Does Slick Willard Romney come with the offering?

If he does, would I get Flip Romney (pro-choice) or Flop Romney (anti-choice) if I were to place the "winning" bid? Would a weather vane be included?

Susana de Montoya
Ranchos de Taos, NM

This Willard fellow seems to have a great sense of humor.

Willard, by the way, is Mitt Romney's real first name. Yup. Willard Mitt Romney. Yeah, Mitt is better.

Someone has already bid on the presidency! Ebay user "fuzzypuffs" is a top tier candidate no one has heard about. Check it out here.

Yeah, along with this, a shrewd investment in the commodities market and donations from Hsu you might be able get cup of Starbucks coffee.

Sorry, Forbes was seen as the biggest spender in early 1999, with his $30 million. That is why Gov Bush of Texas had supporters starting to raise $100,000 and $200,000 in bundling to offset the influence of Forbes.

Compare that to 2008 with the GOP:
Rudy and Romney have millions, and yet, no one can be certain either of them will win the nomination. It could still be McCain now that he is back in charge after spending over $25 million in the past months.

Ebay and voters? Nope, that is a disconnect.

MMmmmm, I can think of better ways to spend my money....
Ok, so you bid a min. of $20 mill, to get a job that pays $400,000 per year, free housing for four years-maybe eight if you're lucky. Free medical, dental, impregnable security, the global red carpet treatment, and a chance to make history.

Well, seems to me at the very least, one walks away with a considerable financial loss (unless you do really well on the speaker's circuit after).
That's for starters....now personally, I flat couldn't stand the thought of having to live the rest of my life having someone check to see if there's a bomb planted in the toilet every time I need to use the loo, but then that might be agreeable to some folk...

You get to make a lot of decisions on the job, but no matter how hard you try, or how well you do your job making history, someone is always going to say you've totally screwed the world up beyond recognition. Thus the need for someone to check the loo for you...

I mean 'cmon, are the perks worth the grey hair?

Such a mystery...I'll never understand why anyone bothers to run for the office. Let alone paying to play at being a contender...

Hey, speaking of candidates, who are these jokers who think they have the right stuff anyways?...To defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Yikes, and if you do get the job, half the country will simply consider YOU the enemy. Loyal minority not withstanding....no good deed goes unpunished.

I am SO glad I'm just another happy idiot, struggling for the legal tender,...I just had to tell someone....(chuckle).

EJ

The Communist Chinese have already bought & paid for a president, name a Billery Clinton though the anti-American American media won't talk about it. Anyone who does should read 'The Year of the Rat" Timberlake & Timmerman's well documented book on the subject. The ChiComs got good value for there money too in missle & Nuke technology. Billery is running again & Norman Tsu (not his real name) is right there to do it all over again.

Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't we ban all political contributions from everyone. Zero, nothing, nada. Then all of the Candidates during the primaries would be required to appear on television once every two weeks to debate until the end of the primary season. After the primaries and the political conventions, then the two candidates would have to meet, as Newt Gingrich says, for 9 debates over 9 weeks for at least 2 hours for each debate (3 would be better). Since the FCC owns the air waves, ALL the networks would be required to show every single debate. I'm sorry, the country will just have to make due without watching "Dancing with the Stars" for one week, but I think the nation is worth it, don't you?. Newspapers and Television networks will then analyze all of the debates again and again (especially the cable news networks), trying to see who "won" each debate, thereby keeping each candidate in the public's eye until the election. Then we would all vote for a president. Sound like a stupid idea? Sound too simple, too "naive?" Sound like it could never work? Well, we didn't have massive campain contributions in 1860, we didn't have campain ads, we didn't have huge campain organizations and consultants, and we picked a president based on what he said, not on how he was "packaged" to the American public. How did we do? Well, we ended up with a man called Abraham Lincoln. Not so bad, right?