Pick A Good One

It is getting to be that time of year in which most of the political news will be about the upcoming 2012 election.

President Obama is hoping to raise a billion dollars for his re-election campaign. However, this time around, Obama has a little problem: his record. Unemployment is around 9 per-cent. The “recovery” is sluggish at best. He promised to get us out of Iraq, but instead kept us there and went into Libya for good measure. Gitmo is still open, by the way. Of course, Gas is at four dollars a gallon.

The kindest thing you can say about Obama’s performance as President is that it has been dismal. He had a chance to lead in the budget debate but instead chose to demagogue it. He seems to be saying “what crisis?” He wants continued investment in America, because he doesn’t want to see an America in which old people perish driving over a bridge that collapses. Obama is the wrong man at the wrong time saying the wrong things in the wrong way.

Despite his less than stellar performance as President, he will raise a lot of money for his re-election and has the incumbency on his side. He will not have an opponent in the Democratic primaries, which means his party will be unified behind him.

The Republicans are in their own version of “Waiting For Godot”. They are hoping for the second coming of Ronald Reagan. Good luck with that.

I am on record stating Mitt Romney is the only other person that could be President on 1/21/13. He has money, success, and experience.

It is not that I am Rah-Rah Romney. Romney is seen as the “second place” finisher the last time around and Republicans have nominated the “next line” every time with the exception of 1964 and 1976.

The only problem is he may not be able to win any of the Republican primaries. One reason is due to “Romney Care” which is the state mandated healthcare in Massachusetts. His response to this is to deny he was ever in Massachusetts, which is problematic seeing he was once the governor.

The second reason Romney may not win the Republican nomination is that he is a Mormon. Being prejudice against a Mormon is one of the few acceptable bigotries remaining in which both Evangelical Christian Conservatives and Liberal Agnostics can attack a man’s religion without fear of getting a cultural frowny face. It probably would have been better if Romney was a “Muslim Mormon” (A man on a jihad for more wives!). Or a member of a church where the pastor is an anti-Semitic creep that curses America.

Due to this, some other candidates have started bubbling up. One is Donald Trump, who I wrote about last week. Good points about Trump: you never have to wonder what is on his mind. Bad point about Trump: what is on his mind. I’ll say this about Trump: he has taken egotism to a whole new level of performance art.

Here are some quick bullet points on some of the others.

*Michelle Bachman: A poor man’s Sarah Palin.

*Sarah Palin: A Michelle Bachman that knows somebody.

*Tim Pawlenty: If Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line, has does Pawlenty win the nomination when nobody knows who he is?

*Jeb Bush: Wrong last name. Will always be remembered as the Bush who should have been President.

*The Players in AAA: Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, and Bobby Jindal: The future of the Republican Party. Will probably wait it out.

*Mike Huckabee: Doesn’t seem to want it. Putting the weight back on.


All of these people lose to Obama in polling done now. That’s the rub-the election isn’t today and most people, despite what us political junkies believe, do not eat and breathe politics and haven’t focused on the 2012.

The GOP needs to remember that it is still early in the count and to pick a good one.