I am almost sorry Obama released the long form of his birth certificate - although the short form he released in 2008 (which was the first time, Donald Trump notwithstanding) is just as legal. I loved the Birthers and their fantasy that they weren't questioning Obama's legitimacy because he is Black - why I am sure that many of them would like to see Romney's certificate, after all he is a Mormon and they are furriners in the eyes of many religious fundies. Of course, now Trump is saying that Obama was a poor student. I guess Harvard's law school gives out magna cum laude diplomas to anyone who can afford the tuition. But, Trump, a long-time Republican (if you don't count his being a registered Democrat 2001-2008) is currently at the top of the Republican candidate list based on his many lies. And I thought he would make an admirable opponent for Obama.
His foreign policy statements alone would have made the campaign highly entertaining. Evidently, all we have to do to lower the price of oil is to tell OPEC to lower the price of oil. Those Arabs just need some stern and straightforward talk to put them in their place. And that pesky debt ceiling need not be raised, we just need to cut a deal with our creditors - hey China, cut us some slack or we will stop buying your cheap goods and some guys from Brooklyn will come to your house and break things. But I now doubt that he will be the nominee, so comedians will be crying at this loss of such great material.
Palin, who doesn't seem to be popular with much of anyone except those who think that an undrugged moose will stand still while being shot at 5 times, seems unlikely to run. Michele Bachmann doesn't seem to have the support to push her to the top leaving us with no one to rewrite our history to suit her loony fantasies.
Newt - well, I don't see how he could in good conscience accept the nomination since he is so patriotic it forces him to commit adultery nor could we live with ourselves if we forced the nation's highest office on him. What would wife number 3 think about us, and who would be wife number 4? Besides, he is still trying to explain how Obama is going to implement an atheistic Islamic theocracy in this country - where we would have to bow down to the God that they don't believe in.
Huckabee confuses Kenya with Indonesia, the British for the Dutch and Mau Maus for Sukarno's people, so as president he would have invaded Liechtenstein instead of Afghanistan. And he evidently believes that colonialism - where one country invades another, oppresses that country's people and siphons off all of their natural resources - is a good thing. So, he obviously believes our Founding Fathers made a big mistake when they resorted to anti-colonialism back in the 1700s.
The only decent candidate - now that Haley Barbour has decided that there are too many Tea Party nutjobs to have to please to win the nomination - is Mitt Romney. The guy who created universal healthcare for Massachusetts, which he now hates (although the folks in that state seem to like it a lot), hasn't been absolutely hypocritical. And, he leans more to the moderate side, so he hasn't a chance.
So, who does that leave? Paul Ryan. He is a courageous man who put forth a budget that got him booed by his own supporters. He is against raising the debt ceiling, although his budget calls for adding $2 billion to our debt in 2012 and up to $7 billion more by 2022. Evidently, he has a lot in common with David Copperfield and can use magic to accomplish 2 contradictory things. He wants to give vouchers to old people to buy insurance from private companies, because they love to give good rates to people who are most likely to have preexisting conditions. And, he would only do that to people who are currently under 55, because he obviously hates 54 year olds. This is a man who is proud of his hypocrisy and doesn't make wild promises about invading Libya and basically stealing their oil. So, I nominate Paul. Trump could be his VP so that the comedians would still have someone they can make fun of. Ryan/Trump in 2012. Or, even better, Glen Beck and Ann Coulter - you get the best of wild eyed lunacy, venomous lies and mean spirited policies - she wants us to invade countries and force them into Christianity (wasn't that one of the Beatitudes) while he believes helping the poor leads to communism.
I look forward to next year to see if my candidates prevail.
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