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Team Politics

The McCain Thompson duo is interesting. Fred Thompson once was part of McCain's campaign and is his friend. So he stays in the race despite pulling low numbers in various states. He attacks Mitt Romney where he is McCain's leading opponent. And he is attacking Mike Huckabee where he is McCain's leading opponent such as in South Carolina. So is Fred Thompson running for himself or his friend John McCain who can give him a cushy job in government where he doesn't have to work very hard?

McCain and Huckabee have been friendly helping each other beat Mitt Romney in Iowa and New Hampshire. McCain can now stay friendly while having his own friend in Thompson beat up on Huckabee. He doesn't take the negative heat but benefits from the attacks. And Mitt Romney is pretty much by himself in the race. He only has the corporations behind him. He is from Michigan so there is no better choice for some. Would you rather be fired by a faceless corporation or fired by the corporation given incentives by one of your own? Either way, he'll continue to help corporations sell Michigan out. It just depends whether Michigan residents want a familiar name to do it.

On the other side, Obama and Edwards both want Hillary Clinton to be knocked out of the race. And in previous times, it seemed like Richardson, Dodd and Biden were working to defend Clinton. But it's only a team for the moment. Eventually the Richardson camp was suspected of teaming with Obama's camp and throwing his support in caucuses over to them. But that could also happen on various state and local levels. There are really only two teams on the Democratic side. Those for Hillary and those against. No matter how much we love a family, do we really want thirty years of just two families running the United States? We're not supposed to be run by royal families but it sure looks like it.

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posted by - A @ 9:55 AM