The way you get elected is to promise them everything. Free healthcare for all, for example. Once you’re in, you’re in, and they’re out.
Another way is to get zillions of $1000 contributions from what must surely be the highest-paid waiters and busboys in New York. Never mind that census data puts the average income in that area at $20 – $30 k a year. They just happen to be really really frugal (must be their Scots ancestry).
Your advice on “the least PC candidates” is good for another reason: the Big Election isn’t just about whether Hillary or Mr X gets the Big Job, it’s about all the little races all over the country. If we can’t have the White House, we can take back the Congress and maybe a few more governorships.
I’m extremely pleased (so far) that Bobby Jindal gets to be the next governor of Louisiana. He’s got his work cut out for him, not the least of which is the mess in New Orleans. (That will be a mess until the next category 5 hurricane permanently buries it under the sea.) If he can deal with that, and deal with the still-ringing reverberations of the Long clan, he just might have a shot at the Presidency 3 or 4 elections from now. (He was born in LA, so he’s eligible.) Unfortunately, he’d have to be crazy to want that job (as anyone would).
Which reminds me – on that basis, the only really qualified man is Dennis Kucinich.
