Fitch!

[rain_gryphon]

I started out this electoral cycle rather liking Mitt Romney. Part of that was because I felt his dad got treated very unfairly back in '68, which was the first election I really watched. Part of it was just my overall impression of him - he did a great job with the Olympics. The more I actually saw of him, though, the less I liked him. There's something just hollow and phoney about that man.

Tonight I'm having a good time watching McCain and Huckabee tag-team him. It's been patently obvious since the first debates that none of the other candidates like the man one little bit. Now McCain's caucussers have thrown in with Huckabee in West Virginia just to spite Romney of a state he could have won. I'm busy bwahahahaing, just enjoying the mean-spirited fun of it.

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Some of the Fox commentators were comparing this to 1968 earlier. It certainly feels that way to me. This is the most I've enjoyed an election since that first one. It's certainly the most wide-open and freewheeling election in forty years. People are actually excited about this year. The irony is that the primary reforms enacted after 1968 were meant to stop this sort of thing, and produce tame concensus candidates. It's taken 10 cycles for the system to work around the damage, and get back to exciting and contentious elections.

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Does anyone know who the Dog is?

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And now Huckabee spends much of his press conference mean-mouthing Romney :)

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And now McCain beats Romney in California. The Romney campaign is smoking wreckage, and McCain will get the nomination. This is going to be some mighty hard cheese for ol' Rush Limbaugh :)

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McCain has his mother at his press conference. She must be about 100 years old.

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There's a huge roll of thunder outside. The FlasterCat goes streaking past me towards the bedroom to hide. First lightning storm of the spring.

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Obama is, if nothing else, an outstanding public speaker, with a rhythm and delivery to match JFK's. It's a pity his supporters have to break into chanting every two minutes. That seems to be de rigeur for liberal audiences.

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[dakhun.livejournal.com]

It's a pity his supporters have to break into chanting every two minutes.

This picture makes me laugh. :-) She's absolutely going to explode. I mean it - stand back!

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Some of the Fox commentators were comparing this to 1968 earlier. It certainly feels that way to me.

So, who's going to have the disastrous Chicago Convention wrecked by their party's radicals, and who's going to get to be "Nixon?" :)

[loganberrybunny.livejournal.com]

McCain has his mother at his press conference. She must be about 100 years old.

She's 95; there was a brief interview with her on the BBC last night. Very impressive for her age: maybe she's going to be her son's vice-president! =;)

It's a pity his supporters have to break into chanting every two minutes.

I can't stand that. Thankfully it hasn't infected British politics too badly yet, but I suspect it may be coming.