The Friday Presidential ‘BushWhack’ing

It’s Friday, so here’s your dollop of presidential race news…

• Last Tuesday was the Michigan gop primary, won by Mitt “Rhymes with Fit” Romney, making it 3 winners in three contests. Needless to say the media is tripping over themselves to say the gop race is wide open and now headed to South Carolina… to them I say; well duhhhh.
• Also this past Tuesday, the Democratic candidates held what could best be described as their most congeal debate and agreed to speak on the issues and not sling mud (or in the case of Clinton, have others – cough cough, Bob Johnson, who did apologize earlier this week) do it… but how long can that possibly last?? My bet is Sunday… why Sunday? Because…
• The Nevada Democratic caucus is tomorrow… Obama is leading in polls, but he was also leading in New Hampshire. Having said that, the ruling by a federal judge earlier this week that kept nine casino-based caucus sites open certainly helps the man who won the endorsement of the state culinary workers union … stay tuned.
• Sen. Obama received an endorsement this past week from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who is also the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. What does that mean for Obama? Not much, but it’s still an endorsement from a senior senator…
• Sen. Clinton and her husband, President Clinton, are playing, per CNN, good cop/bad cop on the campaign trail… it’s not news, it’s sensationalism…
• Speaking of sensationalism; Sen. McCain has been consistently spouting off recently about being attacked by his competition… who in turn are saying he’s exaggerating about the attacks…
• The second-coming of Ronald Reagan, AKA Fred Thompson, is pinning his hopes on winning South Carolina… considering that Thompson was third in Iowa, garnered 1% of the vote in New Hampshire and got 4% in Michigan, where he even came in behind Ron Paul. If he doesn’t have a good showing there, expect him to drop out of the race sometime after Tuesday’s primary…
• Gov. Huckabee is hoping his conservative credentials… excuse me, his “conservative, evangelical Southern credentials” are impressive enough to South Carolina voters that he wins big next Tuesday. (I certainly see Huckabee having a much better opportunity to win the state than Thompson - who will almost certainly be out of the race by this time next week – but I think it’s gonna be Romney or McCain)
• And have we mentioned? That Sen. Edwards is also putting a LOT into Tuesday’s South Carolina primary? He’s hoping that, as a South Carolina native who won that state’s primary in 2004, lightening will strike twice and propel him back into the thick of the race… stay tuned