You don’t get it do you. Hillary, McCain who cares?
I am a realist. I live in the real world, with real choices. The American people are not breathlessly swooning for George Bush, let alone for Thompson. Not even active Republicans in primaries are. The country simply isn't as conservative as I am, or you are, and it is going to be a bad year. A failing president of an incumbent party that has been in office a long time, is presiding over a long drawn out, unpopular war that hasn't been finished successfully, and over a weakening economy with high gas prices etc. We will be lucky to come through this with filibuster blocking strength in the senate, let alone control of the white house or a majority in congress.
Pretending is therefore doesn't matter is called giving up and it is pretending, and I don't do that. I live in the real world.