At least the GOP isn't thrilled about their candidates.

[Elspeth]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/weekinreview/16nagourney.html?_r=1&ref=weekinreview&oref=slogin

(This could explain why they want Hillary Clinton to be the nominee. It's not because she'd be so easy to beat; it's that she'd provide the right wing with some passion so they might actually come out to vote. The freepers would be voting against blow-job-getting Bill all over again.)

For the G.O.P., Falling in Love Is Hard to Do

By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: December 16, 2007

HERE’S another way Republican voters tend to be different from Democratic voters: They like — no, love — their presidential candidates. Not always, of course. But from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush to Dwight Eisenhower, Republicans voters have displayed a zeal for their candidates that Democrats could only envy.

Which is what makes this Republican presidential contest so striking. It is hard to think of another campaign when Republicans have seemed less excited about their choices. That was the unmistakable lesson of the rapid ascension in recent polls of Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, the latest in a line of Republican flavors of the month. A New York Times/CBS News poll last week found that none of the Republican candidates — not even the suddenly hot Mr. Huckabee — was viewed favorably by even half of Republican voters.

To some extent, this may be a one-year anomaly, a harsh judgment on a cast of candidates with each hobbled by some failing of character, ideology or record. It is also, no doubt, the latest sign of just how weary rank-and-file Republicans have become of their party. And several Republicans said this could change once the Republicans settle on a nominee, and particularly if the Democrats nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

But what is worrying Republicans these days is that this tepid rank-and-file reception to the best the party has to offer suggests that the Republican Party is hitting a wall after dominating American politics for most of the last 35 years. Republican voters are reacting to — or rather, not reacting to — a field of presidential candidates who have defined their candidacies with familiar, even musty, Republican promises, slogans and policies.

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. seven different flavors of vanella ice cream

in the end, it's still vanella ice cream.

[Vanje]

4. Except Vanilla ice cream dosnt invade small countries based on lies....

....or wire-tap citizens, or waterboard anyone. Vanilla ice cream dosnt steal elections.

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. It's hard to find the right combination...

of greed, bigotry, hypocrisy and warmongering to appeal to today's republican.

[Olney Blue]

3. Not only this year, Bush and Rove have likely squashed the next generation

of young republicans. They sold the GOP out, and polarized this country in a devastating way.

[Elspeth]

5. Let's hope so.

Maybe we'll have some time to restore sanity.