New Hampshire and Iowa should just get the picture

I commented earlier, but the absurdity of the oneupmanship in the presidential primary me-first game is reaching new levels. Michigan is set to move it’s primary to January 15th, causing the state’s of New Hampshire and Iowa to move practically to September in an effort to preserve the only thing that makes their state’s relevant beyond their current totally irrelevancy. I have two thoughts on this situation. The first is that the entire Nation is saying to these two states that are damn near back water counties that the next leader of the free world needs to be vetted by someone other than a stalk of corn and an 87 year old laid off factory worker drinking coffee in the middle of the day in Manchester. At least New Hampshire votes and does not use some kind of arcane skull and bones type initiation ceremony like Iowa to come to a decision. John Edwards wins, but somebody got their balls branded while jerking off in a coffin. These two states are willing to drive the beginning of the 2008 Presidential election into 2007 just to preserve their insipid little forty year old tradition.

The other real consequence of this stupid little childish game is that we may slip back into parties hand selecting candidates for the nomination. Instead of enjoying the free flow and exchange of ideas that a healthy democracy should enjoy, our choice of a leader will be no more egalitarian than a WWE match-up between The Rock and Goldberg. The two parties have regulations as to when primaries can occur for delegate election to the week long commercials that are the nominating conventions. What seem like idle threats to not recognize state delegations, could change as state legislatures continue to thumb their nose at the party rules. Things are moving in bizarre directions this Presidential season, and it could mean for the chance of even the primary delegates not being able to come to a choice on the first or second or third ballots. Americans distracted by shiny objects don’t realize that if a convention becomes deadlocked, they can start to consider choices that had not even been part of the dog and pony show that we’re experiencing now. A slimmed down Al Gore could emerge if the Clinton and Obama delegates are locked in battle. Dick Cheney could arise from the dead and seem palatable compared to the cluster-fuck of RINO’s that are on the debate stages now.

If I detach myself from the fact that my dear country seems to be making a slow burning decent into oblivion, the political theater is breathtaking. Politics is my soap opera and the good parts are yet to come.

Iowa is breathtaking for it’s weather.

This guy agrees with me. Why Iowa Sucks

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