At Least Put Some Effort In

There's plenty of people agape with contemptuous disbelief right now at Mitt Romney's suggestion of a Constitutional Amendment requiring the president have at least three years experience working in business.

I'm pretty outraged as well.  Not because it's a ridiculous idea, but because it's a ridiculous idea that's also really boring.  If you're going to start supporting arbitrary hoops for candidates to jump through, you should at least be inventive.  How about deciding no-one be allowed to take the Oval unless:

• They've punched a shark.  Like, really hard.  The shark has to be in tears afterwards.  No tears means vice presidency only;
• They've completed Halo 3 on Legendary difficulty, whilst wearing socks on their hands;
• They've strangled at least one Communist, using the American flag;
• They've challenged the Hulk to an arm-wrestle.  They don't have to win, but when Hulk says "Puny presidential candidate!", it has to sound at least a little ironic;
• They have laid their hands upon the sick, and, lo!, they have been healed (so long as they have health insurance, obviously);
• They've spilled Chuck Norris' pint, and refused to apologise;
• They've jumped out of an aeroplane into another one, all whilst singing the national anthem;
• They've set fire to a killer-bee hive with the power of their thoughts;
• They've perfected the moonwalk, on the actual moon;
• They've suggested the USA has no business policing the world.

Now that, my friends, would be a campaign season worth watching.