ZANY?

Calling a fellow politician ZANY is rather uncouth. It is uncalled for in a fight that can make him the nominee of your party.

It makes for belly aching laughter in the living room after dinner. Only the other person must not react in the same way and use some smearing remarks that will embarrass himself, if his rival wins the nomination.

The situation will be very delicate for both persons.

It will be like the old story of one candidate calling the other's economic plans as "Voodoo economics" in the 1990s. That has happened in a similar, I beg your pardon, in the same race some years ago.

The two have finally become friends; and the one that has won the nomination chose to make the other person his Vice-president.

You may not have noticed it, but there is a lot of human frailty going on among the people running in the Republican Party nomination race; but one has just opted out; yet, the other one who has experienced almost the same problems is about to be attacked ferociously in due course.

However, traveling on the political campaign trail, there is the physical human trait that gives the nuances that every person has away, like inadvertently stammering or fumbling or stumbling over words in answering questions.

They are not weaknesses, but they become natural at times to one, when one least expects them to occur.

Jumping around like a rabbit, looking for young cactus to chew on, and calling a supposedly friend and ally a name such as "zany" does not seem to be right. It only causes laughter, for it does not show nimbleness.

"There is a great deal of instability in the man; and he says he wants to be the leader of the Western World?" People will be asking.

Many will doubt that, presumably, not only due to the profuse sweat on his face on the campaign trail, but also for him to make a stupid joke of that kind is not proper. They (people) are saying that there must be a full-time staff member wiping all that off his face; and also, his supporters should be telling him about it, the sweating; as well as asking him to be more serious with his utterances.

The same goes for Mr. Speaker Newt Gingrich, though from a different perspective, who needs some morning exercise than all of his colleagues on the stage.

Take his intellectual savvy and eloquence from him, and he has nothing or very little left in the way of his fitness. Being very smart is one thing, but being fat is definitely and entirely another.

So, if he does not deal with it, that will not connect well with many of his own supporters and sympathisers.

Both men have the chance of sitting in front of the cameras with President Barack Obama in the debates that the media are strenuously planning for November of 2012 presidential election..

He, Obama, will be at the peak of health and resplendent in his Wall Street suit; and as being the current president, he will be exhibiting a great deal of confidence during the debates.

On the other hand, with his opponents, and it can be either one of them, one will be having a watery face or the other will be too fat and clumsy.

In fact, it will be like another event in history repeating itself, with Kennedy versus Nixon being in the same scenario.

When that happens, who do you think the voters will go for? The sweaty or the overweight candidate or the healthy looking debonair, who is ever so clean cut and ready to lead?

You be the judge.

Zany is a caricature type; it must not be associated with a friend and fellow party member, just because he is a rival in a race that the two of you are involved in, for the presidency of the United States, or for that matter, any other contest.

By the way, the sweaty one, Nixon, lost to Kennedy, the clean cut one.