The Pennsylvania Primary

Well. It's finally here. Pennsylvania's primary. If you're a Democrat, you finally get to decide which extreme left-of-center candidate is right for you. If you're a Republican.....well you have McCain or, if you are in a protest vote mood, Ron Paul or Mike Huckabee.

I confess that I was originally a Giuliani supporter. I felt Rudy offered the right mix of hawkishness on the Islamofascists' War Against Us, executive experience and tax-cutting acumen.
Unfortunately, his campaign got off the ground about as well as the Hindenburg.

So I'm left with John McCain. He's ok. On the War, he was the only candidate who was tougher than Giuliani. He's for eliminating earmarks which, while they represent a small part of the overall budget, is important symbolically and for re-establishing the party's credentials fiscally.

Ron Paul is actually halfway there for me. His take on smaller government and referencing the Constitution on domestic matters resonates with a small government libertarian conservative like myself. Unfortunately, his isolationist views are naive at best and disastrous at worst.

Mike Huckabee, outside of his income tax reform proposals, reminds me of what scientists would devise if the objective was Republican Jimmy Carter.

As for more local races, I keep getting phone calls to write in William Russell to run against John Murtha. I think I'm going to do it, just on general principle.