Republicans Find a New Friend

We've all watched athletic competitions involving several teams either running, skiing or driving race cars against opposing teams, each individual competitor trying to achieve their personal best while attempting to do nothing to impair their team's or team mates' chances of also triumphing over the competition. The Democratic and Republican parties are running against one another now, trying to win the presidential election in our country. It seems that the individuals on each team either missed every opportunity to view and learn from previous team sporting events, or, they watched and learned nothing.

The Republican Party has its share of hurtles and obstacles to overcome. The Bush presidency has been riddled with controversy, not the least of which is the war in Iraq. It appeared at one point that the Democratic Party would benefit from a natural advantage, being "the other guys" who weren't responsible for the nation's current woes and therefore winning the citizens' confidence that things could change if the White house shifted from a Republican to a Democratic resident. Instead, the Democratic candidates running for that lofty office have turned on each other, as though they were a pack of mongrel dogs fighting over a bloody bone in some dark and dirty alley.

The Republicans should be breathing a collective sigh of relief. Whereas once they certainly may have felt themselves "the hopeless underdog", now, they must be feeling new hope. Their competitor, the other team in the race, has taken on the policy of tripping one another, knocking each other down, using any dirty move that will cause their team mates to look bad and perform badly. When the candidates first took the field I thought perhaps the Republican Party had covertly infiltrated the Democratic camp and had secretly picked the democratic candidates themselves. The democratic hopefuls were a woman, an African American, Cleveland's extraterrestrial sighter, an uppity rich guy with little personality, and someone from New Mexico; is that part of Mexico?