In yesterday’s primary elections in New Hampshire, the winners represented the absolute worst case scenario for a national general election: McCain and Clinton.

My problems with Hillary Clinton are, of course, obvious. She is a politician’s politician, willing to say or do anything to win an election. She’s also got no executive experience as an elected official — being the first lady doesn’t count as executive experience any more than being a pilot’s wife would allow a woman to count her husband’s flight time as her own in applying for a pilot’s license. Ordinarily, the lack of executive experience wouldn’t bother me (I’d be willing to consider voting for any number of other senators), but because Clinton’s campaign is very actively pushing her time in the White House as relevant, it makes me considerably uneasy.

McCain, of course, gets no support for me because his name appears on the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act, also known as the McCain-Feingold “What First Amendment?” Act. Of course, many senators voted for this absolute piece of trash bill, but McCain put his name on it. Even if I supported him on every other issue (which I don’t), that alone would be enough to keep me from voting for him.

All in all, a general election in which McCain faced off against Clinton would be a sure-fire way to get me to pick a third-party candidate. I haven’t made up my mind who I want to vote for, but I have made up my mind who I don’t want to vote for, and McCain and Clinton are tops on that list.

[UPDATE: Oops. I saved this post rather than publishing it originally.]