The Republican candidate selection contest underwhelmed me because it was like a freak show, and I saw my prediction from before Obama's election of someone even worse than Dubya succeeding Obama ever more likely to come true. Now that it's basically down to two, while with good economic news Obama actually leads in the last polls, I start to speculate myself. Is Romney more bad news because he would get swing voters? Or would a candidate Gingrich only herald the nastiest election campaign ever?

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}