A long time ago, when I lived 40hrs per week or more in a cubical, an older coworker once admonished me with these words: “Cary, you need to be right in the middle.. You don’t want to be too far left or too far right.. both are equally screwed up.” I’ve come to believe that this is right on.

It can be tough to find political candidates of like mind. True moderates are hard to come by — there are many extremists in mainstream politics. And human nature seems to always play a role no matter what idealistic notion a political party is supposed to represent. Take the Republican party as of late. Their lot seems to be dishonesty, greed and hypocrisy. For years Republicans have used the ‘tax and spend’ mantra to describe Democrats, but as of late they have no problem sinking the people of this country into inconceivable debt as they sell our dollars off cheaply to China to fund war (dishonest war). In the process, large war contractors benefit but no one else. Who pays ultimately? Should be obvious. Not Bush. Long after the Bushies, Cheneys, and Rumsfelds of the world are kicking back in cushy retirement from the hell that they’ve created, we’ll pay. Dearly. Not to mention the lives that these ignorant men have wasted to no good end.

That said, on the other side of the isle you have another problem. I once heard someone say that if you put 10 Democrats into a room and ask any question, you’ll get 15 opinions. And I have to suggest that this is the Dems biggest problem. Democrats can’t seem to agree on anything. They’re their own worst enemy. Take this Democratic presidential primary. What is the end game for the Clinton camp, and the Dem voters who, through their oblivious voting choices, keep this thing going? If candidate Clinton somehow manages to pry the nomination from Obama’s cold, dead fingers, I can’t imagine what the Democratic convention will look like. The move will almost surely be perceived by 50% of the electorate as if she stole it, and they’ll just go bonkers.

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.”

If she doesn’t win, and she protracts this battle so that Obama has little general election campaign time, McCain looking presidential the whole time, and damages Obama in the process, then if he loses the general election for *whatever* reason, even if he would have lost *anyway*, who do you think is going to be blamed? No matter what, the Clintons will be blamed. That aside, though the upside to the latter scenario is that egocentric Clinton will become the new Nader, the sad part is that in the final analysis the Dems will have still lost.