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Domenici: Reflections On Good Old Saint Pete
For the past several months New Mexico has busied itself with maudlin lamentations over the retirement of six-term Senator "Saint" Pete Domenici, who announced he wanted to spend more time with his favorite oil well.
It didn't take long for the circus to start, with the state media latching onto the retirement story like tiger sharks circling a fat man slathered in cod oil clinging to a raft. They interviewed Domenici colleagues, neighbors, family members, and even dug up one of his old elementary school teachers in Albuquerque.
Editor's note: Jon Schwedler's blogs are part of NewWest.Net/Politics' "Diary of a Mad Voter" feature, a group blog, published in partnership with the Denver Post's Politics West intended give a glimpse into the hearts and minds of several independent-minded voters and thinkers in the Rocky Mountain West in the '08 election cycle. For more columns check in with www.newwest.net/madvoter. And for more information on each of the bloggers, click here.
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Diary Of A Mad Voter: Jon Schwedler
Holy Crap, I (Heart) Huckabee!It was a surprise to me as much as anyone. I like Mike Huckabee.
The new Republican front-runner in Iowa is a former fat Baptist minister from by-God Arkansas who doesn't believe in evolution or choice for women. He calls himself the true Christian conservative. He believes the world is 4,000 years old. His idea of international relations is yelling across the holler.
But so far he is my favorite candidate. And ... what the hell is wrong with me?
Editor's note: Jon Schwedler's blogs are part of a new feature on NewWest.Net/Politics called "Diary of a Mad Voter," a group blog, published in partnership with the Denver Post's Politics West intended give a glimpse into the hearts and minds of several independent-minded voters and thinkers in the Rocky Mountain West in the '08 election cycle. Check back this week at www.newwest.net/madvoter.
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