2012 Presidential Race: Ladies, Gentleman, Politicians…it’s time to start up your rhetoric!

Windbags unite! Hot air aficionados are ready for a chance to heat up race with meaningless rhetoric…

That’s right folks…we’re going to have us an election. In 19 months. Between now and then, make sure you’re wearing your high boots during the debates as the shit will be piling up fast!

Republicans presidential hopefuls have been noodling around and sending up hot air balloons of interest for several months now. Most recent is former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick (I sometimes lose it and call the president a liar) Santorum. He’s setting up a fundraising committee that allows him to take the first steps toward a 2012 presidential campaign.

But it’s the “Donald” (as in Trump) as a GOP presidential candidate that really tickles me – “Your fired!” host and Real Estate Czar, is already a frontrunner along with (Gasp!) Mike Huckabee! And why not? They’ll fit in nicely with the other clowns whose names are floating around looking for infusions of hot air and money.

There’s Newt (Two Failed Marriages and loon) Gingrich;  former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney who believes in a guy named Joseph Smith and money;  and former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (can you say former lobbyist?) with  his vision of the “New South.”

This past weekend, attendees of the Awakening 2011 conference for American values voters selected Rep. Michele Bachmann as its straw poll winner. Bachmann won 23 percent of the vote, while Huckabee garnered 22.8 percent and Newt Gingrich placed third with 21 percent of the vote.

A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll revealed Huckabee and Trump are neck-and-neck (or dollar for dollar) in the race. Frank Newport, the editor in chief of Gallup, says “this is a very unusual year” for GOP candidates because, unlike previous presidential races, there is no clear leader.” No kidding?

The Democrats, of course, are going with the guy in office right now. President Obama didn’t waste any time in announcing his intentions for the next election. It’s safe to say the 2012 presidential race is off and running and he’s in the campaign mode.

Isn’t that special? Obama and the GOP are going to have their hands out asking for taxpayer money (elect me with your money) and on the other hand they’re busy trying to balance a budget on the backs of the middle and lower class while giving the wealthy and corporations tax breaks.

Makes me warm and fuzzy all over knowing that the circus  election is going to be taking up most of those reprobates time trying to get re-elected, or elected for the first time, while the rest of us suffer through their meaningless rhetoric and this never-ending recession.

As It Stands, at least we don’t have to buy tickets to watch the “horse and pony” shows…or wait…do we?