{"id":1043,"date":"2008-01-03T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T18:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/my-predictions-for-the-primary\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T12:19:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T16:19:17","slug":"my-predictions-for-the-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"My predictions for the primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m no political wonk, and I don’t pretend to be – but I guess some folks are wondering what my thoughts are on the upcoming Iowa caucus – I dunno. Don’t care. The primaries are a big media circus that are more a test of how well candidates can lie to the voters than they are a way to discern a choice. It’s just a way for the networks to squeeze more money out of people.<\/p>\n

If you want numbers, go to Election Projection<\/a>. I just can’t summon up an ounce of “give-a-turd”.<\/p>\n

So basically my only predictions are based on what I know – politics. If Republicans vote for the most Republican candidate, it’d be Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson. If Democrats voted for the most Democrat candidate, it’d be Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards. Given the reality of who’ll get votes, that’d make it a Thompson vs. Edwards match up in the Fall. Thompson wins in a landslide – Democrats couldn’t win an election against a wagon load of crap if they ran on what they truly believe.<\/p>\n

But since Republicans and Democrats are both trying to figure out who the opposition is mostly likely to vote for (instead of who most closely represents the party to which they belong) – when it all shakes out, it’ll be Huckabee vs Obama. Why? Because they’re both idiots and both parties are convinced that the opposite party can’t resist voting for them – and they’re both so close to each other in a lack of experience and incompetent policy, no one can tell the difference between them – so there’s no real choice. It’s a safe race.<\/p>\n

The winner? What difference does it make? It won’t be America.
\nGood Lord I hope I’m wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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