No-Brainer ’08: America Embraces The Obvious

A while back Mitt “Well At Least I’m Not An Atheist” Romney, the crackpot torturer who thinks the First Amendment is more of a guideline than an actual rule, woke up and smelt the coffee (this is statistically likely as he would have been in America and therefore no less than 50 yards from a Starbucks). He realised that he had no chance of becoming President and withdrew from the race to give his support to someone else, this being the only possible way he could influence the result. In which direction his support would influence the result is a matter of debate.

I heard today, in an article about Obama suggesting Clinton follow suit (which presumably means his campaign considers Clinton is either doomed or suggestible), that Mike “But If We Change The Constitution, Then We Can Make All Kinds Of Crazy Laws” Huckabee refuses to withdraw. Which is fair enough and all, but “it is mathematically impossible for him to catch up to John McCain’s lead”. This makes sense. We already knew he don’t think too good. So that can only be good news. McCain is more than slightly screwy, but has to be the best of the Republicans on offer.

So it’s looking like Obama versus McCain. That’s probably the best result we could have hoped for (although in one respect it would have been better had Romney won the Republican nomination, because he’d have been a lot easier for the Democrats to beat in the election).

And now we have to wait for about a year for the election, because of America’s habit of making primaries more and more ridiculously early every time. Within our lifetimes, they’ll be held before the previous election.