The pols are slugging it out again tonight, hoping for a definitive outcome on Super Tuesday. I don't think it will happen. I doubt if anyone except John McCain will come away with definitive results.
I don't really understand why they call it "Super". They should call it a blitzkreig. That makes about as much sense. Over-whelming force that leaves people addled. Nothing super about it.
Still, my dream would be for Huckabee to sweep. Once he says "23% sales tax" and someone actually listens, he's dead in the water. He's such a goof-ball that any real campaign he mounted would implode beneath him.
Doesn't matter in the long run, though. I don't see an electable Republican on the scene. Huckabee's a stooge, Romney is too far to the right and McCain is running as Bush-light.
The country, by and large, has already rejected all of the above. And while McCain may get some mileage out of "Bush-light", he's most likely to end up landing on skid row on that platform.
The good news is that Democrats are turning out in numbers that usually dwarf the dark side. More Democrats are turning up for caucuses and primaries than ever before. And if they take the time to vote at this level, they'll most likely vote in the general election.
The tide seems to be turning.
I'll leave you with a short passage from "Julius Caesar":
Our legions are brimful, our cause is ripe;
The enemy increaseth every day;
We, at the height, are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat...
Oh, and one final piece of advice: don't mess with truth, no matter where you find it. Even dead poets have things to contribute that remain relevant.
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