For the second week running, Gail Collins is advocating Idaho's Gov. Butch Otter run for president. Last week, she said the GOP needed to go deeper in its bench of governors.
This week, Collins offers Otter as an entertaining "diversion" from the boring prospect of a 13-month contest between President Obama and Mitt Romney.
Mark Warbis, an Otter spokesman, said Otter is staying put. "Ms. Collins' column once again clearly was tongue-in-cheek. The Governor is not and will not be considering any job beyond the one he has -- helping to create an economic climate that enables more Idahoans to get back to work."
Collins cites Otter's directorship on the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, the wolf issue and hunting, and the happy prospect of reporters getting to visit Idaho.
"If Gov. Butch Otter became a presidential candidate, everybody in the media would have to go to Idaho to follow him around for a while," Collins writes. "I have never been to Idaho, so I would like that very much."
Collins concedes that Otter's endorsement of Romney is a hurdle. "But betrayal is one of the high points of any presidential campaign."
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Obviously
Gail Collins is either a satirist or an idiot.
The Same
may be said of Mr Popkey.
She's simply comparing...
She's simply comparing Buckaroo-Butch to the current field of GOP Hopefuls... He's as good (or bad) as anyone they currently have... Why not?? Judging from his accomplishments here, he couldn't do worse there...Just another in the parade of clowns the GOP have produced.
It's all pretty academic anyway. Mr. Obama will win by a landslide.
Speaking of Clowns
Hows the Statesman's Marxist Tap Dancing Clown of many names doing these days?. Still playing the fake MD seen by your posts Farang etc.
Where's Rancher? He retire?
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he blew a gasket
I'm guessing he blew a gasket, found laying in a puddle of high blood pressure medicine and bold font.
Gotta be a Spoof - Bullwinkle Moose would be a better candidate
Just visit Idaho without advocating Six Pack for President, it will be better for the entire country and you will enjoy the scenery
Employed by NY
Employed by NY Times.......idiot.
Butch Otter run for president.
Bwaaaa!! Ha!! Haaaaa!!
A Poor Column
The writer is either an idiot, or more likely a spoofster.
The humor will never be appreciated, however, since noone from the Eastern US has ever heard of either Idaho or Butch and Idahoans will not understand the sarcastic humor.
Otter for President?????
Gotta wonder how much publicity this reporter is getting, and why is she using this platform to get it?
Come On, Posters!
"But betrayal is one of the high points of any presidential campaign."
Pretty obvious spoof. :-)
Come On Eileen!
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The floating 3rd Hole on the Coeur d'Alene Golf Course
Otter has shown his astute aptitude in relating Idaho Wilderness getting less human traffic than the "The Floating Hole" He flew to Washington DC to make this statement nationally... and He is an example of Republican Intelligence - I believe he would be an excellent Republican Candidate for President - "Hats off" to The Writer of the article.. Let's hope it gets momentum... He would represent the "lowest common denominator" of the party - along with the Minority leader of the Senate and The House Republican Leader - Go Otter!
GO OTTER!!!!! You are Idaho's Biggest floating Hole!
This is a Great Idea....How come I
did not think of it?
It's depressing to see how
It's depressing to see how many of you (1) don't know that Gail Collins is a humorist and author read by millions, (2) are too ignorant to get the joke because (3) you're too lazy to actually read the column. But you're too busy stocking up on Doritos and Coors Light for tonight's big game. Go Broncos.
Dale Keys
Boise
No, there's gotta be a lawsuit against her medication(s).
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Butch has all the qualifications
to be a Repuglican presidential candidate... He is a tall white man. He has a trophy wife. He is filthy rich. Why not Butch?
and you forgot, he is also a
Legal US Citizen....
And has guns.....
"follow him around for awhile."
I doubt it Gail, you New Yorkers wouldn't like Shorty's Saloon.
who is funnier
I don't know who is funnier, columnist Gail Collins or spokesman Mark Warbis who said (Otter is) "helping to create an economic climate that enables more Idahoans to get back to work." Stop it Mark, you're killing us. Good one!
Touche Gail, we don't need your east coast humor for a good laugh.
Gail should move to Idaho and sell gas and cigarettes @ Stinker
Get a divorce and raise a child if she likes.
Oregonians in general would find her a hick.
Slipstream would that be you?
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It'd be nice to have a Governor
who's seen by the rest of the country as more than the punchline to a joke.
It's New York...they bore quite easily if nothing explodes there
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