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In reading your take on the Republican party's presidential prospects for the 2012 election, I am envisioning Donald Trump's run at the Republican ballot as comparable to the recently televised public mayhem surrounding Charlie Sheen. Celebrity plus money plus high ratings equals media saturation. You are right to be concerned that Donald Trump's antics are hurting the party he is running under. The media will extensively cover the absurd, because it is America's guilty pleasure and we will watch. While I must admit that I do not support the Republican party, I would hate to see the 2012 race taken over by frivolous issues that distract from what is relevant.
I hope to see a worthy opponent rise out of the Republican party, and that would not be Donald Trump, and it certainly would not be Sarah Palin. Palin has shot herself in the foot repeatedly when she did allow the media to approach her, showing her lack of knowledge to put it kindly. Now she hides from the media, utilizing a strategy in which she carefully exposes the image she wants to convey to the public through limited and controlled interactions with the media. Could you imagine putting this person in a room with another world leader, allowing outrageous, un-vetted remarks to potentially harm our foreign relations? Think Blood Libel...
While Romney and Huckabee do bring the issues that Americans are concerned with to the presidential platform, I would like to see a new, unexpected Republican candidate surface. The current candidates are just too partisan in their approaches, and the country is already deeply divided. I think Obama has it in him to be great; his first term has been a slow start, dealing with the tremendous debt created in the Bush era and a woefully divided Congress. If we could get two candidates in the ring that would make eliminating partisan divisiveness their top priority, 2012 could be an intellectually stimulating election year.
Things would be really interesting if a strong minor party candidate emerges, but now I feel like I'm really dreaming...
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