Reply #10: It's scary enough that Santorum actually sees himself as presidential [View All]

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material. That alone is unsettling.

The Republican field for 2012 is a series of trap doors on the deck of a rickety houseboat over a shark pond. If Obama wants a second term the Republicans don't have anybody who can defeat him, IMO.

Is Romney their frontrunner? I guess he is. But it's hard to say because the fundie nutbags don't generally cotton to Mormons, and they comprise a huge chunk of Puke primary votes. Is Huckabee interested in the job? He doesn't seem to be.

There are some massive egos at play. Newt Gingrich would love to be the nominee but he's too yucky.

Barbour is a smarmy good ol' boy.

Jindal is tied up with public speaking lessons for at least a decade.

Giuliani is still smarting from his disastrous primary campaign in 2008 and wants to be the president but has just been offered the part of the Red Skull in the new Captain America flick. If there's a sequel, he's out for 2012. "No, Mr. Giuliani, you can't use the bullhorn for this role."

Palin seems more likely to run as a Bagger than as a Republican, a third party stunt aimed at voters who are drawn to wolf-hating secessionist morons.

Mike Pence. Tim Pawlenty. George Allen. George Pataki. Duke Cunningham. Franklin Graham. Lou Dobbs. They're interchangeably repulsive.

Santorum is as bad as any of them and more ambitious than most of them. He could make the Pukes' nomination race real interesting.