I know I said this wouldn’t turn into a political type blog thing, but it’s an election year, and it seems like this one might be a particularly important one…and I know that they say that every election, but this time it’s true, really.

So the Mormon’s out which, after Tuesday, isn’t that big a surprise. All the way home yesterday (which is about a 75 minute commute) NPR was going on and on about how the conservative base still hasn’t gotten behind McCain and he needs them to win. My question is, does he?

Look, I already said that I think he’d beat Clinton in a general election. Oh, yeah I heard all the disgruntled Romneyites saying they’d vote for Hillary over McCain (and, of course, there was that Ann Coulter thing…) but that was a kneejerk reaction to their guy bowing out. As an aside, I found his “concession” speech rather graceful, except for the middle part where he felt the need to go on about how porn and gays were ruining the fabric of America….Anyway, who honestly believes that any proud, card carrying Republican is going to walk into a voting booth in November and actually pick any candidate with the name “Clinton.”

Look, I know she’s just as conservative as McCain, but it just isn’t going to happen in this world. Plus, McCain has already shown that he’s winning moderates and independents, something Hillary will have a hard time doing.

One thing that strikes me as funny is that, by and large, staunch conservatives feel betrayed by McCain because…as far as I can tell…he has some principles. He committed the cardinal sin of NOT VOTING FOR A TAX CUT WHEN IN TIME OF WAR, like, oh I don’t know, a real conservative (as opposed to a neo-con) would. Then, and this is the really crazy thing, he co-sponsored two bills with actual liberals. Dear god! We don’t want someone in the White House who actually has a history of working across the aisle!

Like I’ve said before, I’m not a McCain guy, but given the choice of him or Hillary…that’s tough.

Now Obama, there’s your (and by that I mean, my) candidate. Already we’re seeing a hint that he might be getting the better of Clinton, at least as far as money raising goes. Of course, Dems go with the whole (and decidedly more democratic) proportional delegate thing, so we’ve still got a ways to go (by the way, where would Romney be if the GOP did the same?). But I think a McCain, Obama election would be better for the country all the way around. You have a long time Washington politician who’s not really “loved” by his party vs. essentially, the most unpolitical presidential candidate you’re likely to get….