Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth

Bleech. We're stuck with John McCain.

The Democrats are in a frenzy, with the Clintons having to eat Barack Obama in plain sight of everybody, blood and gore dripping from their teeth, and it turns out there isn't a Republican running against them.

The bastards. The whole miserable lot of Republicans sent to Washington in 2000. They set themselves to pork-barrelling, didn't give a damn about the issues, then the whole self-serving lot have given up their majority, and now they can't even find a sober man to run for the presidency among them.

And McCain;—that blundering, angry, blathering, left-leaning doofus. A man without a clue as to what he wants to do with or for the country, but who pretends to want to lead it. It makes me queasy, just thinking about it.

I DID get my wish, though. With Thompson and Giuliani out of the election, at least there's a chance that Conservatives could unite around Romney—but that would have had to have been before Florida, where it would have helped, not now, where it may be too late.

With any luck, McCain will blow a gasket before next Tuesday.

Seminaries of literature and the sciences

This came tossed over our transom window this morning, sent from The Patriot Post's e-mail service, the Founders' Quote Daily:

"Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates... to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them."
-- John Adams (Thoughts on Government, 1776)

Interesting quote from Adams. A good legislative concern for the seminaries of literature and science would also include, for the founders, the popular government taking an interest in the curriculum being taught there. No one ever erected a wall of seperation between the government and the colleges and universities...