More Presidential Musings

It’s getting even worse for the now-not-quite-predetermined front runner, which is good news for the Democratic Party. Hillary now polls behind every GOP frontrunner, and they didn’t even compare her to Mike Huckabee, who is gaining fast in Iowa. Huckabee may think the world is just 6,000 years old, but don’t discount his likeability and aw-shucks manner that work well in rural states. Plus he definitely has the coolest ad so far.

In more bad news for Clinton, both Obama and Edwards polled far better than her among GOP leaders. Plus her latest endorsement isn’t going to impress many undecideds and independents, let alone Democrats.

You can sense the hostility building between Obama and Clinton as the debates go on, the race tightens and the primaries edge closer. My personal feeling is that Romney and Clinton are very much alike. Both will shift their positions to whichever way the polls tell them. Both have no trouble changing their ideologies and flip-flopping their viewpoints in a flash if they think it will get them elected. And both have a respectable chance of being their parties’ nominees. Good grief.

So far, I’ve actually been most impressed with people like Ron Paul, John McCain and Barack Obama, all of whom have stuck to their ideological guns and are appealing to the voters with new ideas for what promises to be an increasingly dangerous world and very challenging times for America. Not all of their solutions are correct, but none of them will sink to the levels of a Hillary Clinton or Mitt Romney to win. Can you picture Ron Paul planting questions at a press conference like Clinton’s team did?

One last thing: Should Clinton win the election, two families will have run our country for 24 years. This is a democracy, not a monarchy or even Dynasty. It should be stopped.