OCTOBER 31, 2011 3:15PM   Rate: 4 Flag  The race for the
Republican nomination is nearing the starting line.  The green
flag is about to drop in a mere two months and a few days or
weeks later it will all be over.  Mitt Romney, who has been
running since the 1876 election, is still the presumptive
nominee.  The only fly in his ointment is that ¾ of his party
can’t stand him.  It’s kind of hard to figure out why, since any
person can take any position on any issue and be secure in the
knowledge that at some point, Mitt Romney agreed with him.  The
Republicans are like a bride walking down the aisle carrying a
shotgun, desperately scanning the church for somebody, anybody
at all, whom she might force to take the place of the ugly groom
waiting for her at the altar.  At first the shotgun was pointed
at Donald Trump.  He found that his skepticism of Obama’s
citizenship resonated with the right wing.  Unfortunately, Obama
pulled some strings and got his “long form” birth certificate”
released.  Then there was that