The primaries just got a lot more interesting tonight. First, the news that’s no surprise to anyone: Mr. Burns beat Waylon Smithers to clinch the Republican nomination. Smithers is expected to continue his toadying, but in a more official role.
The Democratic side is there the action is, though. Most of the MSM had been ready to count Hillary Clinton out, but then they realized if she did get knocked out, there’d be no political fights for them to pick until sometime in the summer. So they did the unthinkable and turned their attention, finally, on the Anointed One. It looks like this attention has caused him to wobble quite a bit. He’s lost Ohio and its juicy passel of delegates and he may well lose Texas, too (He’s behind as of midnight, Eastern, but hit Michelle’s link for updates). That would leave him with Vermont, where a small and exceedingly idiotic town has voted to tear up the US Constitution and impeach the President and Vice President all by their lonesomes.
Obama’s campaign seems to be doing some serious flailing right now. The Obamessiah’s Chief Pharisee crashed a Clinton conference call to yell, “Bababooey! Bababooey! Howard Stern Rules!” before hanging up and giggling to his friends who were crowded around the phone. The Clinton campaign called the conference call because, apparently, they just noticed that Democrats will cheat their brains out to win an election.
It ought to be real fun to watch Clinton and Obama tear into each other over the next couple of months. Maybe we’ll get to see someethign in the way of policy from either one of them. I’m not betting on it, but it’s entirely possible. In the meantime, we’ll get to watch politics the way it was meant to be in America, which is more than fine by me. This bipartisan, “bring both sides together”, “let’s all hug ’round the Unity Tree” stuff is not what the Founders intended. It’s time we brought some conflict back to our adversarial system of government.
(several links via memeorandum)
UPDATE: According to Michelle Malkin’s last update and Jim Geraghty, the major networks are calling Texas for Clinton.
There is one interesting thing I heard on C-SPAN not long before 11 PM. I can’t find a link to it, so you’ll have to trust that I heard correctly. That network’s “campaign room ” guy said that late-deciding voters broke hugely in both Texas and Ohio for Hillary Clinton. I think that’s important to remember as the primary rumble continues. Barak Obama may well be the glittery shiny candidate with Clinton being the one who sways the thoughtful voters who don’t mind taking their time to make up their minds.
