Today I was speaking with my co-worker and we realized that everybody in our office was supporting a different Republican candidate for President. Each of us represents one vote for each of the five leading candidates. Ironically, the most conservative person in our office is backing Rudy and the most liberal is backing Huckabee but that' s a different post for a different time.
Our office is microcosm of just how wide open the Republican race truly is this year. There is a candidate for every type of Republican but not one who can rally all the factions behind him. If I had to guess right now I would say that Rudy is leading but just barely, Romney is a close second, Huckabee is third but with momentum and McCain is still a possible dark horse candidate if everyone else falters. It' s getting harder and harder to see just how Thompson wins the nomination.
One can only hope that as the field whittles down that our party can unite around one strong candidate regardless of who wins the nomination. But as I listen to the rhetoric it may prove difficult to mend fences. Hopefully, we have Hillary as the opponent and as the driving force to reunite. Unfortunately, she is looking more and more desperate herself and Obama seems to be on his game recently. I have been worried about him from the beginning hoping that the Clinton machine will take him out for us. But her clumsy attacks so far only seem to be driving women voters away from her. She could be in real trouble. I was hoping that she would wait until the general election to implode and show her true colors but she appears to be starting early.
To quote Hillary, we are finally getting down to the fun time.
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Interesting that your office is so broad in who to support.
On the plane yesterday, I read an interesting article in Atlantic Monthly by Andrew Sullivan (does that pass your liberal bias media test?) that gives a really good picture of how Obama has snuck up on Hilary and what his winning could mean for this country. It's a really interesting take, showing how a Guiliani/Clinton race would just rehash the same old rhetoric and culture war that started in the 60s, but that having Obama in a race would shift the discussion and provide more hope and solutions. Certainly made me think...
Like you said the other day...an Obama/Huckabee race would definitely be interesting. You know where my money would be!
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