I follow a lot of US political news.
Apart from football (the real type, not he sissy American one which needs all the padding. Which is something one of my friends who plays rugby said. Sorry!!), US politics is my second favourite hobby. If l don't get my fix of C-Span's Washington Journal on sunday's l get very crabby.
I have to say that l was pretty surprised to read that yet again John McCain will be on sunday morning television.
I think that Republicans may have a serious image problem.
Once again, for the 15th time since the election, John McCain is on a sunday political show to respond to the Obama Administration.
This is the man who LOST the last election.
This is the man that so called "serious" conservatives do not believe is "one of them".
Are they really happy about McCain being out there as the man giving the GOP's message, whatever it is.
Kerry wasn't booked onto the sunday shows every 2.6 weeks after he lost to George Bush, and his election defeat was a lot closer than McCain's.
The GOP need to have a serious look at themselves and wonder why John McCain is considered the best example of a Republican to continually be on the forefront speaking about the party's agenda.
McCain is not one of the minority leaders, he is not the head of the RNC and the only thing he is doing right now in terms of legislation is fighting net neutrality.
It's a long time until 2012 and l understand that some would like to get ahead of the game, or sit on the shoulder of the leader hoping to gain momentum in the slipstream, but relying on the mid-terms while sitting back and doing nothing isn't in my view the best option.
They can continue as l personally don't see it working, but as we see Republican infighting with some of the supposed "leading lights" for the future as well as some of the minor players, it's going to be interesting to see who will step up, but the continued exposure of a political failure cannot be that good for the GOP.