The_Elucidator
03-06-2007, 03:31 AM
Premature Politics
By Thomas Sowell (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/author/thomas_sowell/)
Some of us had just gotten used to the fact that it is now 2007, when all sorts of people started acting as if it is 2008.
Polls keep coming out showing who is the front-runner among the many Democratic and Republican candidates for their respective parties' presidential nomination. Why all this hype, this early, about front-runners? Has everyone forgotten the old saying, "In politics, overnight is a lifetime"?
Some of us are old enough to remember "front-runner Ed Muskie" and "front-runner Gary Hart," not to mention "President Dewey."
However inaccurate today's poll numbers may be as a guide to who is going to be nominated to run for president more than a year from now, the ugly sniping that has already started may be all too indicative of what to expect when the nomination races come down the home stretch and then the presidential campaigns get under way.
A new low has already been struck with an exploitation of the religious issue with claims that some of Governor Mitt Romney's Mormon ancestors had multiple wives.
Are Governor Romney's ancestors going to be on the ballot? The fields are so crowded that I hadn't noticed. The irony in all this, as someone has pointed out, is that Governor Romney seems to be one of the few politicians these days who has had only one wife.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/premature_politics.html
Classic!
By Thomas Sowell (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/author/thomas_sowell/)
Some of us had just gotten used to the fact that it is now 2007, when all sorts of people started acting as if it is 2008.
Polls keep coming out showing who is the front-runner among the many Democratic and Republican candidates for their respective parties' presidential nomination. Why all this hype, this early, about front-runners? Has everyone forgotten the old saying, "In politics, overnight is a lifetime"?
Some of us are old enough to remember "front-runner Ed Muskie" and "front-runner Gary Hart," not to mention "President Dewey."
However inaccurate today's poll numbers may be as a guide to who is going to be nominated to run for president more than a year from now, the ugly sniping that has already started may be all too indicative of what to expect when the nomination races come down the home stretch and then the presidential campaigns get under way.
A new low has already been struck with an exploitation of the religious issue with claims that some of Governor Mitt Romney's Mormon ancestors had multiple wives.
Are Governor Romney's ancestors going to be on the ballot? The fields are so crowded that I hadn't noticed. The irony in all this, as someone has pointed out, is that Governor Romney seems to be one of the few politicians these days who has had only one wife.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/premature_politics.html
Classic!