Well with a winner from Iowa tonight, I thought it best to write my endorsements before I become tainted with election results. I do not like primaries. It’s gut wrenching, horrible and puts people normally one the same side against one another. Words are exchanged and then we are all so supposed to put on a happy face the day after. It’s like asking every customer in a restaurant to agree to one entrée and expecting everyone to jump for jubilee. Add the mystery factor, the simple irritant, of having no clue what’s going to happen for long periods of time and emotions run high. The actual election is fun, nerve wrecking but fun. Choice A, Choice B (and no Choice C you third partiers). Simple, easy, enjoyable.
My support for the Democratic and Republican candidates is as follows.
The Republicans
No surprise here, I have said, I’m supporting the Senator and will continue to do so. Recently I was in a bookstore and saw a McCain 08 calendar. I couldn’t buy it though, I’m mean how depressing to see a candidate not even get the nom. and then go through another 10 months of looking at him. I felt guilty. Was my doubt bad? No, not really if McCain wins the nomination the word comeback will seem too weak. McCain a longtime friend to the pro-life community and consistent supporter of the Iraq War is a candidate any Republican should be happy to support though I can understand other choices. He is also electable, a trait that is becoming increasingly rare among Republicans. If you want to surrender pick a Romney or a Huckabee, but if you want to replace Judge Stevens with another Roberts any Republican would be crazy not to support McCain in the general at the least.
The Democrats
Hillary Clinton
No this is not an I hope she gets it because she will be easier to beat come November endorsement. I sincerely believe that Senator Clinton is the best candidate the Democrats have. She is a smart, talented women and I feel she’d be a wonderful leader for America. While I would support McCain, Rudy, or Thompson in the general against her, she has shown through her bi-partisan work in the Senate and her consistent support for the Iraq War that she will provide the country with another four years of a Clinton presidency minus everything that was hideous about the Clinton presidency mainly the sex, weak foreign policy and Bill Clinton. Many voters across the country are taking another look at Clinton, minus the characture colored glasses and seeing a candidate of substance.
