The Nothing and a rant

So usually at the begining of the week, I regale my two readers with tales of weekend shenanigans. But this weekend we didn't really do anything interesting. At least not to you two.
Jack had some live viruses injected into his chubby little thighs on Friday*, and that in conjunction with the three teeth that are cutting made for a very cranky baby indeed. For the most part, he either slept or whined all weekend. This was also the first weekend in a while that we didn't have a major obligation an hour's drive away, so we spent a lot of it cleaning a very dirty house, and trimming the yard's hair.
So what should I write about? How about a few little things that are creeping and crawling around in my head. 1) I am slowly getting more confident in the country. More and more people are starting to see that the Bush administration in paticular and the Republican party in general have been corrupted by absolute power. These mid term elections will be a good test to see how much total bullshit the country can take. That is, of course, if the Democrats don't fuck it up like they usually do. The thing about the Dems is that they hardly ever really fuck up them selves. They just don't fight back when attacked, so the general populace figure whatever the GOP said was true. And they don't have any balls. The Repubs went after Clinton so hard for a seemingly crooked land deal in Arkansas that they ended up being exonerated for, yet they cried impeachment because he got a hummer from tubby. Bush has done so many horrible things that are WAY worse, and the deems sit on their haunches afraid that if they say anything they will be called a traitor. But they are pulling out of that. They are gaining ground as the Repubs slip.
That being said, 2) I really don't want Hillary to run in '08. Not a good idea. I think she's a good politician and that her heart is in the right place, and she would make a good president, but she's not electable. In the same way that Obama isn't. They are too green, and the demographics of the people who actually vote are still to old school** to open their minds that much. So I think Gore should run again. Stop laughing and hear me out.
-He's already beat Bush, and anybody that they put up (except McCain, whom I would totally vote for) wouldn't be anywhere near Bush's crazy crazy, tipping the odds heavily in Gore's favor.
-In the 2000 election, all of Gore's mud was already slung. They already dug up whatever they could dig up on him, and nobody seemed to care that much.
-I really like what he's been doing with his time off. The web stuff*** and the environmental stuff have been top notch, and I think a lot of people have seen that.
- He's tall, good-looking, and Nader isn't running.
- He's not in the pocket of the oil companies.

I don't think he'll do it, but if he did, and if he was for some reason up against Hillary in a primary, I think the same thing that happened to Lieberman would happen to Hillary. She'd get swooped by the one guy more left than her. I would totally vote for him. Again.



* He also went to his first day of pre-school. He wore a dinosaur outfit. He was really cute.
** (racist redneck chauvinists)
*** The only beef I have is that he fired Layla Kayleigh, who was a correspondent on Current, after she did a Maxim shoot. That wasn't cool, but she's on AOTS now, which is cool.