The Presidential Race continues to naseate
Chuck Hagel made a press conference announcement yesterday about his plans for the presidential race, which were that he plans on holding another press conference later this year to announce whether his plans on whether or not he will run for the White House. There is something ludicrous in this whole process. Chuck Hagel has gone from my estimation as my favourite Republican to one of the most duplicitious and self-serving of a historically duplicitious and self-serving body. His votes never seem to follow his actions of his role as “one of the more forceful Republican voices in opposition to the Iraq war”. The effect is fairly depressing. My oft-mentioning of Thom Hartmann’s conspiracy theory that Hagel is being primed as a Republican to come out of nowhere and, basically a media-creation, seize a “Center” to pick up the presidency start to have a creepy bit of merit, even as it seems impossible to imagine him winning the Republican nomination. A bit ago I saw a reference to Hagel as “The Democrats’ vice presidential dream candidate”, which was more than a little naseating — even as I goad myself to a naseating selection of Hillary Clinton from the Democratic brass.
Meanwhile, for no particular reason, Newt Gingrich has surfaced up as a contender for the throne. Maybe this is a year of Democratic — Republican collusion which the Republicans opt to sit out and have Newt Gingrich run? I begin to suspect, or rather reserect previous suspicions, that they are all like that, and grab the Walter Karp book Indispensable Enemies, as cynical an analysis of American political history as you will ever see.
Understand something about Gingrich and Clinton. I heard some clips of Dick Morris saying that the questions regarding Gingrich’s infidelities may have come from the Clintons’ Secret Police. I have to pause and stop myself from encouraging Clinton just to spite and mock the Dick Morrises of the world.