It’s rare (never) that I write about politics. It might seem odd because we’re in the middle of the preliminary voting for the 2009 Presidential Candidates. I guess the reason is because 1. Politics is hard to follow 2. Politics is for quitters, and I just don’t support that, or do I?

Today I wanted to give you an update of the 2009 Presidential Candidate Quitters:

Fred Thompson, Republican - You know, District Attorney Arthur Branch “Law & Order”? Well he was the one of the first to officially drop out of the race for President late in the game, January 22, 2008. I really wanted to like him. I really wanted to vote for him, simply because I thought voting in a “Law & Order” guy would be rad. After all, he makes good choices on the show, right? The only problem was, he was a total douche. Oh I still like him, but his views are kinda whacked and he kinda didn’t even run.

Dennis Kucinich, Democrat - Okay, I have to admit it. I . . . I don’t really know a dang thing about this guy other than he thought the U.S. shouldn’t continue to support an embargo against Cuba. I also know that many people I’ve heard talk about Kucinich didn’t really take him seriously. I also know how to pronounce Kucinich (ku-sin-itch). Wow, alright. I guess I know three things about Dennis Kucinich. Oh wait! I know four things, because I also know he dropped out of the Presidential race on January 25, 2008.

Rudy Giuliani, Republican - He’s the former New York City Mayor. He was in charge and taking charge after 9/11, how could we forget, it’s all he talks about in his campaign, and it was working too, until America stopped focusing on our National Security and started worrying more about the state of our economy. Somehow “Remember when I helped after 9/11″ doesn’t sound like a great pitch for “Help us with our economy right now, in 2008.” Combine that fact with the fact that all these shady buisiness and political deals have come out about him, not to mention cheating and banking millions after and because of 9/11 didn’t help either. It’s actually not technically official, but they did announce that Rudy was going to drop out today.

UPDATE: John Edwards, Democrat - I just found out that Edwards also bowed out of the race today, I think he made his announcement before Giuliani. I actually really liked Edwards. He had some good ideas and I kinda share his views on a lot of things. I think he could have been a great contender. People are, of course, speculating that since he’s dropped out, if Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama wins the Presidential Election they should put him in as Vice President. Not a bad idea, but so far he hasn’t made any move to endorse either of them.

PS Just thinking aloud, but even if you take away the fact that Mike Huckabee, Republican candidate, is very screwy and if he actually gets voted President he plans on trying to make the Constitution of the United States of America more mirror what he thinks his God would want, rather than stand by our actual Constitution, the mere fact that his name is Huckabee just loses my vote. Do you actually think people will take America seriously with President Huckabee? I sure don’t heart that Huckabee.