Let's please EVERYBODY and win in a landslide!
Let's run all three of the above as the new PC party ticket. The Progressively Conservative party.
This new PC platform is based on two fundamental and complimentary truths:
1) The Right is very concerned and serious about protecting Freedom FROM Democracy. We see through titles and look for results. And... we suck at marketing.
2) The Left is superficial and uninterested in long-term affects when immediate thrills and meaningless statements are at stake.
Soooooooo.....
Let's start the PC party and run the Three's Company ticket starring Rick Perry as Jack Tripper. Libs will really grow for the threesome aspect, if you know what I mean. More than the Ball will be Hard when Matthews gets a thrill up one leg and down another reminding every guest that he's named after 'Chrissie'. The news folk will love all the angles and triangles to write about. And it would attract many crossovers - I hear Bill Clinton's already on the bus.
Make the campaign site so that it feels like a porn site. Of course, I personally have NO idea what that would entail... but I hear things. Like foreign policy sound bytes referencing the 'Cowboy positions of Dick Perry', ToddP's take on transportion: 'I like it doggie style' and of course photos of Bachmann's hubby to attract the silk shirts. The donations button will be labeled Moms I'd Like to Finance. Expect an orgasm of cash.
The wandering eye of the lecherous left has had Obama, so to speak. Time for something new, someone borrowed and a prez plus two. (Sorry, the rhyming aspect is bait for the Jesse Jackson types.)
So I believe the Left would be accepting - and probably presenting.
And the Right should have no problem supporting three conservatives instead of one or possibly two. As a package deal. We can go pretty dang rogue without being unconstitutional or otherwise scary. Of course only two can appear on the ballot and none of the three egos can be expected to ride in the back today.
However, come October, one quite possible scenario is that my fave, Bachmann, will be trailing Perry and Palin. So she might be receptive to game-changing ideas that keep her relevant. So they draft the "Contract To Save America" or something. Which says Bachmann agrees to drop out and Palin/Perry agree to go Pres/VP based on polls one month later. At which point the VP designee drops out. All three campaign for the one left. Against Romney.
Big primary win for the Right. Slaughter for the establishment - even if they team up too.
Come the general, all three every day hammering Obama. The contract has a P/P ticket with Bachmann promised the role of full-time Congressional liaison. I know, nothing new in theory. But in practice she could be MUCH more visible and her stellar voting record on the pressing issues of today and her federal experience would fill a gaping hole to two state execs leave on the ticket. And when we have summits/pow-wow and such between the White House and Congress, she can bring the Do-As-I-Did gravitas to the arm-twisting table.
It could be a great story of personal sacrifice for the sake of country, an example of team work and an awesome combination of executive experience from our three biggest states -Alaska and Texas- plus the new conservatism of the heartland.
Hey, maybe it will be the start of the Super Committee for Freedom. These three could name names. Fill future jobs. During the campaign instead of after. And highlight the Obama dregs that would be replaced by our much more respectable crew. Lots of material there. With people like Sec. Timmy, AG withHolder, Big Sis, etc. it will NOT be difficult to find starkly and favorably contrasting faces. And policies.
I'm only half joking.
We do need to finds ways to make the glut of better-than-Romney and infinitely-better-than-Obama choices an advantage to their defeat rather than simply another occasion for infighting.
Tyranny never sleeps. But he takes a Shiite load of vacations.
(Note to Mormon candidates: don't try to steal this Three's Company idea. Something reveals to me that it probably will not work for you - even if you were conservative.)