Obama will get my vote on Tuesday and, if the D nominee, my vote in November.  I will never vote for Hillary.  Ever.  The GOP could run Beelzebub and I still wouldn't vote for her.

Crocodile tears.

The best chance of keeping the GOP coalition alive one more time is having Hillary be the Dem nominee.

My Iowa prediction is that it will be Obama for the Dems and Huckabee for the GOP, but that Hillary and Romney will be closer seconds than the most recent polls predicted.  Ron Paul will do okay, maybe 4th.  I think Thompson will come in fifth or lower and will practically drop out of the race after tonight's results.

I think a Giuliani/Huckabee ticket would be pretty tough for the Dems to beat, actually.  Rudy would appeal to the security types and Huckabee would give the Christianists a reason to come to the polls.

Iowa is one of the biggest corn producing states, afterall.  I wish the bill included greater incentives for renewables, wind, solar, etc.

I'm a moderate from the bluest state (Mass.) -- Catholic, social liberal, but fiscal conservative (yes, I voted for Romney as governor) -- and I found the Huckabee ad somewhat offensive.  The reason I reacted to it the way I did is that it is a blatantly political ad in Merry Christmas/Christian drag.  The ad purports to just be a holiday greeting, nay, a Christmas greeting, from Huckabee to the people of Iowa but its sole purpose is to remind people which of the candidates out there has Jesus' back.  The involvement of Jesus' name in a blatantly political move makes me sit up and say, "this has just gone too far."

With respect to the wall between church and state, whoever cited the origin as being in the letter from Jefferson is right.  It is not found in the Constitution, but the SCT has held certain acts of government officials as breaching the Establishment Clause (government shall not establish a religion).

It's perfectly within Huckabee's right to use crosses in his ads or dance with snakes or even claim that the Baby Jesus would vote for him if he could, but it's also within my right to be offended and vow to not put another Fundy in the White House.

I think it would be easier for me to list the places I don't want to visit!

Yes, the last thing we should want is a President with prior substance abuse problems.  I wonder if you were this vocal about your position in 2000 and 2004?

When Ron Paul said that he thought US policy created a blowback scenario resulting in 9/11, Giuliani acted like he had never heard someone say that the US government policy was partly to blame for the pre-9/11 global environment.

Now, however, Rudy has accepted the endorsement of a man who, while smoke was still billowing out of the WTC, said on national TV that Americans (Americans themselves, like gays, abortion rights advocates, the ACLU, feminists, etc., no blame was assigned to government policy) were the root cause of 9/11.

In the same time period, Rudy was dressing in drag for comedy sketches, living with a gay couple he said he'd marry once it became legal, and separating from his second wife on live TV while engaging in an adulterous affair with his then-mistress.

I think somehow the wormhole of reality just folded in on itself and exploded.

Dodd 49
Obama 48
Clinton 48
Kucinich??? was next... must be my opinion on stem cells

Highest GOPer for me was Giuliani with 39.

I didn't say I trusted Iran with the bomb.  But I echo illy's point that a pre-emptive attack on Iran could have far reaching implications.  And seeing this administration's incompetence in just about every arena, I suspect they'll manage to make matters worse if they attack Iran.

Sadly, as low a bar as the Carter administration set, this set of Bush clowns can't even get over it.

Are you saying that the US's international standing and diplomatic power under Condi Rice are better than under Cyrus Vance or Ed Muskie?  Talk about having (pro-)Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Not that I feel any sympathy for Karen Hughes, but she had a pretty impossible job.  If you liken her job to being a car salesman, you can't blame her for dismal results when the only thing her boss produces are Edsels.