The price you pay to play the game

Barring a gubernatorial veto, the early presidential primaries are coming to Alabama in 2008, and I love it. Finally, our state will get to be inundated by power-hungry politicians and saturated with vitriolic attack ads and filled to the brim with stump speeches packed with infuriatingly transparent pandering and meaningless soundbites and hollow promises and... um...

There was a reason I liked this idea, right?