Sodden thought* for today

Tom Friedman got me thinking:

The Bushies are not going to run the risk of having all their hard-won destruction overturned by a more compassionate administration after 2008, let alone allow for the possibility that they and their rich friends might stand to lose their perks, or that Radical Christianity's march might be slowed.

Given what we know about them, what ARE the chances that Dick Cheney or Jeb Bush would get the Republican nomination after all, despite their "protests" to the contrary? You know doggone well that there's no way Frist will get the nod, now that his namby-pambyness has been shown. With the Republicans' unexcelled lying, hiding and spinning and our electorate's apparently willingness to put aside reason, either one just might be able to get elected.

McCain would seem to be the strongest candidate at this point, but I'll bet that the Powers That Be suspect, as do I, that once elected he would start repairing almost as quickly as a Democrat. So he may be doomed.

Of course, the outcome to be desired is that the Democrats run a decent and believable candidate (will it be Biden? have we learned anything from the Gore and Kerry misadventures?) who will win and that at least one house of Congress will change leadership.

But we had better be prepared, for the Blindsider is out there somewhere.


*Thanks, Herb Caen. . .