Is there an Obama cheating scandal brewing? Perhaps. To me it sounds like a dead end.

PRESIDENT OBAMA has been caught in a shocking cheating scandal after being caught in a Washington, DC Hotel with a former campaign aide, sources say.

And now, a hush-hush security video that shows everything could topple both Obama’s presidency and marriage to Michelle!

A confidential investigation has learned that Obama first became close to gorgeous 35 year-old VERA BAKER in 2004 when she worked tirelessly to get him elected to the US Senate, raising millions in campaign contributions.

While the Enquirer has been hitting these kinds of accusations out of the park lately--while I don’t think we were in real danger of a President Edwards, let’s be honest, they didn’t just kill his presidential campaign, they killed his political career--it pays to be skeptical.

And if we find that he did cheat? Well, it doesn’t change much of anything, really. He won’t lose his job (although I suppose, if she were to refuse to play by normal rules, he might lose his wife). What he really stands to lose is the continued goodwill of a lot of the citizens of the nation, the next presidential election, and possibly some of his support in congress. It would probably be a brutal blow to Democrats hopes of keeping mid-term losses to normal levels, as well, because that kind of thing would bleed into the rest of the party.

But the real issues of the day--energy policy, foreign policy, budgetary crisis, health care, immigration, and national salt intake--won’t change. My advice to conservatives who might feel the need to dive headlong into this possible scandal: keep your heads about you, keep preparing for the real debates, and let the story unfold in its own time.

Whether President Obama cheated or not might make our jobs a little easier, but it won’t hand us victory. We’ll need to win the debates on merit.

Anyway, rest of the story--as much as there is--can be found here.