Mrs Robinson

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon,
Going to the candidates debate ...

A presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Guiliani would give us a choice between two candidates completely unqualified to be president based on their experience and personal integrity. This would be the ultimate "lessor of two evils" election. Maybe our worst option since Nixon-Kennedy.

Here's a look at some of the other possible elections.

The polar opposite of this would be a race between two "nice" guys - Obama vs. Huckabee. They also lack experience but at least we would not have to listen to Hillary and Rudy shriek at each other for months.

If somehow Iraq becomes the central issue and we want to elect a president that actually has some ideas regarding Irag and some foreign policy experience then the choice could be McCain vs. Biden. Both of these candidates at least thought about what to do next in Iraq.

If the election becomes a choice between management and leadership skills and experience then Mitt Romney becomes the obvious Republican choice. For the Dems the choice is less obvious. If you were an investor in a Fortune 500 company which one of the Democratic candidates would you want to run that company? The answer may be Bill Richardson or perhaps John Edwards.

If each party was most concerned about electability then they would each choice a white, male, Protestant that was either a sitting president, governor, former vice president or war hero and was not from the north-east. Did you know that there since World War 2 we have elected only one senator, only one North-Easterner and only one person who was not a Protestant? All three exceptions were JFK, 1960.

This 'electability' eliminates all of the Senators and Guiliani. It also eliminates Romney. That leaves Bill Richardson vs. Mick Huckabee. I could live with that choice.