[Miss Marple]

The press will not rest until they can create a scandal concerning the Conclave. That is what they are up to. They have been hinting that Ratzinger had Nazi ties, that the Argenine cardinal had ties to the dictatorship, etc. etc.

Whoever is chosen, the press will go after him in droves, because they saw how beloved Pope John Paul was.

"We can't have THAT, you know! The Pope cannot be loved! The Pope must be a villain, because he doesn't agree with US on liberalizing the Church!"

[andie74]

Oh, I know...but I predict a discussion about cardinals pressuring other cardinals to vote in certain ways, for third world cardinals to have been oppressed by cardinals of European ancestry, for sexuality of cardinals to be brought to question...

Oh, this is going to be sick...sick...sick...without the shenanigans of hanging chads and such.