Name:   copperline - Subject:   McCarthy seeks help Date:   10/9/2015 2:17:48 PM

LOL, now if you didn't lift that one from The Onion, you really should be writing for them.   Very funny.

I honestly didn't realize that the Speaker of the House didn't need to be a member of Congress until last night when speculation began that the House could bring someone like Mitt Romney in to be the Speaker.   Wow, a party that has lost agreement about it's own platform such that they can't even find an acceptable candidate... incredible.   No sane person would take that job as long as they are assured that the radicals would do everything possible to destroy them in the event of a disagreement.    News reports today suggest that McCarthy changed his calculation because of implicit threats to take him down using stories about an alledged affair.   He didn't even get far enough to get a vote, and the radicals were ready to character-asassinate him.

So, in keeping with the thread, I'd make a few suggestions of possible candidates for the Speaker's position:

1.  Donald Trump.  Because he loves to speak.   He'd be a great Speaker, just ask him.

2.  Sarah Palin:   an expert on foreign policy, astute intellectual and darling of the NRA.  Besides, she's kinda cute.

3.  Bonzo the Chimp:  Many people don't realize it, but Ronald Reagan's TV co-star has been waiting in the wings for a while now, feeling that the country didn't take him seriously enough and fell in love with his pretty-boy partner.   

4. Ronald Reagan:  sure, they'd have to use a bust or a statue... but everyone could unite around his mute effigy and claim that he is on THEIR side.   Being dead makes it easy to remain neutral and impervious to asassination.