Darling Nikki

 Prince, god rest his purple soul, once wrote a song with the title, Darling Nikki. I warn you before you click on the link that it is naughty. So naughty, in fact, that it was one of the very first to garner a warning sticker from the Parents Music Resource Center way back in 1984. Interestingly, there is a backward vocal track toward the end of the song that when played forward says, "Hello, how are you? Fine, fine, 'cause I know that the Lord is coming soon Coming, coming soon." I'm not guessing that Tipper Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore probably caught that subtlety, what with their minds being filled with the thoughts of becoming President one day. 

Al never became president. Some believe this was because of some malfeasance connected with ballots being dumped in swamps and eventually the Supreme Court got mixed up in it. When the ruling came down Al was out and George W was in. Then the World Trade Center came down and we went to war for more than a decade.

All because of the distractions created by that little ditty by Prince. 

Okay. Maybe it was a little bigger than the fourth track on Purple Rain.  

But I can't help but wonder if Al Gore had his mind on the big picture instead of getting Congress to put stickers on records, maybe things would have been different. No ballots in swamps. No Supreme Court ruling. Al wins and navigates the world through the troubled waters of the early twentieth century where peace and prosperity reigns. Purple. And he is able to focus on climate change, which was his central focus for all those years. 

Now Nikki Haley has bowed out of the Republican race for President. To say that she fought a good fight would be a little like saying that the Denver Broncos "fought a good fight" when they were beaten by the Miami Dolphins seventy to twenty this past season. The twenty points the Broncos did manage to score suggested that there was another team on the field that day. They brought their uniforms and everything. The just weren't ready to play in the same way the Dolphins did. 

In this analogy, Nikki Haley is being portrayed by the team from Denver. Her miniscule delegate count suggests that she was not able to withstand the ugly momentum of the MAGAts. And now she will be stepping aside to allow the matchup between old white guys to carry on at full volume. 

I suggest you try and drown it out with some Prince.