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Will Jindal run in 2012? In many ways, Jindal is a great person to challenge Obama. He really neutralizes many of the arguments for Obama, and after you strip away all the irrelevant crap you have only governing philosophy left. On those grounds, Jindal wins.

McCain was a HUGE mistake last time (and I refused to vote for him–I wrote in the only competent candidate, Romney), and I think that we’re not going to have any more RINOs chosen by the GOP. McCain was rejected by the left and barely tolerated by the right. Not a winning combination. He thought he could be popular by simply being the poster boy for the mushy middle. How wrong he was. I’m glad Obama won and is taking heat, because McCain would have largely done the same things. I think you peel off some race-based voters with Jindal, though to be honest I couldn’t care less about race. I want competence. And that’s a very scare commodity with Obama.

a part-time gig. There IS some real sense to that argument, though it of course will never happen… More’s the pity.

Actually, the more I think of it, why not make ALL federal folks (legislators, the President, the Cabinet) 1099 contractors? They have NO benefits, they pay a buttload of taxes, and they have to scrupulously keep track of their expenditures. OK, if you want to have health insurance for them, that can be arranged, but perhaps this arrangement would make them a little more sensitive to the spending binges they go on… I think that one change would drastically change the direction of the country. Is there a reason NOT to make them 1099 contractors? We could even raise the pay a bit to cover for it (not that pay is the motivating factor for most of them). But if they had to pay their portion of Social Security and the “employer’s contribution,” we might see some real change. And then about other taxes…

Sarah Palin. If for no other reason…

Bush levels of competency. He certainly is careening toward Bush approval numbers! Well, yeah. The theme is that Bush was intermittently competent, while Obama has yet to show any competence at all.

this. It just keeps getting worse and worse for Obama. Better for us, though.

The best part is that he is now as liked as president as… (dare I say it?) Sarah Palin. Gee, how the worm has turned!

Why?

I think she is a much better gadfly than presidential candidate. She seems to be chasing celebrity, and the last thing we need is another “celebritard” as president. She really pokes holes in the pompous lamestream media, and that is good, but she really can’t bring those considerable strengths to bear if she is a presidential candidate. I think she does a good job of championing conservative causes, and that would be diminished as a candidate. I don’t want that influence diminished.

Someone like, say, Romney would be a fantastic president and he has a broad and deep knowledge of politics in all it’s aspects. I don’t think (contrary to the lamestream media narrative) that she is dumb or that she would not do a dang sight better than the current buffoon in the presidency, but I think that she would do more good outside of political office. I think that’s what she wants, anyway. She would certainly make a whole lot more money that way, and she already gave up the Alaska Governorship after only 2.5 years or so. Would she win? I don’t know. It looks like it right now, but Obama is a good campaigner. He is a silver-tongued devil and he will make the most of any candidate who dares oppose him. And Palin gives him plenty of opportunity to eke out a win. I think he would have an easier time victimizing her than some others (and you know the lamestream media will help all they can).

I want Obama to be a one-termer. I want the GOP to capture the presidency in 2012. I think Palin takes the spotlight off Obama’s failures and puts it on her, and that is not what is good for electoral success. Obama has been a miserable failure, a butt, a putz. And anything that takes the spotlight off that is a problem.