Come together

I think the thing that most concerns me about the election thus far is the 28 percent of Clinton backers who say they’d vote for McCain if Obama gets the nomination. (Not to be outdone, 19 percent of Obama backers say they would vote for McCain if Clinton won the nomination.) After eight years of complaining about Bush, we have two candidates who essentially hold the same positions on most of the big issues (abortion, climate change, the economy, health care, immigration and Iraq) versus one who could generally called Bush light, and we’re completely ignoring the big picture in favor of petty favoritism. Yeah. I like one candidate significantly more than the other, but I’m more concerned that the right-wing religious crazies leave the Capitol than whether or not my guy gets in.

This is the Dems race to lose, people, and yet it looks like the Democratic party might once again shoot itself in the foot. I don’t mean to be hyperbolic, but can this country survive another four years of Bush’s policies?