Oh, it's Tuesday, isn't it?

Having been out of the country for two weeks -- and nearly incommunicado for most of that time -- I lost track of U.S. politics, but it seems like y'all kept things interesting in my absence.

As I had predicted from the get-go, liberals would keep giving Crazy Cousin John the softball treatment right up until he had the GOP nomination locked, and then they'd unleash the dirt machine. Don't say you weren't warned.

On the Democratic side, it looks like Hillary's got it nailed, despite Obama's surging popularity. If she's managed to hang in this far, she's not going to blow it now.

But ask me if I care. I don't. I really don't.