely upon the continued maintenance of fear and hegemony over the Middle-Class-White-Males who pay attention to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity for continued survival.
Bishop: "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones"; Curate: "Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!" |
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