Weep for the Future

How frightening is it that, among the top Democrats seeking the nomination, Hillary Clinton is the most reasonable and qualified?

Hillary. Clinton.

Barak Obama seems like a nice guy... likable, charismatic, not scarily partisan or dogmatic. The problem is, unfortunately, that there's really no reason at all why he should be President of the United States. He's unerringly liberal, has shown that he has little clue about the rough details of foreign policy or the tough choices that all Presidents must make.

Of all the top-tier nazghul, John Edwards is the most frightening. A foppish former trial lawyer who has mastered the art of political pandering in a way that John Kerry could only dream of, Edwards promises all things to all people with nary a thought of how to pay for them. That, of course, he can figure out once he's sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office. He's the kind of person who should be kept as far from power as is possible. In a sane universe, John Edwards would be selling used cars in Raleigh Durham.

Hillary Clinton is the most hawkish, the most realistic of the Dems, which is like saying that Police Academy II was the best of the Police Academy movies... perhaps, but they ALL suck. This is, of course, the woman whose proposal for solving the "health care crisis" in 1993 was to nationalize 15% of the American GDP and create a Canadian-style system. She has been pounding the issue since she announced her candidacy roughly 27 years ago, so I have little hope she's learned her lesson. At least she's willing to acknowledge that there's a little problem with Islamic terrorists that can't be solved by making nice.

I don't think I've seen a more pathetic group of Democrats running for President since 2004. I mean, time and time again you Dems force me to vote Republican simply to keep your latest pandering socialist out of office. Are there ANY John F. Kennedys or Harry Trumans left in your party, or have the Kos lunatics completely taken over? You hate the fact that people like George W. Bush win office? Give me an alternative. How about nominating someone who isn't going to create more bloated government programs, who isn't going to neglect the defense of the country, who isn't in the pocket of the far-left psychopaths who seem to be running your party.

Is that too much to ask? Don't bother to answer, I already know what you're going to tell me.