2008: Politics As Usual

Reading Sullivan's Queen Hillary, Empress of Mesopotamia, casting Hillary as just more of the same, and thinking about the inability of an individual Republican candidate to really catch fire, I'm left with the thought that Americans really do want change, or at least, something different in our political leadership, but none of the allegedly new offerings have come close to making that sale.

If that continues, whoever backs into the White House in 2008 may be more akin to President None of the Above than any previous occupant.

Comments

[daveinboca]

Brooks will get double the traffic the two airheads Krugboy & Herbie put together.

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote Brooks' column two years ago in a splendid New Yorker piece on Midwestern Dems & how out of touch the twin Left Coasts are with mainstream Dems in the "flyover" states.

The demented rants of freepers and Kossacks & Huff/Puffs belie the silent mega-majority in the middle. As Goldberg said in his NYer article, a Pew survey then said 21% of Americans classify themselves as liberals, 34% conservatives, and the rest are the 45% who actually make the decision, in the end, who gets into the WH.

Hillary dances with the left or at least flirts, but bedtime is with the Midwest where she hails from---the territory that swings.

[seekeronos]

I think Fred! has a fairly good chance of appealing to the Moderate Majority totake a few steps to the right, if he can shake a leg.