A Florida man who claims to be the direct decedent of Vlad II the Impaler announced he will be running for President of the United States in 2012. Naturally, as kin to Dracula, Jonathon Sharkey will be running as a Republican on the G.O.P. ticket. He plans to hold a press conference in Tampa on Monday to announce his plans.

He does believe in Republican values, Matthews said. Is he going to make a big splash with his current identification of being a vampire? That's up to the voters to decide.

Matthews said he'd help Sharkey with campaign basics, just like he would any Republican candidate. But he's been trying to advise him to focus on mainstream issues and away from the extreme behaviors. Sharkey, meanwhile, continues to develop a movie on his campaign, The True Impaler.

A life of failed political attempts is nothing new to Sharkey. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000, Governor of Minnesota in 2006, and has ran for President in 2004 and 2008. Another thing Sharkey has going for him is a long history of being a creepster. He brags that he hasn't dated a girl older than 19 since 2006. Currently 45-years-old, Sharkey is now seeing 19-year-old Audrianna Foster, who he met online and also believes she is a vampire.

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