What if the GOP primaries take a post pattern aspect and become drawn out well beyond giga Tuesday? To my way of thinking it is not a bad thing because I think we need to "shake out" the bugs in this race anyway. Understandably, this is because I view the current front runners as a sure sign the GOP is headed too far left and I am not comfortable with that. the most "popular" candidates are not what I am looking for in a president.

Until today, I thought I might be alone in my opinion of the candidates in general and specifically about my thoughts on this year's early primaries.

If you think Iowa's wacky caucus rules make their choice unrepresentative, if you think Wyoming's caucus rules were too strict, if you think the independents of New Hampshire and the crossover Democrats of Michigan might make those states' choices somehow invalid... don't worry. You'll get your say (well, not all of you, but a lot of you). The Super Duper Tuesday states will be huge, and the Maryland-Virginia-D.C. votes a week later might even make a difference.

Whoever the Republican nominee is, he won't be a reflection of the quirky preferences of the early states. He'll have fought and won over a wide variety of political terrain.

The fact that we still have no clear front runner to me negates all of the national polls and solidifies the fact that it is still any body's race. It also vindicates what I said earlier about the early primaries this election cycle.

Finally, to my thinking, the longer the race goes without a clear front runner emerging, the more probable a Thompson nomination becomes. People are going to get sick of these other baubles as the conservative clear-coat wears off.