I always love it when somebody starts with the line, “with all due respect…”.

My heartiest congratulations on your magical powers of prediction. My own analysis of the 2012 GOP veep situation was obviously deeply flawed and intellectually bankrupt. I cower in the complete chastisement and humiliation you have visited upon me. How can I ever live with myself?

Did you also predict the winner of the World Series, the Super Bowl and the NBA finals and become fabulously wealthy?

What an egotistical lying sphincter you are!

1) I called Clinton over Bush I in 1991 (a year before he won) — and I won a great dinner for four at Chez Panisse, in case you wondered if stakes, not just bluff, were on the line on any of these calls

2) I called Obama’s eventual victory in the nomination over the “Clintonistas” BEFORE the California primary in 2008

3) I called Obama’s pick of Biden as his Veep weeks before it happened (as the MSM was saying it HAD to be Clinton), since he needed to bolster his lack of foreign policy chops as well as gravitas

4) I called McFail’s pick of a woman to be his Veep weeks before it happened, since I knew he had to try to pull some of the “Clintonistas” away from the Democrats — just got it wrong with putting my money on Carly Fiorina instead of that joke-in-waiting, “Sister Sarah”.

It’s gonna be “Romney/Bachmann 2012″ because she (Bachmann) is gonna suck all the Tea Party support oxygen out of the nomination air UNLESS she is added to the ticket as she continues to mount an almost insumountable (but eventually unsuccessful) challenge to Romney’s coronation as the 2012 nominee — witness this FACT:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43537815/ns/politics-decision_2012/

This is “Kerry/Edwards 2004″ all over again…

Listen and learn, “Johnny Double-U”…

Say it isn’t so!

Although he is a notorious liar, who keeps bobbing to the surface like a **** in a punch bowl.

Bachman would also be an obvious possibility. She fires up the the Tea Party base, but I don’t think the fact that she is a woman would do much for the ticket. No Democratic or independent woman would vote for her just because she’s woman, but some Latinos who would otherwise vote Democratic or stay at home would vote for a ticket with Rubio. Republicans don’t need to get a majority of the Latino vote. They just need to shave a few points off the Democrats’ advantage — which they are working hard to accomplish with voter ID (i.e., voter suppression) laws. Rubio would be icing on the cake.

Romney/Bachmann 2012.

Wing, meet nut. Nut, say hi to wing.

This “liberal” doesn’t think that way. Given that Obama’s re-election chances are probably 50/50 at this point, I want the GOP to nominate somebody whose instincts are those of a centrist or center-right pragmatist, not a Bachman or Perry. I’m predicting a Romney/Rubio ticket.