So you're 30+ years old and mother of three squalling brats and carry 30 extra pounds and your second hubbie has gone to parts of persons unknown and won't be back, and your apartment smells like dirty diapers. You can dream, can't you? So you read the National Enquirer about celeb love and breakups, and buy those little romance paperback books that have hunky men enbracing buxom lasses on the cover. Will a white knight like that come and take you away from all this?
You sigh and know that white knights are uncommon around here, and if one were to get lost and knock on your door. he wouldn't be interested and wouldn't come in because of the smell and the noise.
So you leave the kids with mom and hit the bars, knowing that when the hour hand moves past 12, everybody gets prettier.
So it is with the Republican Party. Kissed too many beaux, slept with too many, had too many kids, drunk too many beers and eaten too much fast food and what is left is not too attractive to anybody in a position to be at all choosy.
Short and unsweet analysis. "2012 and the republican rescue fantasy" http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/2012-and-republican-rescue-fantasy From the article:
"COLUMBIA, S.C.
"Talk to enough people around this key primary state and you'll learn two lessons, over and over again. One is that there is absolutely, positively no unity among Republicans about any presidential candidate or potential candidate; there's no such thing as a frontrunner. The other is that in the back of their minds, many Republicans are hoping that somewhere, somehow, a superhero candidate will swoop down out of the sky and rescue them from their current lackluster presidential field. They know it's a fantasy, but they still hope....
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/2012-and-republican-rescue-fantasy#ixzz1LoqxbBTg
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