Brett Banter

We really are trying to get excited about the upcoming presidential campaign. Seriously, we are. It's just that well...the field is about as fun as three-day old doughnut. Yeah, it may taste good at some level, but no one really wants it. That impression was reinforced while watching the Republican debate Monday night. This was the second debate of the presidential cycle, an at least had bigger names than the first one held in Greenville last month.

Still, it was extremely lacking. The candidates were ultimately civil and none really showed a reason to get excited about unless you already were excited about them. Still, the election is more than a year away, and there is time for a candidate to come forward.

However, with no super candidate, we wonder if the GOP could run a commission of candidates. Take the best of Romney, Pawlenty, Bachmann, Newt (yes, he does not get a last name), Cain, Paul and Santorum and let them run as a team. Seven Up can be their sponsor. The exposure would be huge. It would unify voters because each would have someone to vote for. It would be gold, I tell ya, gold.

The Chicago Cubs did something like that in the early 1960s. Instead of one manager, they hired a "College of Coaches" to run the team. It was a failure mostly with just one winning season in the four year experiment...so maybe Seven Up isn't write for America.