Where's the Beef!?

This question occurred to me today as I listened to a snippet of campaign speechifying from Mike Huckabee today. My wife happened to be listening to it as well, and at the end she said, well, that was a War is Hell speech. What's that dear, I replied. You know, she said, when a politician gives a speech that says things that everybody can agree on like ooh the middle class is hurting and gee we can't have insurance companies telling doctors what to do and gosh we have to push an entrepreneurial way of life and goodness we need lower taxes. Yeah, War is Hell.

... and does that mean you are stopping the war? nnnooooo, It means I am running for president and I have to get you to see me as one of the boys. Right. It was a War is Hell speech.

Actually it was not a speech at all. There were no specifics at all about what he would plan to do about any of the things that he identified as problems. It was however, a pretty good Sermon. So if he has problems getting elected, at least he can go back to his Sunday job.

To be fair, he's not the only one guilty of this. He does seem to be the worst offender, but it is true that Obama does use the words Hope and Change quite a bit.

I was hearing a bit on NPR today about a meeting of centrist politicians that is planned, to be led by David Boren and Christie Todd Whitman. Well, that's nice, but neither of them is  running for President and would not have a chance if they did. Bloomberg might run actually, but then I am concerned about that concept. What if he gets 10 or 15% of the vote, not enough to stand a chance of getting elected but just enough to hand it to Romney or Huckabee? Both of whom I detest, sorry if you love either one of them.

I tend to worry too much about elections. It always works out for the best, and we always elect the best candidate. Right?