The Long Primary Season

I have always hated politics. Even though politics controls everything, I find it mean spirited and boring. Therefore, the less news coverage it gets, the better. And the shorter the campaigns the better.

HOWEVER, I am beginning to see an advantage to long campaigns and long primary seasons, just as there is an advantage to a long courtship. The longer they go on, the more you find out. Good, bad, and ugly, the more you find out.

That was certainly true of the democratic primary race. I'm sure John McCain just sat back watching Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama slug it out.

He needed to do no campaigning whatsoever while they dragged each other through the mud and the muck.