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Sorry, but the Press did not have to work hard to portray Bachmann as a Bitter Shrew, and no one had to put in any effort to make Cain look like a joke at all.

Bachmann’s political career is littered with her making rediculous hyperbole’s that made Gingrich’s in his hayday look like nothing. What was that rediculous number she threw out about Obama’s trip to India? Billions? or whatever it was, it was patently rediculous. Bachmann is a nice conservative foot soldier, from a relatively safe district who can go out and say incredulous things for effect, and that’s great, but a leader or a national party head? Nope, not there, not remotely in her make up.

As to Cain, the very idea, anyone ever serioulsy argued that someone with ZERO experience in a field is qualified to be the person to hold the highest job in that field is so patently rediculous that it defies any logic whatsover.

You don’t go hire someone with zero experience in a field to take the top position in another one, life and the real world don’t work that way, and to argue that politics is somehow the exception to that rule is nonsensical. We already have a complete schlub in the White House, and he’s made a disaster of things.. it will take easily 20-40 years if that to undo the damage this administration has done not only to the US, but more importantly to the stability of the world. The very idea we should send another schlub up fo the job, just because this one has an R beside his name was a nonsense proposition from the get go.

I have not been manipulated by anyone, recognition of Political reality is not manipulation. The tea party bloc wasted their influence this election cycle, because they continually bounced from joke to joke of candidates, and that’s reality. They didn’t bother to think beyond the surface of any of them.. they jumped on whever told them what they wanted to hear, whether or not that person had the experience or ability to back it up, and in doin so, lost any real ability to influence the race in a real meaningful way.

As to Romney being able to beat Obama, while I don’t care much for the guy, he will win, if, the conservative base doesn’t do something self destructive. Like it or not, and this is the cold hard reality of politics that many refuse to recognize, you and I aren’t the people who carry elections for someone. We don’t. Like it or not its that 40% in the middle that decide EVERY election.

And what you and I may like the most, doesn’t mean its going to translate into support among that 40%. That’s the stone cold truth about the political system of the US. National Elections are won or lost on the swing voter. To beat Obama, the Republicans need a candidate that the electorate will not view as too extreme, because that’s all that matters this cycle.. every single poll out there suggest the electorate cannot wait to give this bufoon the boot, however, they will not vote someone that is viewed as too extreme or radical in, to get rid of the radical that is currently there.

I don’t like Romney, I personally prefer Gingrich, and would love to seem him truly take on Obama on an ideological campaign, which I am certain he would do. However, sadly it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. Santorum has zero chance of winning a general election he is far too easily painted as radical by his own words. Yes, he excites the social conservative wing of the party, but it also alienated just as many if not more of the swing voter.

I wish Gingrich could have caught fire earlier, and that he would have focused on Santorum and ended the splitting of the conservative vote instead of focusing on Romney months ago, and then he would be the front runner by now, unfortunately that didn’t happen, so we are where we are.

Pragmatic reality is not being manipulated, and only Zealots don’t know who their friends are.