Okay, Professor Trotsky ... I concede ... I shall run, after all! And, when I win the 2012 presidential election ... as your reward (or is that "penance") ... I shall appoint you to be my Press Secretary! Good God, ya'll ... can you imagine what kind of spectacle will ensue at each White House presser?! There will be nothing to compare to it since the glory days of the Roman Coliseum ... now that will be riveting television!!! I, for one, will be tuned in ... with a big bowl of popcorn ... laughing my azz off while the Professor schools the dilettantes of the dilapidated Fourth Estate. Oh my ... this could be good ... REAL GOOD.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence