NH Moves Up Primary

In the insanity that is this election cycle, New Hampshire has moved up their primary to January 9, yes, the second week of January. The novelty of new Christmas toys (and the lead paint) will not even have worn off and the good people of the Granite State will be voting for their favorite Republican or Democrat. By the second week of February, we'll know who the candidates are and then the real fun begins. At least the preliminary sniping will cease.

The good in all this is that the candidates will be scrutinized even more than in past years--imagine how much dirt can be dug up on Hillary if she were the only candidate for nine months! The joy.

Imagine how many times we can see the Rudy in drag picture or see the one-thousandth story about Mitt and Mormonism. Good stuff.

Or not.

It's well passed the time that candidates running for office must first resign from any elected office held--Hillary, McCain, Obama, Richardson, Paul and all the rest have not been serving their constituents to the best of their abilities and should have had the decency to step down while campaigning. The election cycle now has no break, immediately after the inauguration, the next election starts and it's an endless cycle, if candidates were forced to relinquish their positions, we'd see that change and we'd see candidates who actually think they have a shot running, not some loser Texas Congressman and his band of roving idiots campaigning while still getting paid for not doing his job. We'd not have a calculating New York Senator with a closet full of more skeletons than a season of CSI traipsing all around Iowa while ignoring her duties in Washington, D.C.

We'll know in a couple of months; is it Hill, Barrack or the Silky Pony. Is it Rudy, Fred, Mitt (please don't allow us to have a prez named Mitt) or Huck. We'll know soon enough and than the real marathon begins. Hooray.

In other news, the 2012 Iowa Caucuses have been moved up to January 21st 2009.