Prediction: Sarah Palin will not run for president. To block her old rival Mitt Romney, attempt to stay relevant and keep the dollars coming, she will support Rick Perry for the Republican nomination.
Prediction: Michele Bachmann’s campaign is on life support and, like Newt Gingrich, she should be leaving the stage shortly.
Prediction: Rick Santorum’s campaign is doomed.
Prediction: The race for the Republican nomination will come down to Romney and Perry. The only question is how far right will the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party make the eventual nominee go.
Wonder: Has Congress realized that marriage equality has a better public-opinion rating than Congress does?
Wonder: Why has no Republican presidential candidate — except the openly gay Fred Karger — done an “It Gets Better” video?
Wonder: Does anyone really care about “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” except the narcissistic Hollywood types?
Wonder: With all the coverage of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks this week, have any of the mainstream media done any reporting on the LGBT victims of that horrific day?
Wonder: Did “Dancing with the Stars” choose Chaz Bono just for sensationalist headlines to draw an audience?
Wonder: Why do Democrats run from the label “liberal” while Republicans love to cling to the word “conservative”? Is it that they don’t know the meanings of those terms or that they have made them mean something completely different than Webster’s definition?
Prediction: Obama will be reelected, Congress will go back to the Democrats and we as a nation will be glad that the 2012 election is over. And then the media will start predicting the nominees for the 2016 presidential race.
And one last prediction: At least half of these predictions will be incorrect.
Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the nation’s most-award-winning commentator in LGBT media. He can be reached at [email protected].