It's also a little surprising the two crazy uncle-like, fringe candidates are still in the race. But Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich appeal to a larger group than you might expect. Besides, primaries are always about playing to the base, so while I would expect these two to hang around a while, they'll both be gone by next year's Benefits Selling Expo. (If they're not, call me on it San Antonio, and I'll buy you a drink).

Which leaves your two front-runners.

Let's start with Texas Gov. Rick Perry. He came in late (by comparison) and with a lot of fanfare. And while he's managed to at least finish a term as governor, he might have peaked too soon. And the increased level of national media has proven a tough transition. But at least he's gotten some of these early missteps out of the way early, so they'll be long forgotten by February.

Which leaves us with Mitt Romney, running for president since 2007. I know he's got executive experience – both in the public and private sectors—but can anyone remember his last real job? I mean, even if he did win, wouldn't he have a little trouble getting up and actually going to work in the morning? I'm joking here, obviously, but this guy's been running so long I'm worried he'll pull a Forrest Gump and blast right past the finish line, campaigning his entire administration.

Of course, it feels like we've got that already, because someone figured out Obama's a better campaigner than an administrator, so they sent him out on the road to “campaign” for this jobs bill—which looks surprisingly similar to his last jobs bill.

(And we see how that turned out.)

But I've wandered way off track. I was talking about last Sunday's dinner, when a lull in the post-meal conversation allowed my father-in-law to casually ask me what I thought about the Occupy Wall Street movement.

I told him that while their “demands” didn't strike me as reemoptely realistic, I could empathize with their frustration, if not their hygiene. I told him I thought this had the potential to spark our own version of London's burning, riot-filled summer.

People are frustrated. Jobs are scarce. And a good salary's harder to find than Casey Anthony. These people oppose the bailouts and the national debt. They're as angry at their elected officials as they are the bankers and CEOs. They're a poor man's Tea Party.

But their outrage bears consideration. We bailed out these banks with our tax dollars and how do they thank us? By slashing jobs, padding their bonuses and hording their cash reserves like Scrooge McDuck in a panic room.

A recent egregious example? Bank of America (you know, those cats who just started charging five bucks a month for their debit cards) handed out $11 million to a pair of executives—whom they just fired. This after they announced they need to cut another 30,000 jobs.

We can agree (or not) about the Occupiers, Tea Partiers or Dancing with the Stars. We can watch the media cover each of these movements through completely different lenses, but until—or unless—things change, the streets will burn.