* Mitt Romney, who is certainly not nuts (but is speaking to the nuts), tried to argue that Dodd-Frank is bad legislation; what the country needs is less regulation of the banks, not more. (This is smack dab in the middle of an economic crisis caused, in part, by lax regulation of the banking system.) I know Mitt knows better than this, but that only makes it worse.
* Herman Cain, the new flavor of the month, seems to be basing his entire candidacy on a crackpot 9-9-9 tax scheme that could never, ever get passed in any parallel universe, much less the United States. Why is anyone taking this guy seriously?
* Michele Bachmann (who could very well be nuts) and Rick Perry seem to think people would be better off without health insurance. Huh?
* Perennial gadfly candidate Ron Paul is just an eccentric who must have slept through the financial crisis. Is he really serious about abolishing the Fed? What century does he live in?
* Rick Santorum must be running for President of the Vatican, not the United States. He seems to think that everyone is just dying to follow him back to some 1950s Catholic world that still exists in his head. (Santorum and his family regularly attend a traditional Latin Mass at a Washington, D. C. area church.) He, apparently, has never met a gay person in his life, thinks the U. S. has never done anything wrong in the world, and, well, is just not comfortable in the modern world. Does Santorum have any supporters younger than my mom?
* Newt Gingrich is a pompous old fool whose day has long come and gone; and Jon Huntsman is just a colossal (and pretentious) disappointment.
Is this really the Republican field? Really?
If the economy recovers at all between now and November, 2012, President Obama should win reelection in a landslide. If things remain sluggish, which is more likely, he should still win by default.
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