This primary has been good for the Democratic party. The numbers from Pennsylvania have just been released, and there has been a surge in new Democratic voters. Both Montgomery and Bucks counties, long Republican redoubts, now have Democratic majorities of voters. Remarkable.

This is happening in state after state. Waves of energized Democrats getting involved in the campaigns. And it is a pipe dream to think any but a small fraction will end up in the McCain camp when this is over.

Not just the Presidency will fall to the Democrats, but statehouses across the nation.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton gets nailed for…telling the truth. The woman’s family confirms it. So what the fuck?

You just haven’t experienced the mind-altering properties of Wingnut Koolaid…

It’s kind of fascinating how the Rethugs can campaign as “crusading outsiders” who solemnly vow to “clean up” Washington - whose dire condition was caused by earlier versions of Rethug “crusading outsiders” who solemnly vowed to “clean up” Washington.

My favorite is still how the press managed to sell the son of a president and the grandson of a US senator as a Washington outsider. Especially one who had worked for his father’s presidential campaign. But of course, Al Gore was the ultimate insider because his father was a senator. Or something.

I can’t quite distort my brain to the degree required to be a Republican. Maybe I need a sharp blow to the head or something for that to make sense.

The more I read about the attacks on Hillary, the more I feel it’s Republican ratfucking all over again. Just like the “Somali garb” story was a Republican ratfucking “twofer”; by releasing the photos and blaming Hillary for them, the GOP got two for one. They got to feed doubts about “Obama The Secret Muslim”, they got a chance to make Hillary look bad and they got to sow division in the Democratic party, all without getting their own hands dirty.

Will this get better if/when Obama is the nominee? No, I’m afraid it will only get worse.

How is it putting “your foot in your mouth” when the story is true?

You may want to follow both my and Blue Jean’s links before you decide this is some kind of gaffe on Hillary’s part. It’s actually more like when Al Gore said that Erich Segal told him that the main character of Love Story was partially based on Gore and the press decided that Gore must be lying even though Segal himself confirmed it.

Keeping things as competitive and on the edge as possible is the current goal of the media establishment. It’s all about the 50/50 split. If things were actually reported, do you think that split would last? The actually ideological split is actually somewhere between 65-35 and 70-30. That’s actually what the elections should be each and every time out, at least until the GOP decides to change. Probably would be forced to be a whole lot less radical. Less contrarion. Less controversial.

It’s all about ratings and readership. Even looking for deeper corporate conspiracies I think is missing the forest for the trees.