This is the Best We Can Do?

301,139,947.

That is the estimated current population of the United States. I googled it, so it must be true.

That figure probably doesn't include illegals, so add another 10 to 30 million at your own discretion.

Anyway, my point is this: With over 300 million people living in this great country, is this the best we can do for presidential candidates?

At least the Republicans are honest about their disappointment in the feeble GOP field. The Dems beam about their collection of misfits as if the whole group were the second coming of FDR.

The Republicans keep looking for the next Reagan. Psst, hey folks - he's not here. The closest thing you guys have to the next Reagan is Newt, and he had the sense to realize he wouldn't have a prayer in the general election.

Instead, you have waffling moderates like Rudy and Mitt; you have Huckabee, who is less Reagan-like with each examination of his record; Fred Thompson, who would really rather be doing something else; and McCain, who has pissed off half the party with his intellectual independence.

You're screwed. Your only hope is an anti-Democrat turnout. Good luck with that.

The Democrats' claims of a strong field are laughable. Let's see, you have Hillary, whose neck veins appear close to bursting as she tries to hold in her Marxist tendencies with each word, not to mention roughly two hundred other dislikable qualities.

While I'm on the topic, I think it would be great if Hillary slipped on the campaign trail and let loose with something like "...and long live the proletariat!"

Anyway, you also have Barack Obama, the guy who learned all about international relations while playing "kick the can" in Indonesia (good gawd); John Edwards, who dreams up ways to promote his Politics of Envy from his palacial 28,200 square foot estate; and Joe Biden, who is a foot-in-mouth accident waiting to happen.

If you folks want to pretend the Dem field is strong, at least do us a favor and try to keep from laughing.

The reason for this dearth of decent candidates, of course, is the fact that our REAL Best & Brightest (as I mention in the blog below) know better than to run for President. Why should they? Each day must be a 20-hour proctology exam for these people; you have to worry more about fund-raising than the issues that face our country; idiots from coast to coast are lying about you 24 hours a day; you even run the risk of having Hillary Clinton attack something you did in FREAKING GRADE SCHOOL, as Obama has.

So we're stuck with this group.

And I thought Bush vs. Kerry was bad.


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