Awoke in a cold sweat.....

At 5:45 this morning I sat bolt upright in bed, heart pounding, grateful as I wiped the sleep from my eyes that it had been a nightmare and not reality.

The cause for my night terrors? Two words.

President Santorum.

I'm having a very difficult time the past few weeks months, just feeling horridly anxious that there will be a Republican at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave after the next election. There isn't one in this current group of clowns running that gives me any confidence that the next President won't put this country into the crapper, once and for all. I have so little trust in the communal intellect of our electorate. It's was gave us two terms of W, and in places like Wisconsin and Florida, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio.

And now with the debacle that is Citizen's United there are some very deep pockets out there that could help put even the likes of Santorum into the White House. I had for a long time thought the man a very crude joke, someone that no one in his or her right mind would vote for. The very thought that he could wind up as either the Republican Party's nominee or his running mate or sends a shiver of ice water through my veins.

I've been following politics ever since I got the franchise at 20. I have never been this uneasy, and I lived through Viet Nam, Nixon, & Watergate.