* So there’s talk about Rick Perry getting in the presidential race soon. I think he’d be a lock if he did. He’s a governor of a state that’s actually doing pretty well in this economy, he’s conservative and not just conservativey like Romney, and he’s not as boring as Tim Pawlenty. If you want a good candidate, you really do need a good governor. It was weird in 2008 when we had to legislators running against each other; being a legislator high-paying job where you just vote yes or no on stuff — you could literally teach a dog to do it. It shows no actual ability to do anything, and if you’re one for too long you probably forget how to do anything useful. And our current president is someone who never in his life showed any actual ability to do anything other than talk, and still hasn’t after a few years as president.
* So all of Gingrich’s staff just suddenly left. You think Gingrich understands that it’s all over yet, or is he like the black knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail sitting there with no arms and no legs vowing to crush everyone. I’m guessing the later, because after Gingrich’s fatal misstep in attacking Paul Ryan’s plan, he’s seemed to enter this bizarro world where he’s not the DC insider and everyone else is. It’s like he’s going after Ron Paul’s crazy vote. Dude, that is not the niche you want to compete for.
* Alec Baldwin defended Anthony Weiner as a “modern, high-functioning man.” That makes it sound like Weiner is mentally handicapped and just learned to dress himself — which may be a pretty good description of left-wing politicians in general. Yet, people like Baldwin try to make a virtue of how these people are weirdos instead of saying the obvious, “Maybe we should stop giving these freaks money and power.” I never got how that’s not a bipartisan stance. I guess we just need to stop defending right-wing politicians as well. If a left-winger attacks a conservative politician, just say, “Yep, he’s awful. Everyone in DC is awful. SO LET’S STOP GIVING THEM MONEY AND POWER!”
* The Washington Post and the New York Times are going to crowdsource going through all the released Sarah Palin e-mails, asking people for free to scour them for something to make into a hit piece. That’s pretty smart, as there has to be a huge overlap between people deranged about Palin and people with way too much time on their hands. You ever get the feeling, though, that if the press devoted a fraction of their energy on digging up dirt on Palin to investigating Obama, he’d be in jail right now?
* You might want to sit down for this news: New study says that sitting can be just as deadly long term as smoking. Aren’t you getting tired of these studies where everything is killing us unless we spend our whole days running around in a field eating leafy greens? Who wants to live like that? I just want to live long enough to get to retirement because I’ve been really working on my surprised face for when I’m told I won’t be getting Social Security. Everyone is going to laugh so much.
I don’t think laughing kills you.
* Dems are getting pretty panicked about the the possibility of a double-dip recession, because no matter how much they hype how likable Obama is, the guy who trashed the economy is not going to get reelected. I mean, what exactly is Obama going to run on? “You elected him to be the first black president, and… well… he’s still that.” Since we kind of wasted our “first black president” milestone, it will be nice to leave open the “first black president reelected” milestone open to someone worth teaching future children about.