Exciting news from the primaries this week. John McCain is about guaranteed the Republican nomination (though Huckabee still made a brilliant appearance on The Colbert Report.) Clinton and Obama are about tied for the number of states they’ve carried, but Clinton is winning more delegates.

I’m still pulling for Obama to come out ahead on this one. The last thing I want to see is “Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton” for 24 years. It’s time to set aside the culture wars of the 1960s. I am ready for a new generation to start taking over Washington.

I’m far more excited, though, about John McCain trouncing Mitt Romney. I have admired McCain in the Senate for years, and there is nobody more qualified to clean up the mess that his 2000 rival has left for us. Romney is too packaged and too opportunistic for me to ever trust him as a solid leader in a time of national crisis. McCain is a libertarian rock star.

If the general election comes down to Obama vs McCain, I will have some soul-searching to do; I’ll also pay close attention to whom they choose for their running mates and what campaign promises they make loudly. But if the Democrats want to make this a really easy choice for me, they’ll elect Hillary. If she’s the nominee, I know exactly which way this independent vote will swing.