Please Pass the Salt

Filed under: Blogging, Feature — Rick Moran on January 9, 2008 @ 7:42 pm CET

MMMMMMMM…Lunch!

Well, it could have been worse. I could have gone with Edwards for second place like I did in Iowa.

The capacity of the American voter to surprise, delight, and madden was on full display last night in Hillary Clinton’s win. It reminds all of us the lessons that socialists, communists, and liberals have never learned; there is an infinite capacity in human beings to defy expectations and act in their own interest without regard for the opinions or diktats of “experts.” The human mind and spirit are still unknowable - despite the efforts of “scientific socialism” to try and convince us to the contrary.

I knew that the Obama boomlet was media inspired and yet I ended up being seduced, stripped, and finally screwed by my own hubris. Perhaps only diehard supporters of Hillary actually believed she could carry it off but that’s no excuse to have joined the Greek chorus in lamenting her imminent demise or Obama’s inevitability. I could have held off until after, you know, people actually like voted.

But no, that would have put me behind the curve - left behind like roadkill on the internet punditry highway. And now, the whole world knows I’m an idiot. Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post linked to my article on Hillary’s exit from the campaign and the quote he uses from my article holds me up to some well deserved ridicule.

Oh well - live and learn and then live some more. There have been times that I have been right in my prognostication - something I rarely crow about. So when the crow comes back to roost on my dinner table in situations like this, there’s only one thing to say:

PLEASE PASS THE GREY POUPON…

Cross Posted at Right Wing Nuthouse.

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