John McCain: PBJ, What R U up 2 this weekend?

When you get invited to a BBQ at the McCain ranch over Memorial Day weekend, what would you expect to do? I'd want to hang out with his daughter Meghan - we could ride horses and talk about blogging & politics.

But if you're Florida Govenor Charlie Crist, our Governor Jindal, or Mitt Romney, people are going to expect you're plotting politics. VP politics, specifically. And they'll probably have a poolside cannonball/belly flop contest too.

If you can't tell, the idea of politicians hanging out together has always amused me. One must wonder, how do these guys actually get invited to something like this? [Obviously, it's something like "my people call your people."] But it's much more fun to imagine that McCain created an Evite or Facebook invitation: "John McCain has invited you to a Memorial Day BBQ Bash..." Or, it's also fun to imagine this as something like a fraternity rush party. Also, since it's very exclusive, I would imagine that such an invite would come with a disclaimer such as: "Don't tell Rick Perry or Mike Huckabee about this - they weren't invited and I don't want to hurt their feelings."

Sadly, I was not invited to the super-exclusive McCain Memorial Day festivities. However, ALTL and I will be road-tripping to Houston where we will do some real shopping and take in a baseball game in attempt to cure our Hornets-heartbreak. We'll probably be drunk 95% of the time - and that's way more fun than some stiff Republican rush party.

Chucklebee sucks

I like hate Mike.

Speaking of Mike Chucklebee - apparently he's knocking our state's primary system. From NOLA.com:

"It's goofy," Huckabee said. "Well, it's Louisiana."

Roger Villere, chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party, said he took offense at Huckabee's assessment and predicted it could hurt the candidate at the state party convention Saturday.

"To call our process goofy and say it's just Louisiana isn't the way to endear yourself," Villere said. "It's not the way to build a coalition. It doesn't leave a good taste in my mouth."

Shame on Mike Huckabee for reinforcing a commonly-held negative stereotype about this state. Even though he may write his own comments off as harmless or just a little joke, he just won a primary in a state that just elected an idealistic Republican governor (with conservative principles much in line with Huckabee's own) who is leading an effort to change our state's national image for the better. Huckabee should be extremely grateful that he is in the good graces of the conservative voters of this state.

While I agree with some of Huckabee's social positions and most of his economic ones, I have consciously chosen not to support him as our candidate in 2008 because I do not think this country needs another 4 (or 8) years of a president who has a whole country apologizing for him every time he opens his mouth. I wanted to at least support him in theory. But not anymore - I am very disappointed that he chose to talk about our state in this manner.

I <3 Huckabee

Obama Girl was just annoying...but this is funny...

ALTR's quiz

Like ALTL, I took the quiz too. Here's what it says about my support - this is helpful since I'm pretty much undecided (except for the Republican part). But I'm pretty sure I'm going to avoid the Huckabee route. So - McCain it is! Then Mitt Romney (my future father-in-law). Then Ron Paul (who I love a lot).

79% Mike Huckabee
78% John McCain
76% Mitt Romney
72% Ron Paul
72% Fred Thompson
71% Tom Tancredo
58% Rudy Giuliani
42% Bill Richardson
32% Hillary Clinton
31% Barack Obama
30% John Edwards
28% Mike Gravel
26% Chris Dodd
25% Joe Biden
21% Dennis Kucinich

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz