Fast and Furious

HERE IT COMES
Wow, change, change, change, no not the incessant anti-pedantic russlings of every candidate, but the change in the lineup itself. Fred Thompson, the reluctant candidate looking for a leading role led ineptly by the former advisor to the 1996 Bob Dole campaign, a campaign likely the least vigorous campaign since McKinley drank lemonade on his front porch.

Kucinich, was summoned back to his home planet, destined to finally do some work for his district also left the race, leaving people to wonder if a vegan will ever be a viable candidate in a country full of meat eaters and milk drinkers.
The demise of these two candidates of course leaves IN TOUCH and US Magazine readers pondering when the next photogenic first lady will grace Pennsylania Avenue and Maxim readers devoid of a FLILF.

KISS HIM GOODBYE
Wow, seems like just yesterday the Lord of New York was the frontrunner. Rudy was the tough guy who didn't want to fight. The guy in the bar who starts something and walks away, leaving his friends with a fight and the check.

Rudy was used to being the boss and frankly in a campaign you aren't the boss. You need to listen and work, shake hands and grovel with common folks. The irony of a Giuliani campaign is that it seems like he forgot where he came from, middle class kid, who did well in school, always the smartest guy in the room.

He became the political bully, surrounding himself with sycophants and hangers-on. Rudy saw himself as untouchable, the primary elections an inconvenience on his way to controlling the most power war machine and national security appartus of all time, along with the largest chest of treasure.

In some ways, Giuliani's campaign aimed itself at the same type of voter that may have voted for McCain, the more socially moderate, but strong national security candidates, lacking in evangelical credentials. McCain however, McCain is a real hero, not a manufactured hero. Rudy's exploits and tough talk after the assault on America is rhetoric in the face of McCain's heroism and with everything else even, McCain's history of being able to work across the aisle make him a far more electable candidate in the general election for moderates and independents despite his age.

JOHNNY BE GONE?
So my endorsements don't mean much and absent a huge surge by Mike Gravel on Super Duper Tuesday, history will be made in Denver when the Democrats nominate either a person of color or woman for candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. (unless some weird Draft Gore campaign begins) John saw his weakness in his home state of South Carolina and later in the beauty contest in Florida. It will be interesting to see what role he will play in the rest of the campaign, what he brings to the convention and what his future is in American politics.

The polls for Feb. 5th must have gotten to him, the power of the Obama and Clinton campaigns, the real star power eclipsed this son of millworkers. More on Johnny later, but on to SUPER DUPER TUESDAY, my biggest blogging day of the year. I don't think my primary vote in Massachusetts has ever mattered, it's nice to have a little voice in this whole thing.