McCain/Clinton win Florida, look for brokered GOP convention

Impressions quickly because I’m busy doing paying work:

1)Sad that Rudy conked out – and I should have listened to my gut and held off on the donation.

2)McCain has McMentum but I ain’t excited. Can’t say Mitt excites me either, so I am still officially undecided and unexcited. For now, it’s stretching and belly-scratching time. What’s on the old movie channel?

3)Unless Super Tuesday swings dramatically to Obama, Hillary is the Dem nominee; she’s got the super-delegates, and I have no doubt she’ll finagle the Michigan delegates into their seats.

4)That would not be a bad thing, especially as her campaign tries to contain Bill and keep him in the background. President Clinton needs attention; he absolutely requires it because attention “feels like love” to him. If he can’t get attention by being good, he’ll be bad. Either way, unless they put him into sick bay he’s gonna make Hillary’s campaign difficult for her – fun for the rest of us. The press may not enjoy it much; they’ve invested 16 years of credibility-building into Clinton, but for the rest of us…get the popcorn.

5)Limbaugh will continue to be almost unlistenable. I ‘ve been listening in more than usual, lately, and all Rush talks about is himself or John McCain and he’s almost shrill about how he is going to “preserve conservatism.” That’s fine, but it’s making for some very boring and repetitive programing. While I am not a “dittohead” I have listened and found Rush to be funny, articulate and smart – I thought his payback to Harry Reid re the Senator’s letter to his network was brilliant. What I have heard lately has been bombastic and rather a lot about himself…which leads me to believe…

6)A brokered GOP Convention is already in the works and should surprise no one. The hard-right conservatives will try to get their own candidate onto the top of the ticket. Don’t know who they’ve got in mind for it, but these folks are not going to stand for McCain and Limbaugh is curiously silent on Romney (he all but ignored Giuliani).

7)Won’t mind that. Will be interesting to watch. I’m convinced this election is going to be pivotal for the nation – a very important one. Lives will hinge on it.

‘8)I have no idea where I’ll end up, but after Tuesday, I go back to being a registered Indy. It’s pretty clear to me I’m politically homeless. And that’s okay, too.

9) I’ve always been a lone wolf.

10) I talk about myself almost as much as Limbaugh. He profits a lot more from it, though! :-)

Now, I’m back to work! Talk amongst yourselves.

Related:SOTU Impressions ’08.

Belmont links w/ another story of character about Obama.