I have the plot for a great historical novel

[Demeter]

based on the story of a man in his 70's, fed up with politics declining into the sport of billionaires, who decides to run for President, if only to slow down the juggernaut of history that is destroying the nation he loves and torturing the people who live there.

He is surprised by the enthusiasm with which his campaign is greeted. He is stunned by the building momentum. He comes to the point where he must either fish or cut bait, and he decides he's in it for real, all the way.

And that's just the prologue....

[LiberalArkie]

1. Nah.. No one would accept the premise.

Hell I am only 67 and I am all ready to hang it up and jump off Petit Jean Mountain. And that is on the good days. You know you try to accomplish something and what do you get?

[Demeter]

2. That's the secret sauce! Nobody believes it, and we win!

[LiberalArkie]

3. Earlier in the year I was hoping a young liberal guy would come out of the woodwork

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someone that would excite the Occupy kids and someone that the older people could get behind. Someone like RFK did for my generation. I am sure that no one in their right mind would have ever thought that a 70+ year old could excite the youth. This is something that seems to fit in "Alice's Restaurant Massacre" you just find yourself saying "I mean, I mean" in Arlo's voice because it totally defies logic.

[Demeter]

4. They are all starving to death, trying to get a grasp on adulthood, or losing it if they had one

[Fawke Em]

9. Oddly, our local radio station would play that song,

in its entirety, every Thanksgiving Day, several times a day (since the setting occurs on Thanksgiving Day).

Perfect timing to bring up that song (at least in my mind)!

[LiberalArkie]

10. I have a tendency to listen to it on Thanksgiving Day.

[Demeter]

5. There will be a companion novel, too, for the other side

I'm thinking of calling it: "Gone with the Whine"

[Enthusiast]

6. Sounds like the kind of book I would read to the end.

[Demeter]

7. I'm hoping it has no end

volume after volume of a nation turning itself around...and the individuals that do it proud.

[Enthusiast]

8. Great idea!