The Shilling Fields

Republicans are running around chasing their tails in an attempt to locate a potential presidential candidate who could ensure an Obama one-term presidency. Quaint, isn’t it? The choices are underwhelming as well as laughable. This time around Donald Trump would like everyone to believe he’s for real. Now he’s a “Birther” rather than a “jerker.”

Can you imagine Mr. Trump ruining, er, running the US of A? That thing he calls his hair would curl into an unrecognizable swirl the moment he would open the classified/private Intel all presidents receive when they begin their work  in the Oval Office.

Naw, don’t think he’s up for the job despite how much he has in common with wealthy dictators across the globe. Too many fights would occur during cabinet meetings and echoes of “You’re fired” would be a weekly refrain. Stay in the Bored, uh, Board Room, Mr. Trump. That’s where you belong. Besides, I hear the East Wing of the White House isn’t as plush as what you’re used to inhabiting. Too much history for one with decorating tastes of the nouveau riche.

Then there is the ever-sane in her own mind Michele Bachmann who announced today that she will make the decision to run for office (or not) by June. I won’t hold my breath on this one. She is way too Right of the Right to be taken seriously. So, how about good ole Newt Gingrich who holds family values close to his overly puffed-up chest. I just love how he has always danced around dumping divorce papers on his cancer-stricken then-wife as she sat in a hospital bed. His excuse? In his own words he claims he made mistakes because he is “too patriotic.”

Well then, if massive insensitivity is a form of patriotism no wonder Congress has become a seething snake pit over the last two years – more than usual.

There’s Mitt Romney. Nice looking. Articulate. Problem there is his own wise decision while Governor of Massachusetts to provide a functioning public health care system that was an example for what President Obama has signed into law, albeit with varying elements. Romney can back away from the similarities all he wants, but that is a sticking point in his potential candidacy. Try to get out of that one, sir.

Then there’s Sarah Palin. Hahahahahah! According to the “polls” she’s barely blipping on anyone’s radar these days. Just stay in Alaska, sweetie, and count your gold and silver.

There are others in the mix, but from how it looks to the general voting public in this early prediction cycle, the characters involved to date do not impress or exude more than the ability to raise money rather than raise the limping spirits of a GOP in disarray.

Hmmm. For this “Progressive” all of the above is a very promising sign that 2012 may bring a second term for our current president who is doing more behind-the-scenes to stabilize an increasingly unstable national and international pile of cow dung than his detractors will admit. After all, Newt yelled about why the U.S. hadn’t intervened in Libya’s war on their citizens, and then, true to the GOP’s MO with anything Obama does, immediately reversed his complaints when the U.S. finally intervened.

I don’t know about you, but I’d like to have a true adult as my president, not a sand-box bully or a reactive head case such as Bachmann, dealing with more issues of importance than at any other time in modern history.