Trumped up interest

  Okay, so this whole fascination with Donald Trump is ridiculous. It's quite clear that Trump's so-called candidacy is being flamed by the 24/7 media desperate to start the presidential campaign, take the focus off the Bumbler in Chief, plump up their lean segments with screaming invective and mocking ridicule of Republicans who might support  the Trump line.
  Everybody's got the right to change their mind about issues, but Trump's changed his mind on a few too many issues very recently, which certainly looks like expediency to court the right wing and tea party vote. 
  Some conservatives have actually supported this candidacy, which triggers more mocking laughter.
  The truth is nobody's running yet and PLEASE let's keep it that way for a while. 
  Why burn a candidate out a year before the race? 
  Why start the really vicious fundraising this early? 
  Why start inundating the air waves with political pap and propaganda 18 months before the election?
  Until somebody's actually running, (Herman Cain notwithstanding) there is no opponent yet!
  Since Obama started running already, one might assume that he's nervous. That he wants to get out front early before any real candidates emerge.
  IMHO, Donald Trump's appearance on the scene is, in a sense, not bad because he is serving to throw side issues into the mainstream conversation. 
  Why shouldn't the birther issue be answered? 
  Why shouldn't people have to verify their citizenship for an office that requires them to be citizens of this country? 
  The very fact that we have someone now in office  who HASN'T verified his citizenship and who has consequently caused so much turmoil proves the point that citizenship should be routinely verified. 
  We all have to do it to get passports and pension papers, so it shouldn't be that big a deal to have a presidential candidate do it.
  That the MSM should act so shocked!! shocked! that the American people might question his citizenship when they have to prove their own every day is whooey.
  Meh.
  This is all sound and fury, signifying nothing.