I thought the state controlled, liberal “media” had already chosen Romney/Christie as the GOP ticket.
In any other year I would say this is a terrible idea but in 2014, the era of Obama..I say, what the hell. can’t get any worse.
There is sentiment out there for a black President who can “do it right” this time. The Americans of African descent were used most dreadfully badly by the Current Occupant, with whom few of them really have much in common.
The Current Occupant has been bound by two foreign ideologies, both the internationalist vision of Soviet-style communistic rule, and the hierarchy of the Islamic State, for which he seems to have an inordinate amount of fascination. Both are highly structured societies, with little mobility upward, but a great deal of downward mobility, expressed in a militant attitude toward any kind of dissident behavior that is not in accordance with the “norms” of that society. No apostasy is allowed in either, and the whims of the top hierarchy may by visited upon the lower strata without fear of retribution, except perhaps by a peer in the same or slightly higher level of the hierarchy. The masses are kept cowed in a lockstep of fear and rather draconian enforcement of the rules for even minor infractions.
Sorry, I really have great difficulty in contrasting Soviet-style worship of a “strong man”, in a secular sense, and the Islamic Republic or Caliphate which also reveres a “strong man”, only they use the trappings of a religion to further reinforce this image.