Or you can put up a bachelor for President, for there is no family to protect.
(So what if he slept around... that’s what you do as a single guy!)
If that’s a serious response, then OK, except I believe all polling has disqualified an unmarried person for the office.
And besides, that suggestion, whether serious or not, still IGNORES my basic premise that if one wants that particular office and one bows out due to “impact on one’s family” (which BTW includes not just wives and offspring), then one has ABSOLUTELY NOT ONE IOTA OF BUSINESS running in the first place, because one is basically a COWARD.
Again, if one allows their campaign to be derailed by innuendo, name calling and rumors, then how can we expect such a person to stand up to the REAL THREATS like A-Q, HAAMAS, Muzzie B’hood, etc, etc etc, ALL of whom would be happy to inflict SERIOUS Bodily Harm on POTUS and those close to him/her.
If there is worrisome crap in one’s background, and having seen the surgery process before, why raise false hopes in the population, unless of course the whole thing is very well planned and orchestrated (KGB/Alinsky & company)?
What is that old saying? Something like (expanded after further consideration):
>Once is a random event (Barry Goldwater)
>Twice is a coincidence (Ross Perot)
>Three times kinda implies a trend/plan (Sarah Palin)
>FOUR TIMES pretty much says (at least to me) “THE PLAN PLAN IS READY FOR PRIME TIME and will work as expected each time it is implemented” (Herman Cain)
Hence my belief that any CONSERVATIVE OUTSIDER making it to the General POTUS Election is forevermore a wet dream. Look at some recent offerings by the nation’s “CONSERVATIVE” party - BOB DOLE and JOHN McCAIN. Now look at the field we will have to choose from:
ROMNEY, GINGRICH, PERRY, PAUL, BACHMAN, SANTORUM, HUNTSMAN
This cast now consists of people who are either a “lesser of two evils” candidate when compared to Obama or doomed to SERIOUS trouncing by Obama in the General Election.
I think what happens goes something like this:
“Pssst, Hey POTUS Candidate from the outside, you have a choice:
(a) get relentlessly, personally decimated by the media
(b) QUIT and either enjoy a VERY profitable career as a political pundit/author/well paid speaker (Palin & Cain) or just go back to your old pre-campaign existence and fade away into the dust of history (Goldwater & Perot)”
To paraphrase one of the greatets movie script lines of all time:
“TRUTH???? We don’t need no stinkin’ TRUTH!!!!”