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."
When people ask me to describe South Carolina, I ask them if they have ever taken a sauna bath with a group of toothless men attempting to in some way in their conversation approximate the English language. The answer is usually in the negative for which I tell them they may thank their lucky stars.
The laughably dubbed "Palmetto State" has already pronounced its verdict in the GOP primary. Governor Huckabee continued on the path to the anonymity he so richly deserves, despite wrapping himself in the Confederate flag. Even that transparent shameless tactic was not enough to garner him a victory in this hotbed of succession. Young Romney was similarly unsuccessful, proving that for their many faults, the low rent back country intellect of South Carolinians is superior to that of the Michigan ignoramuses and Nevada soddomites in ferreting out an empty suit with a full head of hair and a bulging wallet. I never cared for his father, George, either; had me thrown off the press train over forty years ago for calling him on one of his positions.
As for the Democratic primary, I will be keeping my head low these next few days. Mrs. Nixon seems intent on whipping up a race riot with her code words, and experience has taught me that it is best not to be in the area when one of those commences, and that is a philosophy which has stood me in good stead.
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