Blogging For Kicks

Usually when a woman speaks about frogs, she’s talking about all the Mr. Wrongs out in the dating world. As the graphic says, most of us feel you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince. Well, I happen to believe that applies to the world of politics, too.

Every time an election gets near, it seems potential candidates come out of the woodwork every day. That’s par for the course, I guess. This time - and I really don’t remember when it’s been this bad before - the candidates were being shoved in our faces the day after the 2004 election. It’s crazy.

What’s worse is the fact that these aren’t even people who have expressed an interest in running in 2008, just those others think might run, or are afraid will run. There have already been a lot of names brought up and sent back to the pond, and it’s only been a year. We have three more to go before we vote again, so I can only imagine how many there will be by then. I have the feeling pretty much every Senator and Representative, Governor and State Legislator, Hollywood actor and musician, and even newscasters will have been put out there, studied, critiqued, and shoved back by then.

I have been watching all this with a mixture of shock and bemusement. Shock because it started so early, and bemusement at the names and charges made so far. I honestly don’t know whether to be upset or laugh half the time. Is Hillary running? How about McCain? Rudy? Jeb? Condie? How about Lieberman, or The Donald? Warren, or Arnie? And that’s just from the first couple of months.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not interested in worrying about who’s going to run until a year or so before the actual election date. For goodness sake, we don’t even know if any of these people will still be around by then. Why worry about them until we know for sure they are running? I’m not going to try to predict who will or won’t run at this point. Once they start throwing their hats in the ring I’ll worry, but not now.

You see, I’ve never been big on kissing frogs. If it’s green, slimy, and warty I want no part of it. I am willing to keep my lips to myself until my Prince does show up, and then I’ll worry whether he’s the Prince for me or not. And I’m not going to start deciding who I want to vote for in 2008 when it’s that far out in the future. You guys keep doing all the frog kissing you want to, just don’t expect me to join you.