An Elephant and a Dark horse Candidate Walk into a Convention...

The GOP doesn't even seem to be trying to win the Presidency in 2012. The current Republican candidates have spent only half of what their counterparts did in 2008. Republicans seem to know they are dealing with bargain basement candidates.

My solution to the current malaise plaguing the party is to nominate the most moderate and qualified in their party:

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Eve Merriam's The Nixon Poems came out in 1970, before the full horror of the Nixon years had been made public. I bought my copy in the 90s at Manzanita Book Store in San Francisco for $4. I might get around to reading it from cover to cover to make me feel a little bit better about our current administration. So far I've just looked at poems randomly, which are accompanied by old fashioned collages done without photoshop.

The second poem in the book may prove to be increasingly relevant as Occupy Chicago approaches this May...

Spring

The sky

is as blue

as policemen's helmets.

The Democrat In The Woodpile

I love the whole damned world.

Even the foreigners.