Behind a very nice woman (we stood out in the cold quite a while before we could get in).

She was an Obama supporter. I was an Edwards supporter, then decided if he was throwing in the towel, that Hillary was my choice. This has mostly to do with I think she has a better health care plan, plus I instinctively distrust people with some flash in the pan message of "hope" that doesn't really SAY anything. I want nuts and bolts policy plans to go on when I support a candidate. I instinctively distrust pretty speeches and grand messages. To me they're all crap. Show me the money, and show me the plan.

Like P. J. O'Rourke used to say (as much as I got sick of him when he got so right wing in the runup to the Iraq War) I want the quiet, boring policy wonk as opposed to the stirring emotionally-manipulating candidate.

Kennedyesque, MLK-esque, "rock star" all a big turnoff for me. That's not to say I won't support him in the general, however.

Anyway, I got in a conversation with this woman. Told her about all the young programmers who are Libertarians in my programming shop who were going out to caucus tonight in the Republican caucus for Ron Paul. And if Ron Paul cannot be their candidate, they'll throw their support to Obama.

Frankly, at this point, I distrust any candidate with "crossover" appeal - to paraphrase the late great Steve Gilliard, I don't want to "work" with Republicans, I want to CRUSH them. Grind them down in the dirt, and make them see the evil they've done to this country. Bipartisanship really IS date rape. Bleah.

So anyway, we had a friendly little conversation, she was marvelling at the fact the "young Libertarians", which typically have always voted Republican, would cross over the line and vote for a Dem candidate, and I said "I think at this point the American people would vote for a CABBAGE in preference to what we've had for the last eight years." And she laughed and said the cabbage is smarter than W, at least knows how to PHOTOSYNTHESIZE.

Note to Obama supporters - I am NOT comparing your candidate to a cabbage..........I think he's a fine man and a great candidate, and I'll vote for him if he gets the nomination. But Hill's still my girl, at this point.

'Nuff said.