[Harrius Magnus]

I am a MD, but it doesn't take one to know the diagnosis. I too have SP-itis. Unfortunately, it is a delusional state whereby starving Americans look to a pretty face, and see hope from the the long travail of the desert. We want hope so badly that even the mirage of this easy answer will quench the thirst.

Don't expect rational arguments from your fellow vanquished, as they taste the sand and claim an oasis...

I would love for her to be the answer, the Neo, but she just isn't anything more than a resonating reed in a parched earthware we call American Conservatism.

[john drake]

Doc, I sense some comraderie (I have a brother’s who’s an MD, although he doesn’t surf these waters much); I concur with your diagnosis and would hope she will some how assist in the future as more than a pretty face to draw conservatives to the oasis. Time will tell. In the meantime, the search remains in earnest for more qualified candidates, but the drought appears to be deeply entrenched....not a lot of time left with the divining rod, is there? Although the Obamaites continue to step in their own fecal matter lately which provides some comfort.