One of the joys of driving a rent-a-car in the USA is right wing Talk Radio. (I don’t ever seem to listen to them in Canada.)

The jocks are squirming since Obama is vulnerable in 2012, but the GOP have no clear front runner to endorse.

Shawn Hannity, this week, is interviewing all the potential nominees. Interesting.

Huckabee is out. Good riddance. He is well spoken, though, calling the nomination race a “demolition derby“.

According to the Washington Post yesterday:

Mitt Romney 20%
Sarah Palin 18%
Newt Gingrich 11%

Newt is the kind of two faced, lying slimeball who formerly thrived in the GOP. But he seems to have lost a step or two. He sounded befuddled on the Hannity show Tuesday. Romney and Newt are dead in the water on Health Care, in any case.

I’d love Sarah Palin to get it. That would be hilarious.

As of now, I’d vote for these candidates, in this order:

1. Mitch Daniels
2. Tim Pawlenty
3. Obama
4. Ron Paul

Pawlenty is new to me. But I found him quite winning on the radio. He speaks well. The hard right don’t like him. That’s a good sign.

Mitch Daniels won’t even reply to Hannity’s request for an interview. Now that’s a Republican Maverick.

The USA needs a massive economic correction. Obama is not going to do it. Ron Paul would. Daniels or Pollenty might.

Some seem to think that Charlie Crist would be the second coming of Reagan. I don’t know him. But he sounded on Hannity as untrustworthy as Romney. Stay out, Charlie.

Rick Santorum was worst of the interviews I heard, a tongue twisted stumble bum.

Michele Bachmann was surprisingly intelligent sounding. She just might stand a chance in the upcoming debate against 10th Grader Amy Myers.

… By the way, I’ve always assumed that Sean Hannity (rhymes with Insanity) was another Big Fat Idiot clone. But he’s OK. Dogmatic, one-eyed, but consistent, at least.

The only radio ranters I like better are Lee Rayburn and Libertarian Dennis Miller.

Rush and his ilk get their (encrypted) talking points each morning from the Fox News / Republican / Military / Industrial HQ, then drone those ad nauseous for the day. It’s boring.

But I’d listen to Rayburn or Miller.