The Sunshine Empire

I watched a great deal of the Democratic Presidential debate with TSE’s chief political advisor and it was interesting for a myriad of reasons.  Hillary is the front runner in a way that Howard Dean could have only imagined of in 2004, and she is the sole focus of the Republican candidates, but she seemed to hold her own.  John Edwards is a great man who champions issues that American Idol watching sheep could care less about, but he called out those Senators who voted for this Kyl-Lieberman amendment that basically was a backdoor way to get congressional approval for war with

Iran.  TSE takes the consistent view that

Iran is ruled by a bat-shit insane little Napoleon, but poses little danger to the strongest country the world has ever known.  Most of the fear has to do with pro-Israel lobbyists and macho Republicans.  Without military victories the Republican party is losing confidence by at least 20 percentage points on every issue to Democrats.  But Hillary seemed to handle her frontrunner status fine.  As fine a candidate as John Edwards is, it is increasingly looking like he is only going to garner a cabinet seat in a new Clinton Administration.   

The interesting thing is the rise of Mike Huckabee.  The Governor is coming on strong in

Iowa, as much as that is worth, and presents the best chance for the evangelicals to have their crazy man in the White House.  But when you watch the Democratic debate you really see the difference and the momentum on the Democratic side.  Every Democrat in the debate does not keep coming back to Mitt, or Rudy, or any Republican other than the sitting embarrassment that is George W. Bush.  But the Republican debates seem to portray Hillary as if she has been the President for the last 7 years.  For all of the charges that

Clinton is un-electable, they all seem scared shitless of her.