It's a mess

MLK Day
John Edwards and Barack Obama will be campaigning and raising money inside black churches all day today. Black churches are the only places of worship where a pandering politician can openly campaign without fear of the ACLU or Justice Department interfering. Can you imagine the hail storm of criticism Mitt Romney would take if he showed up at Temple Square in Salt Lake and started to talk politics? Politicking in black churches has been going on for so long now nobody even notices. I don’t know why that is, but it is. The Shrillda Beast will throw on her best Aunt Jemima dress, head scarf and the over the top fake black accent to tell the gathered black congregation how she has fought for civil rights for 35 years. The she’ll leave town for Texas where she’ll lay a wreath at the grave of, according to her anyway, the real civil rights leader, LBJ. No one will ask, what pray tell in those 35 years have YOU accomplished?

The Primaries
It would seem my guy, Fred Thompson, is dead. The only good thing about Fred’s campaign was it knocked Hucksterbee for a loop in SC. The bad thing was it allowed McCainiac to further inflate his ego with a win there. Given Thompson’s own estimate, I suppose he should think about dropping out of the race now. Hucksterbee has claimed that Thompson’s campaign has been nothing more than a foil for the McCainiacs from the start. If Thompson drops out and endorses McCainiac, I suppose there may be some truth to that charge.

Now we have to hope somebody, Giuliani or Romney, can stop McCainiac in FL. FL is a winner take all state so coming close doesn’t count. Reps need to thin the field a bit. A poor showing in FL could drive Hucksterbee out and Thompson, if he’s not out already. If Giuliani wins and goes on to Super Tuesday, he’ll split votes with McCain and Romney will benefit. If McCain wins and drives Giuliani from the race, then it’s Romney and McCain. Who knows?

But Dems are in a mess as well. Blacks aren’t taking kindly to the Clinton’s smear campaign against one of their own. There are huge riffs - black vs. white, black vs. Hispanic, men vs. women - inside the Dem party that supposedly doesn’t notice skin color and/or sex. That is until it’s useful for the Clintons to exploit such differences to get the nomination for the Shrillda Beast.

Then there’s all of this talk about white voters lying pollsters. They tell the pollster that they’ll support the black candidate then get into the booth and vote white. The only thing I’d say about that is, it’s not white voters lying. It’s white Democrat voters lying. And what else would you expect from a party that holds a lying white man like Bill Clinton in such high regard?