Alan Keyes is Not Making Sense, but He is Running for President

The Iowa caucus is being held tonight starting at 7 P.M. local time, which means that those of us here on the east coast will have to wait until 10 or 11 to find out who a small percentage of the tiny population of an isolated midwestern state have deemed worthy to continue their presidential campaigns. The Iowa caucus is the traditional start of the primary election season, and serves as the perfect prologue to the New Hampshire primary, scheduled for January 8 this time around, when a small percentage of the population of a tiny northeastern state will winnow the field of candidates even further in preparation for the next few months when, after the media and the two major parties have already made up their minds who the nominees should be, the rest of the American people get to vote.

If you're like me and are unaffiliated with either major party, then none of this concerns you. But just in case any Republicans or Democrats who are engaged in their party's respective political processes are reading this, I have a few suggestions on who you might consider voting for. No one has ever asked me for my opinion on the candidates, and I have no idea what I am talking about, but that has never stopped Pat Buchanan from shooting his mouth off, and it shan't stop me, either. If I had my way, the next president wouldn't be a Democrat or a Republican - he or she would be a democrat and a republican, and honest, and independent, and able to write and deliver a decent speech a few times a year. Really, I wouldn't expect much. Reasonably good pronunciation and diction would be a marked improvement on the last seven years.