Oh, God, please, no:
ORLANDO, Fla. - President Bush suggested Wednesday that he'd like to see his family's White House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb as the chief executive.
The president said Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is well-suited for another office and would make “a great president.”
Careful what you put in writing -- it will come back to haunt you. Greg Walker, mainly an anti-abortion candidate, didn't really make public flogging part of his successful campaign to unseat longtime Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Robert Garton. But he did, once upon a time, speak favorably of it in a letter to the editor in the Columbus Republic. Now, it's all anybody wants to talk about:
Hillary Clinton is like Ronald Reagan -- that's the best one I've heard in the last year:
"I was trying to think, who in my lifetime has been such a dominant frontrunner and yet people had been nervous about his electability - and I came up with Ronald Reagan," Clift told the Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" on Sunday.
The Newsweek scribe noted that Reagan "was the oldest person, at that time, to try to contest for the presidency as a frontrunner."
A few more boring political comments before we get back to the fun stuff like UFOs and deer hunts:
No big surprises in yesterday's primary, but a couple of smaller ones. I thought the Marla Irving-Bill Brown commissioner contest would be the close one, but Brown took almost 63 percent of the vote. The Linda Bloom-Roy Buskirk race turned out to be one of the closest ones of the day -- Bloom won with 53.6 percent of the vote. The GiaQuinta-Paddock race was a little closer than I thought it would be -- GiaQuinta won 56-44 percent -- but Ken Fries won the GOP sheriff's race as handily as everyone thought he would, with 52.2 percent, more than his three opponents combined.
I know your heads are just filled with campaign information, from the candidates and newspapers and radio and TV and even blogs. In the case there is a race or two you are still trying to decide about at the last minute, I offer this timely election graphic that should give you all you need to know to make up your mind.
The gasoline "crisis" has brought out the worst in everybody, including the ridiculous spectacle of craven Republicans shamelessly trying to outpander the Democrats. Investigate Big Oil! Give everybody a hundred bucks to tide them over! For the record, if that matters anymore, here's a pretty good breakdown from NPR of just where your gas money goes. It includes this surprisingly honest and accurate assessment:
I know many of you -- perhaps most -- will vote Tuesday in the primary you've always voted in. But maybe some of you are like me and vote in the primary that seems the most interesting or has a race or two you'd really like to express yourself on. It's usually not too difficult at the Allen County level -- Republicans have so much of a lock that I've seldom voted in the Democratic primary (there often being few contests in the first place). But I'm having trouble deciding which primary to vote in this year.
Just in case you think our polical campaigns sometimes get too personal:
Among the crowing, slurs and insults being flung around in Mexico's election race, campaign ads in this country are even competing over which candidate has the greatest manhood.
Just For The Record notes Mark Souder's recent radio ad and wonders if we can now draw the conclusion that he is, heh-heh, a one-issue candidate just like William Larsen, the only difference being that his issue is the War on Drugs rather than Social Security. I heard that ad, too, and something else struck me about it.
