Nuking Politics Needs Your Help: Stav Blackmane Edition

I am hoping to meet with Stav Blackmane sometime in the near future, most likely in Livonia or Grand Rapids Michigan (his travel schedule will determine when and where, and apparently parts of late September and most of October are still a bit fluid), but in the meantime he’s agreed to let me “interview” him, per se, via email. I’m sure there will be a bit of “back and forth”, and that I’m going to have to collate the exchange into something coherent, but I want to hit him up front with a good set of questions that will hopefully be so much better than the session he had with  Keln, he and I become BFF’s.

I also told him that I was going to solicit questions from our readers, which is what I want to do here. Blackmane’s only request along those lines is that we “not throw him softballs, unless they’re funny”. I’m guessing “briefs or boxers” would be out of bounds (I don’t know, and I really don’t want to know, well I kinda do), but a good setup line would probably be OK. However, I would prefer the questions be serious and difficult.

So here’s your chance to get in on the interview. I’ll be choosing which questions to forward, but the man can obviously read so it is a safe bet he’ll see anything submitted as comments, and I’m thinking there’s an even bet he may end up addressing questions that aren’t on my “selected” list. Time will tell.

Although I reserve the right to “revise and extend my own remarks”, here’s how I currently plan to start off:

#1     You obviously didn’t win the Republican nomination, and most people have never even heard of you, so why do you seem to still be trying to position yourself as a “real” candidate – the whole “dark horse” thing – rather than as a running gag along the lines that people like Steven Colbert and, I think, Dave Barry have done in the past? (My apologies to Dave Barry if I’m misremembering. But my bigger apologies for the show based on his writing in the early 90’s)

#2     What makes you think you’re qualified to hold the Office of the Presidency, should a truly major miracle happen – given that as of today you do not appear on any state’s ballot as far as my research has been able to determine – and you somehow end up winning?

#3     Assuming that something a little less miraculous happens this November, and either Obama or Romney ends up being elected, do you have any further political aspirations?

#4      Where do you see our country headed? (My follow-up questions will of course be determined by his answer.)

#5      ?  This is the part where you come in, this question mark represents your question.

Come on, Nukers! Fire your best, smokin’-fast hardballs into the comments, and we’ll see what happens.  Ask the sort of questions you’ve always wanted the press to ask, but they JUST NEVER DO.  I’ll let this cook for a few days and see what there is to draw from (don’t let me down!), and if this Blackmane person really wants to be a politician, and claims to not be simply giving lip service to the “a different kind of politician” catchphrase, let’s make him really EARN the position, whatever that one day might be.

And remember – he asked for it!

UPDATE:
Link to teaser of Part 1
Link to Part 1
Link to Part 2