I'm Mopping the Floor & It's Boring

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Okay, so one of the podcasts I religiously frequent is called the Slate Political Gabfest. It's put on every Friday by Slate Magazine, and it consists of the mocking curmudgeon David Plotz, the bubbly Emily Bazelon, and the wonkiest wonkmeister John Dickerson. The three of them make fun of each other, dish about politics as though it were a soap opera, and make fun of each other a little more. Somewhere in in the midst of their snorting they make more insightful commentary than you would hear in a hundred thousand years on planet tv-land.
So this weekend David made what I think is the most awesomest analogy about the state of the two party's nomination races.

On the Republican side you have John McCain, who is a child weathering the awful divorce of his parents three-way marriage. (presumably the neocons, the theocons, and the anti-tax crowd, although I call it a four-way marriage and name one of the co-spouses "single-issue xenophobes")

Meanwhile the Democrats have these two really hot girlfriends (or boyfriends) and they can't decide which one is hotter.