Poor Mitt Romney. If ever there were an empty $4,000.00 suit, it was he. As a campaigner, he never quite connected with the electorate because he never really learned the art of talking TO people rather than talking AT people.

He was and is a blowhard; his bloviation, peroration, blather and bushwah were as one-dimensional as he. For purely entartainment value, I am sad to see him go. Obviously, the mouth-frothers at C-PAC are wearing sack-cloth and ashes today because of his departure. He was, at least, a semi-demi Conservative in the mold of Rudy Giuliani. (Speaking of moldy!)

Then, there is Mike Huckabee...he of the wandering oculus...who is as unctious as they come. He gives a bad name to snake-oil salesmen. He, on the other hand, IS a true-believer in the NeoCon cause. He simply wraps his vitriol in the soft-glove of Jesus-speak. Dubya may claim to speak to God; Huckabee claims that God speaks to him and through him. Yikes!

Which leaves John McCain. The man who recently admitted he knows little about economics, the man who graduated 894th out of a class of 899 (look it up) and smiles with a forced grin. Here is a man whose moral rudder is moved by expediency and not conviction. This is the man who was slimed by George W. Bush's machine in South Carolina in 2000 and yet came to grovel at Dubya's little webbed feet. Sickening.

So...what's a Conservative to do? Win at all costs by swallowing twice and supporting McCain? Or, keeping their core principles alive by supporting Mike Huckabee...a man who most likely cannot win?

I'm betting on expediency over principle. After all, these are Republicans we're talking about here.

So. Your guy won a few caucuses/primaries today. Congrats. However, don't break your arms patting yourselves on your collective backs. And, stop with the Hillary-hating already.

Do you really want to piss off the approximately 50% of Democratic voters who have NOT voted for Obama? You so sure you can win the race without the enthusiasm and support of the Clinton and Edwards supporters you keep dissin'? I thought that the "politics of destruction is over" crap that your candidate has been shoveling actually meant something? Obviously not; it appears to just be more of the same old same old.

Can Obama win this thing in November without the enthusiastic support of half the Democrats...those who aren't currently supporting him? The smug and nasty arrogance of you, the Obama supporters, is starting to wear really thin with me and, judging by many of the responses to you here and elsewhere, I'm not the only one. I'd even re-consider my Democratic financial support, my professional support and even my vote for President if the Obama supporters keep being this nasty.

Actually, John McCain is starting to look pretty good to me lately...that is since all the Rabid Right is saying he's really a closet liberal. That would be acceptable. Besides...he's "old-school and yesterday"...about which you Obama supporters love to make fun.

Hmmm, John McCain. Well, at least he's a known quantity...and only about half as nasty as Obama's supporters.

President Harry Truman...a distant cousin of mine...was asked once why he gave people hell. He replied dryly that he simply told the truth. It was they that thought it was hell.

Hell for you, Peeps, is for someone actually to have the temerity to have a contrarian position or opinion to yours.

Poor baby: here's two cents for you to pay Charon as he ferries you across the River Styx to Hades.

I really don't "like" Barack Obama nor many/most of his most vocal supporters. Period.

I don't like Barack Obama's elision of basic facts about his votes in the Illinois statehouse or the US Senate. On several key votes/issues, he makes blatant claims that are not supported by the facts.

I don't care for his "style"...a transmogrification of "down home...one of y'all" to "Harvard yuppie". Please, Barack, pick a constituency/persona and stick with it!

Mostly, though, he seems so darned negative on the stump. His speeches are replete with veiled negative references to Hillary Clinton which are dismissive of her years of experience and service to America. I don't see a message of hope, I see a message of "it's my turn, Hillary, get out of the way!". That kind of snideness turns me...and others...off.

Just a quick scan of the pro-Obama letter-writers here shows a deep reservoir of nastiness that borders on abject hate toward Senator Clinton. You're not going to endear those of us who support Hillary to your side, cause...or, vote. Think you can win the election withOUT those who voted for Senator Clinton or John Edwards joining you enthusiastically? Think again.

Now, I'll just sit back and watch the foul and fetid responses pour in from the Obama supporters...who will prove my point completely. Thanks in advance.

I'll count your snideness as Letter #1. Thanks for so quickly proving my point. >>smirk<<