Perry-Palin for President? Don't laugh. It could happen.

Yep. You read it here first. As the paper pushing TV puppets and pundits debate and argue over ad nauseum the question of whether right-wing wacko Sarah Palin is going to eventually announce a run for President of the United States this year, an even more frightening and harrowing possibility may be staring us all in the face: New GOP front-runner Rick Perry, a man who makes the rest of the republican candidates look almost sane and compassionate, may do more than just hire Palin to travel around the hillbilly South campaigning for him; he might just ask her to be his running mate if he wins the nomination. And for as anti-progressive and simple minded as he may seem to some, that may be more likely than many would shudder to think. Over the last thirty years, the Republican Party has changed. A lot. They seem to like cowboys. Or at least men on horses. Starting with Reagan at least.

Thus far Perry has done such an excellent job at seeming the perfectly coiffed and well suited lapdog for this strange breed of radical extremists who've taken over the once noble Republican Party that he's almost gauranteed an Obama re-election. The only problem with that kind of thinking is that most Americans and indeed most of Western Civilization thought the same thing back in the years 2000 and 2004 about another hick with a stick from the great State of Texas, George W. Bush. Putting aside the fact that Al Gore actually won the 2000 election by more than half a million votes by the American people, which was then handed to GW by the US Supreme Court -- an unprecedented event in American history and one that bears no resemblance to a democracy nor a republic, the American people still somehow managed to "officially" elect the man in 2004. So laugh if you will at the idea of Perry for President, but stranger things have happened.



What the press seem to be missing entirely is that Sarah Palin may not JUST be vying for more money and attention by wagging the possibility of running for President in front of the press through her various speaking engagements, tours and TV appearances -- to be sure she has been very successful at turning her short run in politics into cold hard cash and celebrity, that point isn't up for debate - but what if the very worst is actually just around the corner and no one has been bigger picture enough to notice? Palin could do nothing for Perry except add more charm beauty and charisma to an already undeniably charming candidate. Perry is every bit as down home good looking and aw shucks charming as GW ever was; times ten. Despite the fact that a Perry-Palin win in the White House would mean the end of life liberty and the pursuit of all things sane intelligent or enlightened in America, the brutal truth is that one day in the not too distant future the American people are going to have to vote for their next President. If Bush Jr. could get elected in 2004 when he was ostensibly one of the most unpopular public figures on planet earth at the time, so too could Perry today.

Especially if he's seen being escorted around by the beguiling Palin who will say anything to please a crowd regardless of how untrue offensive or misleading it is. The two of them seen together would be such a visual and aural porno for the Tea Party orgy that's kidnapped the GOP that they just might be able to bring out the vote despite the ridiculous and unlikely potential of the thought. Again stranger things have happened in America. McCarthy, Nixon, "read my lips, no new taxes," Monica Lewinsky, no WMDs in Iraq, and perhaps most unfathomable, the election of the first half-African American in 2008. Anything is possible in the American Dream. That's why we call a dream. If I were a Republican advisor I'd be picking up the phone to call both Perry and Palin and advising them of the dream-team ticket they would be for those unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed masses who are all around us and just uninformed enough to drool all the way home after voting for them.

Of course for every moment of pride I might entertain for pointing out the perfect 2012 GOP presidential ticket, I would also be feeling an equal amount of fear and terror at the thought of it actually coming true. In all our years we as a people in the United States have never witnessed such a vicious ignorant and bitter brood of vipers gathered around a cause as we do now in what is presently being called "the Republican Party." Perhaps not since the anti-segregationists or the anti-abolishonists. There is nothing more terrifying than an angry crowd. Except maybe for an angry ignorant one. Once again, we in the middle face just such a crowd. To call them merely crazy is naeive(sp). They're downright barbaric in their singular mission to oust Barack Obama From the White House, rather than help fix America. The unecessary manufactured debt ceiling crisis showed the entire world just how insane and ugly our failing two-party system has become.

This isn't our parent's or grandparent's America anymore. This is a new generation raised on hatred greed fear self obsession and media smut. Throw in equal parts a new form of radically fundamentalist right wing Christianity and cowboy politics and you've cooked up one hell of wicked stew. One so poisonous that it'd melt the once great melting pot called the USA faster than we could ladle it out to the barefoot and pregnant who are waiting in line to drink all that Tea Party Kool-aid. May God, reason and all that is holy, or secular (take your pick), help us all.