How the democrats lost in S.C. tonight (without even having an election)

While the country may have just dodged an enormous bullet tonight by not having Mike Huckabee win in S.C., the democrats may look back at tonight’s republican primary in 6 months and conclude that this is exactly when their fate was sealed.

It would have been far far better for Hillary and the gang (and further evidence that S.C. really deserves its coveted spot at the bottom of the national education rankings) if the wing nuts had turned out for Mike Huckabee instead of splitting their vote toward Huck and Thompson. Huckabee was counting on S.C. and, with tonight’s loss, the writing is pretty much on the wall for him and his television ministry.

Instead, the GOP looks like it’s going to go with the smart money and pick the guy who’s most likely to pants anyone the democrats choose to throw out in November, John McCain. The fact that Huckabee couldn’t win in the biblest of the bible belt states squished with the fact that Romney has only won 1 real contested primary, layered on top of the fact that Rudy Guiliani’s let’s-let-all-the-other-candidates-get-all-the-money-and-press-and-delegates-before-we-even-start-

trying strategy shows that he’s just too stoopid to be president all points to the party eventually (probably very soon if McCain wins Florida) will line up behind John “the Hillary killer” McCain.

Does anyone seriously think that Hillary Clinton is going to beat John McCain in a general election in this country? Perhaps if Connecticut were to secede, start its own republic and then have McCain and Hillary run for supreme leader . . . maybe.

It’s time to take the red pill Mr. Edwards

Lord knows I am an Edwards fan. His southern boot-straps biography and his ability to give a voice to the seemingly continuous screwing over that a lot of decent people get just because they have to live on the margins are both reasons why he is a great candidate. But, the writing is on the 30-foot wall of flaming letters and it is time for him to go.

Sure, he may end up being viable in Nevada’s caucuses (as goofy and as litigious as they are shaping up to be) but he probably won’t win outright and, even if he does, he won’t win South Carolina, otherwise known as the state next door to his own. And with that, out of money and with the party leadership probably pressuring him to get out, I predict that John Edwards will say good bye.

What will be interesting is where the Edwards voters go and where, if anywhere, he tells them to go. I personally hope that he will enthusiastically endorse Barack Obama. The idea of a white southern politician who grew up in the segregated south endorsing a black man for president has definite appeal and would reflect well on how far we have come as a country.

Although, realistically Edwards will probably hold off on endorsing anyone to ensure himself some political capital with the eventual nominee.

Finally, I doubt that either Hillary or Obama will consider Edwards as a viable V.P. candidate due to him not being able to deliver a single southern state for John Kerry and his less-than-impressive debate performance against Dick Cheney in 2004. However, after 8 years of corrupt and inept leadership at the Justice Department, “Attorney General John Edwards” has a very nice ring to it.