This is an excellent post.

Kucinich rallying cry: Every American deserves the same great healthcare that major league baseball players get!

On Ron Paul: "Paul is a great hitter in baseball. We played in 1981 and 1982 on the House Republican baseball team and he has great wrists!"

I'd like to see someone turn THIS into an Iraq hijack!

For anyone afraid to click, believe me, this is an almost entirely baseball-related post (i.e. what the candidates say and do about baseball) as opposed to something politicial in and of itself.

"I think John McCain is fizzling out by his own hand. John McCain, and I [say this] half-jokingly, but he really has become the John Rocker of Republican politics. He can't do that within the Republican Party and expect Republicans to love you and support you."
-Gov. Mike Huckabee, March 7, 2000

Huckabee also came down firmly for renovating Ray Winder Field, rather than building a new ballpark in Little Rock for the Arkansas Travelers.

Sam Brownback is a Cardinals fans, but not the ones in St. Louis, these Cardinals.

I think John McCain is fizzling out by his own hand.

Political Option J?

You don't know how deflating it is for me to find out Obama is a White Sox fan.

Well, that decides it: I'm throwing all my weight behind a Kucinich-Huckabee fusion ticket.

Alex - I'm not sure he's a fanatic about it. He was seen rooting for the Cubs in 2003 and has said he'd support them if they made the World Series. I didn't include it because, heck, by the time I got all the way to Obama I was getting pretty loopy.

From experience, Arkansas is mostly Cardinals fans, some Braves fans, and minimal Cubs fans in the northern part of the state, and mostly Braves fans, some Cardinals fans, and smattered Cubs and Astros fans in the south.

I always thought Obama was more a Cubs fan, even though his Illinois legislative district was on the South Side. (Just like when he transferred from Occidental to Columbia, knowing it's a lot easier to move up the political ladder with Ivy League ties...Barack knows where his bread is buttered.)

Fred Thompson

Declared rooting interest: None that I could find, but then again, he's not very big on declaring. Born in Alabama, raised in Tennessee, but a longtime inside-the-beltway resident, he may be a Cardinals, Braves, or Nationals fan. As with everything else, Thompson the baseball fan seems to be an inkblot test in which we all see that we want to see.

Record: Despite appearing in stellar NASCAR, football, and, um, zebra racing films, Thompson has never played a role in a baseball movie, which only goes to support the charges that Thompson suffers from inexperience. Recently declared a distant second to New York Giant Bobby Thompson as the Thompson most likely to be remembered by history.

Analysis: About as weak a baseball record as any candidate in the field. If I was a one-issue voter and that issue was baseball, Fred would not be getting my support. He's not getting my support anyway, but that's neither here nor there.

Uh, it's Bobby Thomson, no 'p." BTW, he was a one-time borough councilman in Watchung, N.J. (also the hometown of Laura Prepon, FWIW).

rather than building a new ballpark in Little Rock for the Arkansas Travelers.

That's North Little Rock, thank you -- a separate city.

Though for all I know a proposal may have been on the table at some point to build the new park south of the river.

The fact that Ron Paul used to deliver milk to Honus Wagner is about the coolest thing I've heard about any of the presidential candidates.

The fact that Ron Paul used to deliver milk to Honus Wagner is about the coolest thing I've heard about any of the presidential candidates.

Is that some unseemly euphemism with which I'm not acquainted?

Fred Thompson is forming an exploratory committee to consider the possibility of rooting for the Cardinals and test the waters. We should have a decision on his affiliation by 2009.

Mitt Romney is a Red Sox fan if you want him to be. Otherwise he's a Tigers fan. Or a Dodgers fan. Or a Yankees fan. It depends on what you want.

Rudy Giuliani is firmly a Yankees fan. If you don't like the Yankees, that just means you have forgotten about 9/11. Since 9/11 we should all be Yankees fans or we will be appeasing the terrorists.

John McCain is a Diamondbacks fan who had the audacity to criticize the Eric Byrnes signing, so no one likes him anymore.

Tom Tancredo is a fan of the Tom Yawkey-era Red Sox.

Ron Paul doesn't believe in baseball because it is a team sport. Too socialist.

Hillary Clinton has been a lifelong Cubs fan until she became a lifelong Yankees fan and if you criticize her about that you are part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Barack Obama is a Cubs fan and has about as much experience winning big contests.

Joe Biden is the perfect Phillies fan - loud-mouthed, boorish, can't win the big one.

John Edwards is a Pirates fan because he champions the poor and downtrodden.

Bill Richardson is an A's fan - they both look good on paper, but can't win it all.

Dennis Kucinich is an Eddie Gaedel fan.

Fred Thompson is forming an exploratory committee to consider the possibility of rooting for the Cardinals and test the waters. We should have a decision on his affiliation by 2009.

Fortunately, he's still slated to play D.A. Arthur Branch in the special mini-series, "Law & Order: Three Nights In August."

absent some sort of King Ralph scenario, he won’t be winning the presidency in 2008

In that King Ralph scenario, everyone in the U.S. to the right of Angela Davis dies of West Nile flu.