As a registered republican, I don’t have much to like about my presidential candidates. Romney? Ugh. Huckabee, AKA the soldier of God? Ugh. McCain? Enough with him already. I like Giuliani because he’s a letch like every man, but no.

On the other side, I can only watch the festivities. Let me make this as clear as possible: I fucking hate Hillary Clinton. I do not want to see her become president. Luckily, most other people don’t either, except for dumb fucks in New York who think they’re smarter than everyone. John Edwards is an ambulance chaser who is running on a populist message while inhabiting the largest house in his North Carolina county. Fuck him. Because of those two disasters calling themselves candidates, Barack Obama is enjoying a hell of a surge.

I have to admit that no one on either side can deliver a speech like Obama can. He can make people cry with the way he talks. The problem I have is that his actions don’t make him much different than Hillary, aside from health care, which he would so graciously allow me to keep paying for on my own if I can afford it. We have a pretty, silver-tongued governor here in Maryland who won election promising health, wealth and prosperity for all. In his first year in office my power bill has increased more than 70% (as a candidate he promised to do something about that even though it was going to happen anyway), income, property, sales, new car titling, cigarette and a bunch of other taxes have gone up a lot, and I am not kidding when I tell people it’s getting to where I can’t afford to live in Maryland anymore. Compounding that is the fact that while I’m paying so much more in taxes, my household income is too high to take advantage of most of the things my increased taxes are paying for. Martin O’Malley became governor and at his first opportunity he bent the state over and fucked it up the ass with a fat lead pipe. History will not be kind to that man.

Anyway, that was a long stray off the path to say that Barack Obama makes me think of Martin O’Malley (even though O’Guv is an avowed Hillary supporter, which is another reason to hate him). And Martin O’Malley doesn’t inspire hope or make me think of change. He makes me think of moving somewhere else.

The truth is that there is one candidate who can really point to his record and claim to be an agent of change. That’s Ron Paul. The guy who’s been in congress for 20 years and thinks of himself as a D.C. outsider.

Bleh, I’m getting depressed.