[Enterprise]

"Hillary Clinton is the girl everyone agrees is brilliant."

That earns a well deserved barf!

[ProudFossil]

I have started using the following gambit when my liberal friends ask me who I am supporting in this election cycle. Bear in mind they have known I am a die hard Republican for the last 25 years.

I say I am supporting Hillary. After the guffaws and gasps they always ask what has happened? Why am I not blasting her and going for one of those (*** substitute the appropriate nasty comment ***) Republicans? This is my answer and it is so much fun to watch them try to counter it.

After she is elected President there are two possible scenarios. The first is she will change things for the better (whatever the better is). In that case I picked the correct candidate and my life is better than it was before. The second is she will change things for the worse (again whatever the worse is). In that case I can say “I TOLD YOU SO”. In the very slim chance there is no change then I can say it makes no difference who is in the White House since it is obvious conditions are dependent upon factors external to it and/or the United States. In that case President Bush was just as good as any other President. For me it has become a win win win situation.

They are stupified on how to answer and I love going and getting another bowl of popcorn.

Mike

[Lucky9teen]

[x]

Except if John Edwards were "the boy next door" most of us would move ...

These characters are more generic teen film stereotypes, and not John Hughes movie characters ...

Unless you're talking about the Breakfast Club:

Emilio Estevez (Obama) ends up with girl geek Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald (Hillary) ends up with thug Judd Nelson.

I guess that leaves Anthony Michael Hall as Edwards.

Probably the best John Hughes character in this race is Dennis Kucinich as Jon "Ducky" Cryer.

Except in this case he really did get the girl.

Some of the duller candidates could play the teachers and principals in the Hughes films.

Come to think of it, what about Ron Paul as Ben Stein's charater in Buehler:

They share a passion for talking about tariffs, though I think Stein probably knows more about economics than Paul does.

If Obama really is the high school basketball star (would the writer actually say that if he were White?) maybe O., a high school retelling of Othello, is the movie of this campaign.

It's not a John Hughes flick, and if Hillary is Iago it would certainly complicate things.

[okie01]

Here's the point. People are irrational and busy creatures. The vast majority of us don't have the time or inclination to read policy papers, and even if we did, we probably wouldn't be moved by them (unless we are wonks or pundits or political science majors). We are conditioned to make decisions based on emotional rationale, peer pressure, that abstract stuff of gut feelings.

WE...are Democrats.

[Clemenza]

Molly Ringwald as Hillary.

Judd Nelson as Fred Thompson.

Emilio Estevez as Mitt Romney.

Anthony Michael Hall as Ron Paul.

The corpse of Paul Gleason as John McCain.