I would just like to point out...

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Right, right...had to google his name.

Nothing has changed for Newt since he started annoying us all with talks of entering the race as a lesson to all the not-crazy-enoughs who wanted to run. Newt got taken off the hook, and now Fred! is around to annoy us with his "thinking about it" campaign.

A Democrat is going to win the White House. If Republicans want to project something on to Thompson that isn't there, well it will only be easier for the Democrats. Ditto for Newt. Here's yet another guy who loves to tell people how they shouldn't listen to government (just the guy who was speaker for one of the branches), yet can't live up to the standards he blathers on about. VP candidates do very little, so Newt can knock himself out and be the #2 on a losing ticket all he wants.

I understand your reservations about the "progressives," but the GOP isn't offering anything better than Hillary or Barack.

[Preechr]

I'm gonna go on the record right now with America is still not ready for anything other than a white guy as President. I mean, people are having fits about Romney's Mormonism, for fuck's sake! It ain't happening. Sure, she'll probably win the nomination, and I don't see it being too far fetched to see Obama on the ticket as VP, but they won't win.

Now, think on this one: What if Obama BEATS Hillary? Would she join his ticket? ...or would she sink his campaign altogether? The Clintons have always divided your party... maybe she might split off altogether. Ever stop to consider that Bloomberg may toss his "independent" campaign to her if that's the case? Democrat voters have become an awfully cagey lot since 2000. I just don't see her as the shoe in she used to be. Kerry proved what entering the race with an already prepared, well-oiled attack machine set against you can do, and she has that in spades. She knows it too...

She has built so many walls against any real questions being asked of her, but that won't last forever. Kos and the internet brigades will want to know she can survive an election before they actually throw their weight behind her in the primaries, and Obama is just cleaner than she is. I think the far-left fringe is still too small and newly organized to do anything other than show a united front in 08, but I'm not so sure they'll unite for her. I also think the weight they do carry is so hip right now the traditional media will follow whatever lead they take without reservation, even if that means throwing Hillary under the bus.

Regardless, neither will be the next President... not of this country anyways.