Super Mega Ultra Tuesday

[davidn]

According to Google yesterday, I was the eleventh person in the world to use the term "super mega ultra Tuesday", but by the time I got to putting this up I'd dropped to 46th place. However, if it had been "super ultra mega Tuesday" instead that would have been even more painfully unoriginal, with 207 results as I write this. Anyway.

Super (and possibly both Mega and Ultra) Tuesday was yesterday, the day when most of the American states submit their votes for who they want to represent the two political sides in the upcoming Presidential election. The race that everyone is really interested in is between Obama and Clinton, and neither of them have come out ahead - Obama seems to be favoured by more states overall but Hillary is getting the more important ones (it's the delegates that actually count and each state has a different way of calculating how to use those depending on how everyone else votes). It seems that many people think that nominating Hillary would be putting Bill back in the White House, but you have to admit he did a decent job of it a decade ago (as long as he's kept locked up or supervised at all times).

On the Republican side, John McCain is coming out well ahead with about three times as many delegates as either of his competitors. The rest of the people I live with in Massachusetts went for Mormon nutter Mitt Romney, partially because he was our governor until recently but primarily because they're idiots. Apparently he thinks he's "going all the way to the White House", which would be a bit of a sorry outlook for the rest of us, but he's not really in with a chance now, so that's all right. The trouble with Conservatism is that it tends to drive people mad - it even made one man have an affair with Edwina Currie, so clearly has devastating effects on the mind.

Having said that, at this point I honestly wouldn't mind McCain as president, because he seems too old and out of touch to be able to do any real damage, or at least, not on the same scale as the last one. But the trouble with whoever gets nominated into the White House this time, no matter whether it's the first black/woman/zombie president, history is primarily going to remember them as "not Bush". And while that's a good achievement in itself, it's not really something to be remembered for.

Comments

[kjorteo]

What bothers me about pretty much all the Republican candidates is that they're not "not Bush." It's like they made a lovely pie chart with all the factors of the Bush administration, broke it up, and gave each of the new candidates an individual chunk to supercharge and take to the next level. McCain is billing himself as the "national security" candidate, which basically means "Hey kids, do you like the current policy of invading Iraq and pissing off pretty much everyone else, but sometimes think it just isn't enough? Go World War III Xtreme with John McCain!!" Presumably, Romney appeals to people who want even more corporate tax cuts and such and Huckabee to those who think the main problem with Bush is that he just didn't hate the gays and non-Christians and scientists enough.