I'm sure you all noticed the monumental announcement that The Donald will not be running for president. I like to think that after a couple weeks of sputtering while trying to come up with some kind of comeback to Obama's thorough Correspondents' Dinner take-down Trump just hung his head and gave up the ghost. He did his best to try to maintain his ridiculous egoism ("I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election...however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector.") but it came off pretty hollow.
This follows charming-but-dim, religiously bigoted, homophobic Mike Huckabee's decision to drop out of the race this weekend. I think he really dropped out because he's making too much money on Fox. It's a good thing because his other recently proposed endeavor, shilling arch-conservative "educational" propaganda, is patently ridiculous. I mean, seriously, Mike. This is my world you're trying to enter into. My publishing cronies and I will crush you in your first sales campaign!
Anyhow, the field is narrowing. I think that Palin will eventually bail, too, given that she would have to give up her fat Fox News paychecks. That still leaves a decent-sized crowd but only Bachmann and Hermain Cain will represent the truly lunatic fringe. Well, maybe Santorum, too. That's good but we were promised much more crazy.
2 comments:
well, we'll still get the crazy from that lovable lug joe biden. but that's a happy crazy, not an evil crazy.
I still fear/speculate that Joe will be ushered out the side door for 2012 to allow for a VP who can then win in 2016.
The upside to the thinning of the GOP crazy-herd is that it really allows the spotlight to shine on Michelle Bachmann. There is no downside to that.None.
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