Senator Susan Collins runs for president

Did you notice anything unusual about Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Friday?

Take a look at these pictures:




That's professional hair and make-up you're looking at.

This is what Susan Collins looks like on a typical workday in the Senate:



That picture was taken in July, 2007.

We don't bring this to your attention because we have some objection to professional hair stylists and make-up artists. Politics is a tough business for women. Any woman would want to look as good as possible when she's about to be photographed and videotaped at a big event that will be shown on the news again and again.

And that's the point.

On a day when the Senate was engaged in all-day, late-night, grueling negotiations over the nearly-a-trillion-dollar stimulus bill, Senator Collins found time, in between negotiating a deal with Senate Democrats and coming before the cameras to announce that she'll be voting with them, to have her hair and make-up done by professional stylists.

She was ready for her close-up.

She's running for president.

She's going to use the video clips of that hallway press conference Friday night to market herself as a post-partisan Republican in Iowa and New Hampshire campaign ads two years from now.

You're thinking that's ridiculous. She's barely a Republican at all, how can she hope to overcome the hostility of the GOP base to her views and her votes?

How did John McCain end up with the nomination?

Well, however he did it, there's your answer.

Senator Collins should have no trouble raising money now that she's the critical vote controlling a trillion dollars in federal spending. That's the kind of thing that gets your fundraising calls returned right away.

This would be a good time for the Ron Paul forces, the people who would like to see less government and more freedom, less debt and more tax cuts, a sound currency and an end to bailouts, to find a candidate who will run on a genuine conservative agenda in 2012.

Let's get rolling. The forces of blight have a running head start.


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