Warner and all that.
Perhaps you heard the exciting news that Bill Frist placed first in an informal poll of 2008 presidential hopefuls at a Republican conference Saturday night in Tennessee. Wow. This does wonders to his campaign. The way I see it, Bill Frist is now in fourth place in the Republican Nomination process for their Republican Nominee two years hence… behind George Allen… behind John McCain… behind Mitt Romney.
The latest New York Times Magazine has a cover story on who would be right now the Second Place in the Democratic Party’s Nominating Process, two years out… and Boy Oh Boy I can see that the nation is gripped by this nominating process!!
Okay, so I read through about a third of the piece on Virginia Governor Mark Warner, before stopping myself because of its lack of any information I care to know. He seems to have some assets (and keep in mind, I’m not ever going to vote for or otherwise more nebulously “Support” someone based on how I perceive everyone else might vote), and some detractions. But I stopped myself when the article ran down the list of why every other Democratic nominee can’t win… (after I pondered the description of Al Sharpton as a prototype “African American protest candidate”, making me wonder if it’s possible to have an African American candidate that is not the “African American protest candidate” — are we waiting for Barack Obama to fill that void?)
and that the populist Russ Feingold has currency mostly as a protest candidate.
Sigh. Am I doomed to root for the candidate the Establishment deems the “protest candidate” of the lot… in perpetuity? What makes Feingold merely and impossibly nothing but a “Protest Candidate”?
He’s in the news today for calling for the Censure of President Bush for his illegal and unconstitutional wire-tapping. Political, ain’t it? This week, we watched a con take place where the Congress decided to back-track and sanction what was a usurption of powers by the President. That was a con-act. And to say it was apparently is to “protest”, and thus marginilize yourself to that… as you wait for the real actors to jump onto the stage..