On the next episode of Desperate Mansionwives...

What have I seen on TV? I'm a fan of the show Desperate Housewives. I enjoy the way the characters can manage to get themselves into some rather impossible situations, and the even more impossible methods they think up to get out of them. While waiting for the new season to start, it seems as if I'm getting political substitute in the form of certain parties trying to find their way to an election victory.

The show features a woman named Bree Van de Kamp (now Bree Hodge), who has been brought to the forefront of my attention when regarding a certain young woman who might be running for the office of Vice President. Bree is known for being very proper and upstanding. She is a regular attendee at church, is very involved in her community, and knows her way around firearms. She also has some skeletons in her closet from time to time. One of the those skeletons came from her daughter having unprotected sex at an early age. In order to save face, Bree sent her daughter to a convent in Switzerland to stay for the rest of her pregnancy, but told everyone she was "continuing her studies" in Europe. Knowing that her daughter wouldn't want to keep the baby, Bree began wearing a fake belly to look pregnant to the outside world with the intention of raising the baby as her own after it was born.

What happened now? There are a number of stories I have become aware of that point to a similar tale that could try to combine a Desperate Housewives-like story with one not unlike The West Wing! What if Bree's Wisteria Lane was in a the booming metropolis of Wasilla, Alaska? How about it if Bree's strong sense of duty let her to run for Mayor, then Governor of the state? What if her daughter, Danielle, was taken out of school for eight months because of a particularly strong case of mononucleosis, instead of calling it traveling abroad, because she was actually pregnant? What if Bree was being considered as a possible candidate for Vice President of the United States, and realized that the shallow covering for her daughter's actions might not stand up to nationwide scrutiny?

How would you make the scheme less susceptible to leaks and holes? If I were Bree, I might consider a new twist. It might be a fitting lesson for my daughter (now leading a much more public and responsible life) to strap on my fake pregnant belly for a few months, just long enough for it to establish the impossibility of the real pregnancy having been hers. After a few months, I could trump up some story about how the pregnancy was threatening my daughter's life. If my daughter was behaving well, she wouldn't need to be dealt with directly, but could simply lose the belly.

That would be some real entertainment.

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