Great Minds Think Alike, Part 2

So back in November I posted a piece about how I beat one of my favorite columnists, Camille Paglia, to the punch on a topic regarding Hillary Clinton's behavior. It seems I have done it again! Miss Paglia was a day late in her analysis of Clinton's New Hampshire victory, how her polarizing personality would bring further gridlock to DC if she were elected, and the awful way she and her husband treat the people they supposedly care about. I don't always agree with Paglia's political views, but her analysis of politics is often dead on.

As for Cupid Shuffle's latest post thanking Fred Thompson, I must give him a hearty thank you as well. He is a useful loser in this instance, not really having a chance at winning in South Carolina but perhaps sucking off enough votes from Huckabee's evangelical base to help assure a McCain win. The scenario of McCain winning Michigan, South Carolina, and Florida prior to Super Tuesday is becoming more plausible with each passing day. While his campaign is re-invigorated, the one candidate going after the same GOP voters as him - Rudy Giuliani - is now asking staff to go without pay. Perhaps that strategy of waiting until Florida didn't work out after all. Meanwhile, Romney is drawing small crowds in his home state of Michigan. While he is out touting his parents burial plots and cynically appealing to auto workers with pipe dreams of getting their old jobs back, McCain is proposing real solutions like federal programs to help community colleges cope with the crunch of workers that need new training in rust belt states. Having just moved from Michigan after working six years there, I can tell you Romney is barking up the wrong tree. The conservatives of Michigan (who will be voting on the 15th) have been seeking economic diversification for decades, realizing that Big Three dominance was finished once the US auto market was opened up to foreign competition. It is now bad enough that even the rank-and-file of the unions recognize that the state must look to more than auto industry jobs for its economic future.

Perhaps the GOP may finally right the wrong that was done to McCain eight years ago, starting in Michigan next Tuesday.