For anyone who thought the 2012 presidential race hasn't become wild and crazy enough, Roseanne Barr may have a candidacy for you.

Last week, the Green Party officially accepted Barr as one of several candidates vying to become that party's presidential nominee. The Greens make their picks for national office candidates in July.

While she may not be as colorful (or at least as orange) as Donald Trump or as clueless yet forceful-sounding as Rick Perry, Barr could bring a welcome element of fringe-candidate outrageousness to the campaign from a path Stephen Colbert is unlikely to travel.

Barr, a comedian turned Macadamia nut farmer and reality show star, is likely to have a perspective on running a campaign much different from the career pols in the race. The first two planks of Barr's platform -- no war and no BS -- are hard to find fault with. But she may have already violated the spirit of plank #2 by seeking to become the prime minister of Israel while simultaneously running for president.  She calls the gambit a "Green Tea Party two-fer."

Unlike Mitt Romney, who doesn't see the need for it, Barr has a plan for fixing the safety net for the nation's poor -- and it may well involve stitching it up with hemp, the production of which she would legalize.

Barr also would forgive all student loans, credit card debt and homeowner debt, institute single-payer health care, and if it turns out corporations are in fact people, "they should not be able to form unions," she Tweeted on Friday.

I'd feel better about her chances of delivering on her promises if a lack of good judgment wasn't such an indelible part of her life:  She's the only presidential candidate with Tom Arnold's name tattooed on her butt.

On a more down-to-earth note, Barr said in her Green Party candidacy questionnaire that she plans to "barnstorm American living rooms" through televised campaign appearances. "Mainstream media will be unable to overlook me," she wrote, "but more importantly, they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election."

While Barr may not have been an 'average American' since she left Salt Lake City in 1969, moved to Los Angeles, and worked her way to the top ranks of comedy, she did portray a convincing, and funny, blue-collar wife and mom during her nine-year run on the ABC series "Roseanne."  It may not be much, but it's a closer connection to the working class than a couple of her presidential rivals.

I didn't get a chance to see "Roseanne's Nuts," the Lifetime "reality" series about Barr's life on her Hawaiian macadamia nut ranch, before it was canceled last year.  But I have enjoyed seeing her in the Snickers candy bar ad that debuted during last year's Super Bowl.  In the ad, she portrays a whiny member of a timber cutting crew, who complains about her back hurting just before she gets cold-cocked by a swinging log boom.

I don't know which part I like best -- the satisfying "thunk" that temporarily ends her grating whine, or the whiny, never-give-up retort of "Now my front hurts" that she offers after she's knocked to the ground.

She'll need that kind of spirit to put up with all the BS she'll have to endure before she can bring it to an end as president.

If she does win, though, one request:

No "Star-Spangled Banner" duet with Steven Tyler on inauguration day.