Kathleen Parker: Eager to know the GOP field for 2012? I'm not.

The Washington Post ^ | March 6, 2011 | Kathleen Parker

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This is doubtless heretical, but I'll say it anyway: I can wait to find out who the Republican presidential candidates will be.

To be clear, I said "can," not "can't."

Let's go further: I don't care who they'll be. At least not yet.

I don't care because it's only March 2011. President Obama's first term is scarcely half over, and the next election is 20 months away. Twenty months! Can you bear this conversation 24-7 for 20 more months?

ABC News in November produced a guide to Republican presidential contenders because, according to the network's Web site, the 2012 election was just two years away. Just? I've been tired of the 2012 elections since 2009.

Today the buzz is that Newt Gingrich won't be definitive. Politico reports that the former House speaker was supposed to make big news in Atlanta on Thursday and all we got was this lousy "oddly named" Web site: NewtExplore2012.com.

What can it mean? Is he running or isn't he? Not to be a spoiler, but I'd say he's running. I just don't care. Yet.....

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True, but I’d be willing to try to judge with my gut than vote for those I already know aren’t up for the job..