Let us hope it's a blip

[fpb]

Do I need to say that I regard last night's Iowa primary as an unmitigated disaster? On both sides, the worst candidate prevailed. What I have to say about Mike Huckabee I have already said; here I can add that a party who votes in the shallow and lazy Fred Thompson in third place is not worth electing. As for the Democrats, they have also voted for the shallowest and least competent candidate - a junior senator with no record and precious little by way of program. Whatever one may think of Edwards, he stands for certain definite things - the defence of the harassed middle class and the poor, in particular - and has taken clear and definite positions on a number of issues. And Hillary Clinton, however dislikeable she may be, has more experience than any other candidate. On both sides, people have voted for shallow personalities and poor records over competence and character. God help America if this is more than a blip.

Comments

Relax - it's the vote of a bunch of people in IOWA

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

At no other time does anyone pay any attention to that giant sink-hole of intelligence. It might as well be the vote of the people in Nebraska - all three hundred of them. The folks who win are the pretty, non-threatening ones. New Hampshire will vote for McCain. (Who knows who gets the Granite State Democrats - all 300 of them. Who cares?) The only primaries which count are the ones in the big electoral vote states - Florida, New York, California. Everything else is posturing. This year I'm voting for the smartest one. Character counts, but going to war by mistake has scared me off idiots of good character advised by smart friends with no moral fibre.

Re: Relax - it's the vote of a bunch of people in IOWA

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Rather elitist, aren't you?

Re: Relax - it's the vote of a bunch of people in IOWA

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

It's what holds my fantasy world together. We all need our very own Special Happy Places. Mine is between my ears, where the flowers bloom, the sun shines eternally, and all the people are smart and happy and safe. Where's your's?

Re: Relax - it's the vote of a bunch of people in IOWA

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Pax, children. I don't want two of my favourite online friends calling each other names. I do not think that it is elitist to ask for brains and character in a presidential candidate, and I have not been impressed by the calibre of the favourites, especially on the Republican side. Let us all hope that I am wrong.

Re: Relax - I didn't sense any friction

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

I would never dream of calling dustthouart names. I was accurately identified. (I generally use the word 'snob.') dustthouart's world is filled with lovely people (among them the "Hogwarts Elite," for example). They also live in mine. Some of them may even live in Iowa. Or New Hampshire. (But they'll still be ignored after Primary Season, when all the candidates sprint back to the Political Center.)