Wow, an actual political discussion! I'll have to think about this one.

Every single Republican candidate has some serious flaws in my opinion. But you know what? I will vote for whoever the heck has a good chance of taking down Hillary. Many idealists disagree, but I truly believe we sometimes need to vote for the less of the two evils. That will probably be Thompsan or Giuliani. We'll see

So we're getting ever closer to november and stuff is gettin crazy. Hilary and Obama are neck and neck, which makes me pretty happy because the more they divide up the democratic party the easier it will be for McCain to take the general election.

Basically the dem's have screwed the pooch in several key ways.

1) alienated florida and michigan. most of the canidates pulled themselves off of FL and MI's ballots because they broke some dumb early voting rule. now those two states will have virtually no say in the primaries. if i was a democrat in either of these states i'd be pissed as hell, pissed enough to vote republican. and florida is ALWAYS a key state.

2) smear campaigns already. usually we dont get to see canidates bash on each other until after both parties have a candidate. now we have both democratic choices making each other look horrible. obama had that minister who said "God damn america", hilary exagerates like crazy. my favorite example of this is her saying that she has diplomatic experience because she took a trip to Bosina while her husband was in the white house and "landed in the middle of sniper fire" and said there was no welcoming cermony and everyone ran to their cars with their heads down to get away. when clips of her arrival surfaced to show that she lied about all of it, she said it was a "misstatement" and such misstatements are bound to happen because she says "millions of words a day." i did some quick number crunching, to say a million words a day you'd have to say about 11 words a second, give or take. so she exagerated about her trip to bosnia, and then she exaggerated about how much she flaps her chops per day. anyway, the longer this drags on the crappier both of them will look, and then during the REAL election McCain will be able to bring all of this stuff up again to further cream whoever ends up running.

3) Super delegates. i didnt even know what these were until i wikipedia'd it. what i found was perhaps the most undemocratic part of the entire democratic system of democratically elections. a super delegate is a high ranking democrat who gets to vote in the primary. their votes count about as much as 1000 normal voters, give or take. and to top it all off they have no obligation to vote for the most popular candidate. so with how close the race between obama and clinton is, the winner may be chosen by some washington bigshots instead of the voters. WOW. again, if i was a democrat, and this race came down to where the super delagates got to decide the winner, i'd be pissed enough to vote republican (republicans have no super delegates, by the way)

4) Polarizing their own party. pretty much democrats are evenly split between these two jerks. that means if someone loves one enough, when the other one wins, that person may choose not to vote, or vote for the other side. McCain is likely to have about 100% of voting republicans' votes. hil/obama? who knows! a funny part of this is that apparently Clinton tried to remedy the situation by suggesting that if primary voters chose her, she'd take obama as her VP candidate. a sensible move, since most democrats could get behind that...but apparently she never bounced the idea off Obama, who almost immediately replied that that wasn't going to happen. so Clintion looked like a dumbass again. HA!

Please, someone else weigh in on the election at this point, because i really think its starting to get interesting.