Regardless of political affiliation or agenda, one cannot deny that this political season has been one of intense scrutiny and has kept both republicans and democrats on the edges of their seats. If you’re a republican, you may have kept an eye on the democrat nominations to see who will be running against the republican nominee, John McCain. If you’re a democrat, you are probably glued to the edge of your seat watching every primary and caucus like it’s an inevitable train wreck in the making (especially in light of recent news).

For those of you who have read my husband’s blog, you probably know that we are Ron Paul fans. Since Ron Paul will not be the republican nominee (shocker I know), we have to decide who to throw our support to. This has been a really interesting political season for us on many counts.

1. For the first time in history the top contenders for a party nomination are either a woman or an African American.

2. Greg and I attended our first political rally.

3. Ron Paul was in the running and has some interesting ideas for change in the government (say goodbye to income tax!!)

4. Record numbers of people have showed up to vote in primaries for the person they think is best suited to be our next president.

Okay, now I need to put a disclaimer in here. You can write me all the comments you want, but if you don’t like what I have to say, just know that we are going to have to agree to disagree. I will be fair and listen to your points and if there is any good reason or sound logic, you may persuade me to change my view. Please know beforehand that I have become very convinced in my beliefs as of this point and attempting to change my mind may in fact bring untoward pain and suffering upon you in the form of tickle attacks, or if you do not live nearby, many superpokes on Facebook. That being said, the information you are about to read is not originally mine but rather that of writers much more prolific than I. You can read them on www.cnn.com. I’m pissed off and want to comment about it to the general world so there you go.

Rewind to January of this year. Primary season was gearing up to begin and Bill Richardson was still living in the delusion that he actually had a chance at being President. Florida and Michigan thought they would be smart and move their primaries before the instituted date that the DNC set up (if you don’t know what the DNC is then just stop reading now- no I’m just kidding, it’s the Democratic National Convention). As a penalty for Michigan and Florida making a power play, the DNC (you should know what that is now, if not, stop reading-really) fined both states by taking away their delegates. This move could have, and should have, been anticipated by these power hungry states.

Move to mid-January. Michigan and Florida hold their elections and the voters, the candidates, the DNC and everyone else in the the world who care at all about US politics know that these delegates have been stripped from the states and voters turn out to cast their votes anyway. Florida gives the win to Hillary with Obama winning a much smaller portion of delegates (Mind you neither campaigned there…although Hillary did do some fund raising that was apparently sanctioned by the DNC). Michigan is an entirely different story. Obama opts not to put his name on the ballot and Hillary (shocker of shockers!) won the state with some ridiculously high vote count of like 68%. At the time the candidates agreed not to campaign in either state to honor the decision of the DNC.

…to be continued