Where would we be without the valuable political insight provided by Politico.

You remember this guy. His video of a double rainbow went viral because he looked like a blithering moron in it, wondering loudly and repeatedly what this natural and completely explainable phenomenon meant.

So clearly we should turn to him for insight into the 2012 election.

Nicknamed “Bear” by his friends thanks to his scraggly looks, Vasquez is better known as the “Double Rainbow” guy who became a YouTube sensation last year when his video of a double rainbow in California went viral. It earned him both notoriety – and mockery – even getting a mention by Jimmy Fallon on his late-night show.

Vasquez’s video has been viewed nearly 32 million times on Youtube.

Riding his 15 minutes of fame, Vasquez teased presidential ambitions in — what else — a YouTube video in May but, as the new year approaches he isn’t exactly amping up his 2012 operation, in part, he says, because President Barack Obama looks bound for a second term.

“Once he’s really geared up, he’s going to be hard to beat. They say any Republican can beat him, but I think that when he really gears up, people are just going to re-elect him,” Vasquez said. “I think he’s had a tough job. I think he was left with a big mess, so I think that, overall, he’s done a pretty good job. Do I think he could have done better? Yeah, everyone can always do better.”

But Vasquez says Obama still remains the best option, including the current field of Republican candidates.

“I think he deserves to keep going because I think the alternative — getting a Republican back in office — is scary.”

Hey, look. The blithering idiot who marvels at regular occurrences in nature is an Obama supporter. Go figure.

Turns out he also has an interest in politics. Might even run in 2016. His priority? Wildly overreacting to global warming:

“If I were to get elected president, I would declare a state of emergency,” Vasquez said. “I would create a section of government, like Homeland Security, but it would be for alternative energy and that department would be in charge of making sure that we maximize our efforts to get ourselves on alternative energy. We need to get off foreign oil in this country. It’s depleting our resources and it’s depleting our environment and it’s making it so that we cannot survive on this planet anymore.”

Because hey, you know what works well and efficiently? The Department of Homeland Security. People are always saying, “If only the private sector was as cost-efficient and produced the same quality results as the Department of Homeland Security.”

Also, we don’t need foreign oil in this country? I agree completely. Let’s tap into our domestic oil resources in the continental United States, offshore, and in Alaska. We have more oil than most countries in the world, including those from which we import supplies today. Tell your unbeatable buddy to get on that, champ.