Monday, West Lafayette, Indiana

Without giving away my exact political preferences (although regular readers here may be able to tell - or think they can) mostly what I am is averse to rigidity and narrow ideologues. And so, as we are all aware, cretins of both stripes occupy the bleachers of both the Democrats and Republicans. And they all make me gag!

I find the bombast of Al Sharpton as odious as that of Sean Hannity. Neither of these morons demonstrate any flexible thinking. Everything about them and their ilk (Ann Coulter & Moveon.org) is about attacking anyone not fitting into their preconceived ideas — which is the depth of stupidity. And as a citizen, I have had enough of over exposed stupidity in the media and in government.

With all that said, I do recall listening once to the millionaire blowhard Rush Limbaugh and agreeing with his analysis about the difference between Republicans and Democrats. I’m paraphrasing, but he said in effect that Republicans are generally unified by some few core beliefs — small government, economic conservativism, etc..

In contrast, he asserts that the Democrats are a motley collection of mixed ideas and are really not joined collectively by any particular principles. And to a large degree, although I have certainly voted for Democratic candidates in the past, and will again this fall, I think this is an accurate assessment. And I believe that it accounts for the fact that only 2 Democrats have been elected president in the past 46 years.

The Democrats, quite frankly have become a tiring and irritating soap opera. Whether or not you are a supporter of Obama, it has certainly been disconcerting to watch Bill and Hillary Clinton engaged in the juvenile antics of rejected teenagers making problems for the Democratic initiative. The latest is Bill Clinton apparently complaining about the role he has been assigned at the convention. This is a guy I used to admire. And in less than one year he has so turned me off that I want him to just disappear. I for one believe that he was personally responsible for sabotaging his wife’s campaign with his stupid antics during the primaries. As much as I admire Obama, I believe that Hillary Clinton would have secured the nomination if it wasn’t for the negative presence of her idiot husband.

It will be interesting to watch the show this week. Let’s see if Democrats can come out of this and into the campaign behaving like something other than recent Democrats.