IBP will be welcoming a number of guest bloggers in the coming months to report on the 2008 Presidential campaign, including the venerable C.W. Eversham, who has reported on every American presidential campaign since Dwight Eisenhower's re-election in 1956. No less an authority than author, Theodore White, once dubbed Eversham as "the crustiness on the American political baguette."
I had intended to cover tonight's Republican primary on site. However, it is snowing here in Michigan. For those of you who have not been exposed to Michigan, it is a desolate landscape that progress forgot, strewn with the reddish-brown twisted hulks of abandoned factories to which workers will never return. My experience with Michigan politics informs me that monies intended for snow removal never found their intended destination. I will not be venturing out under these conditions. Doubtful that I could get my feet warm.My sense of the electorate is that the young Romney will find further proof tonight that a good head of hair, a square jaw and a full wallet, even in these regrettable times, are not sufficient qualifications to be the leader of the free world. Frankly, I never cared for his father. George was one of these puffed up roosters, who liked to hold court, and when I set him straight on a few things, he attempted to have me thrown off the press train. I can't recall a more enjoyable night then writing the obituary on George's presidential run, which I concluded with a pithy, "Good riddance."
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