UPDATE: A poll has been added.
Dear Diary,
Today was another really confusing day. I'm glad at least you understand me. So I was trying to figure out why, despite totally sucking, Hillary Clinton is still my party's frontrunner for president in 2008. I just couldn't wrap my head around it, and I still can't. Unless it could be...
10. She's famous and has lots of money.
9. She fought (until she was opposed) for health care a long time ago.
8. Conservatives really hate her, though they also hate all other democrats now except Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller.
7. She disagrees with Joe Lieberman on at least a few issues we sort of care about.
6. We can show how progressive we are by...oh my God...supporting a woman for president. A woman???? Oh my God, what will we think of next?
5. She is certain to deliver the critical swing state of New York.
4. She's ready to take on the Bush administration as soon as they really, really piss her off.
3. She isn't easily swayed by polls, like the ones that ought to tell her her Iraq stance is retarded.
2. She might suck, but it's not like we have anyone who actually agrees with us on important issues, except maybe Feingold, Conyers, Kucinich, Lee, Jackson Jr., Gore, Nader...
1. We'd much rather have someone who could win our primary in a landslide than beat a republican in the actual presidential election.
So anyways, diary, I guess it all makes sense. It's just hard to believe we can't do any better. But at least the '08 election will be suspenseful...we still have no idea which republican Hillary will lose to.