"...There's Never A Door Number Three Around When You Need One...."

Today's spot-on political insight comes from a guy whose name you won't hear being bounced around on CNN or Fox News or MSNBC.

Frank R. Stockton.

The more obsessive compulsive among us will, of course, already be typing their way to a Google answer to the obvious question....

"Who is Frank R. Stockton?"

For the more reflective and patient of the rest of us, the answer will be forthcoming.

First, today's breaking political news.

Rick Santorum has called it quits.

That, of course, pretty much amounts to the declaration that the fall presidential campaign will pitt Mitt Romney against Barack Obama.

And, not for nothin', but one interesting sidebar is that while all the major news organizations are already gearing up for that campaign, the candicacies of, at the very least, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich are still, technically, alive, if not well.

The point being the obvious reflection on the impotence of Gingrich's efforts, given that he has been dismissed without so much as a see ya later, legislator.

Meanwhile, predictably, the news site comment sections, blog sites and social network sites are already Draino worthy glogged with liberals who can't stomach the idea of four years of Mitt and conservatives who can't stomach four more years of Barack, even before the wheels on the campaign bus begin to go round and round.

This writer will not be contributing any respective raspberries to that particular cacophany crop.

Primarily because a clear cut disdain for one side or the other in any choice situation requires a clear cut preference for one side or the other.

And barring some dramatic, last minute convention shenanigans, this year's contest really reads more like a new work from...

...wait for it...

...Frank R. Stockton.

The lady or the tiger?

The elephant or the donkey.

Six of one.