Damn.

Edwards is out. So is Rudy.

I liked Edwards. A lot. He'll be back.

I also liked Rudy, though in a very different way — he was the one GOP candidate I thought Hillary could beat. And when it comes to Republicans, I'll take a pro-war/tough-on-crime one over a god/guns/gays one any day.

I'm terrified of a Hillary nomination because it would galvanize and mobilize the far right in way not seen since gay people tried to -- gasp! -- assert their right to actually live as families. Well, thank jebus that ludicrous notion got nipped in the bud, eh? And just for good measure, the united bigots of America gave us four more years of Bush while they were at it, because everyone knows dead soldiers, melting ice caps, and an economy in a tailspin are preferable to married gays.

Grrr.

Then again, there's always the chance that a Hillary nom would so outrage the right that they all simultaneously choke to death on their own bile. Is it too much to hope for?