Go, Hillary, Go!

So I came *really* close to voting for Dr. Ron Paul tonight, but flinched at the last minute and went for McCain on the off chance that it might count for something to whittle down Romney's lead in Mass. In hindsight I also feel that it was a symbolic apology for the mistake I made eight years ago.

I had some fears then that Bush was a lightweight way out of his element but he was the only candidate seriously talking about replacing/supplementing Social Security with private investment accounts, which is one issue that will pretty much get me to put kneepads on for a candidate. Thirty years from now people will look back scornfully on a perfectly good missed opportunity to address the problem when time was still abundant. Still, part of being President is getting congress to go along with your brilliant plans. It's like a salesman complaining that he'd make quota if only the engineers could produce a better product.

But I digress. The far more important thing is the train wreck taking shape on the (D) side of the ticket. A lot of the news you are/will read[ing] about Super Tuesday is a non-story. The Democrats largely ditched winner-take-all primaries after 1968, so when Obama wins 50% of Mass. to HRC's 48%, he may end up with a few more delegates, but that's all. If 2000 was the year of the Dangling Chad, the summer of '08 is going to introduce everyone to Superdelegates, who are basically at-large bon vivants who can throw their support behind whomever they please. A brokered convention is the political geeks' version of the Subway Series. Nightly news and papers will suddenly swell with Visio charts and Powerpoint graphics illustrating how everything can suddenly happen, or not.

And Hillary will win. Before, that is, she loses.  ¶ 5:23 PM