So there I was, last Monday morning, being wheeled into a surgery theater, face up, wearing a stupid hairnet and dressed in the Mark I Model I Embarrassing Hospital Gown with my ass completely uncovered.  Thank God my ass was ass-down on the rolling gurney as it entered the cold room.  I ooched from the gurney onto the operating table and was told to scoot down, scoot down.  Then, clank-clank, two armrests were dropped down and I was splayed out like the fat BZ turkey I am, an IV already attached.  Down came the mask and I was asked to breathe deeply.  I seem to recall taking three deep breaths.  Nighty-night.

About 75 minutes later, my dream featured someone talking to me from above.  “Open your eyes,” my protagonist said.  Eventually I did so.  “A better life through chemicals,” I thought.  I was literally feeling no pain.  Then.

My point is, I’m going to be horizontal for the next few weeks as I am supposed to stay off my foot, the subject of some ongoing and worsening problems.  The drugs are fairly serious anti-inflammatory and pain meds.  Some hours they work well, some hours not so much.  I won’t be able to place weight down for about six weeks.  Until then I “work” from the lounger in the living room.  Work, live and sleep there.  The laptop is on an adjacent tray table which I move to my lap until the thighs get too hot.  Getting to the bathroom is an ordeal; first with crutches and now with a rented knee scooter.  The drugs make me woggy or lucid, just depending.  I sleep when I can.

As a consequence, I spend a lot of time on the confuser, texting, reading and watching television.  I’ve found programs I didn’t know exist.  It’s also given me time to reflect on some political machinations involving the presidential race.

It has been presumed this year and last that Hillary Rodham Clinton is the Demorat candidate for president.  Much of this is because it is Clinton’s “turn” and she has “paid her dues.”

Like Tammy Wynette, Hillary stood by her man whilst he swived his way through hordes (Linda Tripp alleges over 1,000) of jaded strumpets.  She did it all not because she enjoyed being the butt of fuck, blue dress and fellatio jokes, but because she recognized the inherent power that William Jefferson Clinton possessed.  She knew that, if played properly, she could ride on Bill’s coat-tails from the periphery of power to real personal political power.

But just when you may have thought it was “her time,” some pesky things have gotten in the way.  Like Trey Gowdy, some emails, some security and server concerns, four American deaths at the Benghazi consulate and the Clinton lies that began immediately thereafter.  When Hillary provided immediate excuses for the terrorists killing our Americans, she declared a further and more pointed open season on the United States.

On the other hand, there is this:

It’s pretty obvious the DNC has done its level best to bury the Demorat debates on the weekends, but this debate was even more “buried” due to the three-day weekend.  Conventional wisdom is that the less Hillary is exposed — because “it’s her turn” — the lesser a chance of her being challenged or damaged.  The problem with that, recently revealed, is that she has been losing points in the polls whilst Sanders has been gaining.  Uh-oh.  Time to push Hillary more towards Front Street.  Sort of.  But not too much.

It was simply assumed Hillary would win Iowa and perhaps New Hampshire.  Now, Sanders is looking strong in New Hampshire.  Hillary is being overcome by the self-described Socialist Demorat.  And a doddering one at that, with wild hair and a funny accent.

Further, Hillary’s husband is doing her no favors thanks to Trump’s recent focus.  It also doesn’t help — though it makes me laugh abundantly — that the top recent Google search question is “will Hillary Clinton get prosecuted?”

So began to think further: what if Hillary loses Iowa and New Hampshire to Sanders?  What if he actually gets stronger and not weaker?  What if Hillary is actually indicted?

We know that Martin O’Malley isn’t pulling numbers.  I would also submit that Sanders is a Nutjob of the First Order whose mind doesn’t operate in reality.  The DNC won’t kill SuperPacs just for Bernie nor will they eschew corporate cash.

Who or what is left?

Will the DNC pull a Biden out of its hat?  An Al Gore?  Maybe even a Jim Webb?

What if Hillary really does go back to her unappealing 2008 days?

Moreover, can the GOP manage to coalesce around one candidate and, further, can that chosen candidate beat a Demorat?

BZ