There are a lot of reasons I'm doing my best not to wade too deeply into primary politics. One is simply that it's very early and I imagine the contours of debate will have shifted significantly by the time the Fall rolls around and things get serious. Another is the rather annoying tendency of people to assume all kinds of nefarious motives whenever I do (or, at times, when I don't). I actually don't have any desire to curry favor with campaigns or candidates, and nor do I have any personal allegiance to any campaign. Third, I generally just have no desire to start tearing down Democratic candidates based on the stupid shit which the media focuses on at this point in the campaign.
Mostly, though, it's difficult to talk about the primary because it's difficult to disentangle two largely separate issues. One is who do I think would make the Best Preznit Evah. Two is who is the most electable. They aren't completely separate, of course, but they aren't the same either. It's rather vital to the future of the country, and the world, that somebody NotRepublican gets elected in '08, so electability is important. On the other hand, I consider myself (and everyone else) to be utterly unqualified to pass judgment on that issue, and find that even going down that path leads one to madness.
So that leaves the first issue, who do I think would make the Best Preznit Evah? I really don't know, and even if I did have a strong opinion I'm not sure it matters all that much. If I ever do make up my mind on that count I'd probably say so, but again it doesn't seem to be especially important.
