So the primaries are becoming interesting not because of the believability of any of the candidates, or their likelihood of implementing political reform or change -- but because it is starting to look like some kind of chess match.
The questions are most significantly in the Republican chess match. Huckabee having motivated the bigots in Iowa to turn their back on Romney which the pundits are saying may help.... not Huckabee but Giuliani in the endgame. Then there is the wild card, Ron Paul, in New Hampshire. Will Ron Paul sap off enough conservative libertarian independents to act as a spoiler for McCain who may benefit from Romney and Huckabee being religiously uncivil and probably distasteful to the less bigoted New Hampshirites?
These are the question that are moving the talking heads back and forth across the chessboard seeking answers to those perplexing political questions of whether one egomaniac politician is better than another. And then there is Fred Thompson out there joking about trophy wives in counterpoint to Huckabee delving into the cosmological question of whether Satan is related to Christ?
Such imponderables...and then there is the question of whether we should allow Steve Colbert in as a write in candidate in Republican Primaries. Meanwhile what is the impact of a liberal newspaper endorsing a conservative wannabe? or a conservative Democrat mostly kicked out of his own party endorsing a Republican?
And whatever happened to those old fun days when the Republicans stood tall for "family values" and then used public interest groups to stab their opponents in the back and smear their reputations -- I mean doesn't anyone play Bush any more?
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Why would anyone want to play him????????