Carrie Bartkowiak v. 5.0

There’s a reason that folks who don’t like the GOP call it “the rich old white man” party.
Take a look at the current 10 leading Republican candidates.
I’m just sayin’.

Last night these 10 got together in the Ronald Reagan Library to have a debate hosted by Chris Matthews. Nancy Reagan was present, and she looked lost. It was heartbreaking to see that first shot of her. Arnold Schwarzenegger (I hope I spelled that right) sat by her side.

You can watch the 90-minute debate online at MSNBC, but I don’t think it’s worth getting into until Fred Thompson jumps into the fray. It’ll be business as usual until he gets in there; I’m looking forward to him really shaking things up. He should make it fun.

On the other side of the aisle, Senator Barack Obama has been assigned a Secret Service detail. He is the first candidate to get a detail this early in the race - normally candidates don’t receive a detail until after their party’s nomination, about 8 months before the election. Hillary Clinton already has one due to being the former First Lady, but watch for the other Democratic hopefuls to start crying “unfair” and demanding details of their own very shortly.

On the Libertarian front, it’s still a mess. Fox News seems to think former Republican Bob Barr could be a formidable Libertarian candidate. Over half of the U.S. states now have a ballot option for Libertarians, and the party is working hard on completing the list before the primaries.

While it’s interesting to see how desperate the two major parties are to get a jump on each other and start campaigning two years before the actual election, I wonder if there will come a time when we’re so overloaded and utterly sick of campaigning, that we’ll revert to the campaigns of old- when candidates only had 3 months or so to campaign before the election. Wouldn’t that be nice?

No years of infuriating commercials on all forms of media. No time for the candidates to rip each other apart and muck around in long “negative campaigns”. Just a short, fast “Here’s what I have to say, what I plan to do, and how I plan to do it” campaign.

I’m all for that.

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