Why the Lame Parade? The Right People Refuse to Run.

Hey, Allen West. Hey, Marco Rubio. Hey, Paul Ryan. Hey, Bobby Jindal. Hey, Sarah Palin.

Guys, really. Where are you? Why are you hiding in your cozy little states, refusing to affect the kind of positive change you have enacted on a state level on a national one?

Allen West is a fighter and a true hero, in every sense of the word. Marco Rubio is the kind of solid conservative who seems to understand what conservative values are all about (unlike Rick Santorum). Paul Ryan is THE guy to curb government spending and put the economy back on track. And yet...they won't run.

Instead, we get leftist empty suits like recent Iowa Caucus winner Mitt Romney, or Jon Huntsman.

Or radical idealogues with dangerous ideas about foreign policy like Ron Paul.

Or men who've spent the last two decades making themselves a stink in everyone's nostrils like Newt Gingrich (whether he deserves it or not isn't the issue of this post).

Or men who don't even seem to know what kind of campaign they're running, like Rick Perry (seriously, what was up with that "gay soldiers" ad?).

Or men who want to replace oppressive liberal big government with oppressive CONSERVATIVE big government (as if that's not an oxymoron) like Rick Santorum.

Where have all the good men gone?!

Why are good conservatives, who seemed to understand the importance of voting the bums out of Congress and the Senate in 2010 suddenly sitting back and letting men like those I described all but ensure that the bum currently sitting in the White House WON'T be voted out this coming November?

One of the only reasons I still kinda hope Newt pulls this one off is that he's a fighter, and we need fighters. Romney's an appeaser, not a fighter. Rick Perry doesn't even know what he is. Jon Huntsman is a liberal. Ron Paul is all about himself. Rick Santorum is a whiner who thinks he's a fighter.

The fighters who took back congress last year have decided this is one fight they won't get involved in. Why not? Is it because so many are recent electees? Who cares? Obama had yet to finish one term as a junior senator before he became President. Sure, we talked about his lack of experience, but it was his short term in office, COMBINED with his complete lack of accomplishments or record of any real meaning, little to no real world private sector experience and just the mysteriousness of why anyone, black or white, conservative or liberal, should vote for him, that we made issue of.

If Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio or Allen West (my top three picks) were to run, nobody would question their records. Oh, sure, they'd all be excoriated by the press the way all GOP candidates are, and almost certainly Rubio's "natural born" status would be questioned, but they could, and would, fight it. They'd turn it around on the press and come out looking like the winners they are. They are as close to a modern-day Reagan as we currently have.

And any of them would have won in a landslide. But they quit fighting.

Now we only have the one fighter, and he's losing. So, 2012 will either give us four more years of President Worst Ever, or introduce President Not-Obama. Because of the men left in the race, nobody wants to vote FOR THEM, they only want to vote AGAINST OBAMA.

Not good enough. I weep for the nation.