Day: January 23, 2014

There was a time when John McCain was battling George W. Bush for the GOP nomination when I thought he would make a decent President of the United States. I may have given him my email address back then because prior to Bush I thought it was possible for a Republican to have the best interest of the country at heart. What was what, thirteen years ago? Anyway I'm still on John McCain's mailing list. I don't get why I am on that list, and I don't get why he still has an organization called "Friends of John McCain" sending me fundraising appeals. What I really don't get is why anybody would read this and think, "Where is my credit card? John McCain needs money."

3. Kent Marshy to the east, farmy to the west with a strip of fast food places and check cashing shops running down the middle. Sure it has the Firefly festival now, but that's just NASCAR for hipsters. Swap the Bud Light for Dog Fish head and there you are. 2. Sussex Since none of Delaware's counties contain a mountain rage, you simple can't beat the Atlantic Ocean as a marquee feature. The backwards losers are losing the race against modernity in this county. The problem, of course, is what modernity will reign? The crappy Green Turtles of the world or the scrappy El Dorados? 1. New Castle Delaware's best county by far (not that they had much competition). Great public schools, access to transportation, decent parks and amenities. Look at our streams creeks and bays, just don't touch them, or eat more than 2 oz. of fish a year, and Bob's your uncle.

The media needs a mainstream Republican to talk about. They need to pretend that the two parties are roughly equivalent in common sense and rationality. Therefor it is a fairly safe bet that a lunatic like Rand Paul or Scot Walker isn't going to get the dubious award of "front runner by media acclimation." Who will it be then?

I always hate it when the self righteous beltway pundit and the uninformed morally superior Independent voter lament how horrible partisan politics and why can't both parties forget about their legion of irreconcilable policy differences and govern nicely. As if partisan politics and polarization and political nastiness was a new invention. Partisan politics and political fights are as old, if not older, than the Republic....