Romney's money and Obama's high-powered endorsements went for naught in Florida. Hillary and McCain bask in Florida sun ...

No Florida Flowers in Romney's Inexhaustible Money Tree

And Teddy's Endorsement Didn't Bring Obama Closer than 20 Percentage Points Behind Hillary

Well, as the final tallies are rolling in, Romney's money tree and Obama's high-powered endorsements surely did not bring home the bacon in my quasi-home state ...

And more than ever, my New Year's Day prediction looks like a likelihood rather than a long-shot.

As much as I like Mike Huckabee, I surely can live with either Hillary or John McCain. Both abhor the torture in/at places like Abu-Ghraib and Guantanamo and both aren't super-phobic about Mexican workers who have crossed into America to fill a sad void left by an economy in a shambles.

Look for Teddy to be endorsing both after they have wrapped up their parties' nominations. Yes, I would prefer that Hillary was pro-life and that Admiral McCain's son was less blinded by his unflinching support of the "surge" in Iraq, but they are two good heads, either of whom could/would (I think) lead our country into navigating the troubled waters ahead.

Now, I have to find a new hobby besides politics for the months ahead until November 2008.

Thank God for the Super Bowl next Sunday! (What was "Super Tuesday" all about, anyway?)