My Brain Hurts

Okay. So here's one that separates the true political junkies from the dabblers. Robert Novak (aka "The Prince of Darkness") drops a teasing little line in his column that the Clinton campaign has sordid dirt on Obama but won't use it. Obama comes out swinging, saying he won't be "swift boated" and the Clinton campaign says it's a load of bullshit, they have no such info, and what a sap Obama is for falling for a Republican dirty trick. Who wins? You have 30 seconds.

Evil Bastard

Bob Novak, of course, who will say and do anything and has no professional scruples whatsoever and outed Valerie Plame but never went to goddamn jail for it. He kind of waves the trinket, ooh, bright and shiny, and the next thing you know, the kittens are fighting over it. How does this help Republicans (which is really Novak's game)? It makes voters so disgusted with politics that they stay home.

As Louis Armstrong sang, "It's a wonderful world."

The flip side of this is former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean has endorsed John McCain, which is pretty damn funny because Kean sat on the 911 commission, was the governor of the state adjacent to New York, yet doesn't endorse Rudy "911" Guiliani. Which is just about as big a kick in the nads as you can get in Republican politics, especially since Rudy stepped off the 911 commission so he could make a buncha bucks giving speeches about how brave and selfless he was during 911. (Inside dope: Rudy was peeing his pants.)

Why anybody in the right mind pays any attention to Novak is beyond me, much less why anyone would continue to hire/publish this steaming turd molded into semi-human shape, but I think it's fair to say that he'll be thrashing around like a cornered animal for the next twelve months, trying to set as many fires are he can, because, come December 2008, the game'll be up and it'll be time for Mr. Novak to move into assisted living. I don't think he'll retire to "spend more time with his family" because, seriously, who'd want to hang with Mr. Lizard?