I define a politico as someone interested in a political position or candidate enough to lie, to spew whoppers for the cause. Here's an example. On Bill Maher's HBO website, an innocent little Web poll asks the simple question, Of the Republicans listed, who do you think will get the GOP's nomination nod in '08? And a whopping majority of respondents chose the least likely candidate, Ron Paul.

I took the poll and chose Giuliani, because I believe a majority of registered Republicans are indeed stupid enough and morally corrupt enough to choose this vile excuse for a human being. Yes, even over good-looking Mitt Romney and expert politician John McCain.

But Ron Paul's supporters leapt to the site and voted for him, in droves:

Politicos!

Now, in another poll I would have voted for him too. I prefer him to the others. But he doesn't have much of a chance of winning. Do his supporters really believe he does?

Some days I just hate politics. The lying that goes on reaches down from the loftiest perch of the presidency and into the soul of the grubbiest, least significant voter.

Of course, the only hope Paul has is for people to lie like this, and other people believe that he has a chance, and then actually consider him, and then vote for him, in a mass domino cascade of copycat preference falsification. It's a slim chance. The slimmest. And it can only begin with a lie.

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