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Cain, Bachmann, Paul, Santorum (sorta) are competing for the tea party / conservative spot.

I'd take Santorum over Paul in a heartbeat.

Paul is too liberal for my tastes. All of that Alex Jones, Code Pink, Stormfront buddy-buddy stuff is rather unsettling.

The news media (including Fox) has already lined up behind Mitt and are busy trying to shove him down our throats. We have to keep them from succeeding at this.

And then we’ll have a nominee. Unless we don’t. In which case maybe we can get Palin in a brokered convention.

Palin has already indicated that she's not interested. I don't want someone in the White House who doesn't want to be there. I like Sarah Palin, but let's not try to force a square peg into a round hole.

Nothing good would come from that.

I’ve thought a lot about Sarah Palin and her reasons for not running. One may simply be that she feels she needs more time with her family, especially with the youngest one, the little boy with Down’s Syndrome, who would now be about the age where he would need more attention and companionship than she would be able to give if she were running for President.

But the other thing is that I think she was afraid that she was developing a cult of personality and that the race would become all about her and not about her ideas and principles. I think the behavior of the Cain fanatics shows the dangers of this: they are so devoted to him personally that they don’t care about anything else and they’re irrational and absolutely vicious in their attacks on anyone who raises any questions about him. Palin, because she had been traveling around the country trying to promote her ideas and vision, but without the support of a political party or campaign, attracted a lot of people to herself personally.

But I think she’s an ethical person and didn’t want a cult following; I think she wanted to be a leader in ideas and policies, and not have groupies because of her personal charm or image. I bet she will run for state office from her new home in order to get back into mainstream politics so that she can have an actual policy effect as she did in Alaska. And then maybe, next campaign...