The United States has changed alot since 1974, so much so that it is entirely arguable that the film "Blazing Saddles" could not be made in America circa 2008. But that doesn't mean that it does not echo through the ages.
Last night's political earthquakes (plural) in Iowa brought to my mind two quotes from Mel Brook's comic masterpiece.
"What's a dazzling urbanite like you, doing in a rustic setting like this?"
and
"You've got to remember these are people of the land, the common clay of the New West, you know... Morons!"
I suspect that during the next few weeks of the OHuckabamabee campaigns, memories of another Brook's classic will also come to the fore. "Young Frankenstein"
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biggest winner? MIKE... (Bloomberg) if folks want "change" you can't get any more different (including either a woman or a black man) than a Jewish Bachelor Billionaire Independent.
biggest loser? professional 'race/victim' hustlers (Jackson, Sharpton)
honorable mention? (emphasis on "Honorable") the U.S.A. (where a dazzling urbanite of african descent, literally, can win a political race in one of the whitest, most rural states in the Union)
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the GOP South Carolina race on the 19th is all to themselves as the DEMs SC race is on the 26th, which means that the media will have to decide how much attention to give Michigan on the 15th (possible Romney victory there, if McCain wins New Hampshire, then the first 3 GOP races may have 3 different winners) thus making South Carolina (reagan's, w's "firewall" state and scene of McCain's most bitter political memory) even more important. and then Florida 10 days later. (a long long time in today's politics)
96 Hours 'til New Hampshire's polls open. "Let the blood-letting continue"!
