On GOP candidates for the 2008 election...

Well, what can I say. Which is to say that, there isn't much to go on with.

There is the implosion of John McCain's campaign, even so early on in the pre-season. I guess McCain, like John Edwards, had missed the opportunity to make the mark in the past election campaign, and now both are being overshadowed by newcomers. All they're left with is the impression of old/tiredness. It's a pity (in a way).

But no tear is shed.

Then there is Rudy Giuliani. The self-important candidate who thinks he's _the_ candidate, on the basis that he handled 9/11. But I doubt if he's going to survive the right-wing conservatives for a nomination, given his divorce and all. Afterall, the fact that Bush has a dutiful wife looks very favorably on this otherwise silly man.

And then there is Mitt Romney. Well, what can I say about this flip-flop? I watch politics in Massachusetts, and I know. Don't get me wrong. He's a smart guy and all. Otherwise he couldn't have made a name for himself in business (compared to the hanger-on, C-grade MBA president that we have now). And I would bet he would do quite well working for the Bush administration, given that he works so well adhering to pre-arranged scripts. Having said that, he, like Giuliani, would have much problems with the hardcore conservatives, if only solely due to his Mormon belief. Can he flip-flop out of his religious belief, and still try to look like a leader who can walk the walk, and talk the talk? I highly doubt it.

The subject of the war in Iraq. This is easy for GOP, and infinitely hard for Dems. Any of the candidates (McCain, Giuliani, and Romney) can simply stick by the war, citing this terrorist link that has never been there. I'm sure the core diehards Republicans, like that stupid Elizabeth Hasselbeck (on the View program who argued with Rosie based on whatever that she learnt and memorized from the Karl Rove scripts), will always vote for GOP, regardless of who that GOP nominee might be.

For the rest of the not-so-stupid GOP's, I'll bet that they're going to wake up one day, and realize the war is a mistake, and that this GOP president is not really a GOP, and GOP really is the one who's spending big time, and the government is expanding, and the deficits are growing to a frightening level, and the GOP doesn't even have a strategy for the economy (as does everything else, like the war), and the only thing Bush knows how to say, according to the script, is that the economy is going strong whenever average middle America is all struggling. Perhaps then, they would come to realize that GOP is such a mistake...