The Appeal of a Lack of Variety

Since only a handful of docile Republicans remain loyal to King George, and since Americans love polls, forward to 2008 we look.

Hillary Clinton is the clear front-runner among Democrats when voters are asked to choose which one candidate they would prefer for the Democratic nomination for president, but the current poll finds Democrats are about equally likely to rate Clinton, John Edwards, and Al Gore as acceptable nominees.

The far left doesn't like Clinton, or so I've been told, but since a Murtha/Feingold ticket only works in blogland--where money doesn't matter and everyone thinks like you--Clinton seems a likely favorite for the nomination. Remember, Hillary and John Kerry are the only two democrats who can raise enough money to merit the nomination for leader of the republic. John Kerry lost once, ergo, Queen Hillary.

Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain typically vie for the lead in Republican preference polls, but a greater percentage of Republicans say they would find Giuliani acceptable than say this about McCain (73% to 55%). Four in 10 Republicans say they would not find McCain to be an acceptable GOP presidential nominee. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is also widely considered by Republicans to be an acceptable nominee.

It will be interesting to see which faux-conservative gets the nod to be the sacrificial offering to the newly chosen Queen. Faux-conservative is probably not the right term; it is far too suggestive of conservatism, something these three obviously lack.

When the nominee is crowned, I will sit back and enjoy the spectacle of the conservative commentariat demanding that we elect a globalist, pro-choice, interventionist, spendaholic, lest Hillary win. While I do not hold the former first lady in high regard, and while her ascendence to the thrown will surely accelerate the death of the republic, it is laughable to suggest that someone who is cut from the same cloth will do anything to stop the inevitable demise of this once fair land.

If the Grand Old Party wishes for folks such as myself to find our political home therein, they need to stop with this nonsense. Some of us have bothered to think without the aid of Rush Limbaugh.

The Who comes to mind:

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the party on the left
Is now the party on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

Actually, we probably will. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!