Short but sweet on this one:

HardBall Power Rankings 10 Nov 07

Please try and tell me that Mr. Hardball isn’t a shill for Hillary at this point.

And I realize that trying to mesh GOP and Dem candidates together on the same metric is a rough patch by any stretch… but try to give us a small break. For one, No. 9 - Bill Richardson - shouldn’t have even passed muster. Richardson is a radical who might make the KosKidz happy, but is by virtue of his almost vitriolic stand for a rapid retreat from the Middle East - and why is Biden in the bottom slot…? I don’t care much for his politics either, but he hasn’t been a total slouch in fund raising either.

Surely that slot could have been used for candidates with more traction, such as Democrat Dennis Kucinich or Libertarian-turned-Republican Ron Paul. Between the UFOs and the “Truther” conspiracy theorism… there’s more than enough fringe entertainment to go around.

But I think that this metric is a bit too broad - my eyes get screwed funny looking at this and trying to rationalize how *Edwards* is higher-ranked than Mitt Romney (who, while I dislike him as a candidate, is comparatively competing at a level a bit higher than Edwards, IMHO).

A better division would be to have the top five Dems and Republicans on one side and the other.

Maybe, something like this: (mind you, this won’t be as ‘purdy’ as the Hardball graphic above)




Seeker’s Superduper de Looper Rankings.

The Dems

The GOP

1

Hillary Clinton

1

Mitt Romney

2

B. Hussein Obama

2

Rudy Guliani

3

John Edwards

3

Fred Thompson

4

Joe Biden

4

Mike Huckabee

5

Dennis Kucinich

5

John McCain