badgenome said:
Maybe you have a point. Since Tea Party activists are on average more successful and better educated, and they're apparently this fucking dumb, I can only cringe to think how jaw-droppingly stupid the vaunted first time voters who swept Obama into office must be. |
It is no longer about experience, or competency, but who makes you feel good. You saw Hillary doing her thing and trying to spin and experience tale when she ran. And you have Obama and "Change". On the GOP side, you had people who LOVED Bush Jr. because he supposedly loves Jesus and talks to him (and you can drink a beer with him). And then there is the whole Sarah Palin thing now. The standards we call for for candidates drops lower and lower each time around.
If the Tea Party came out of the Ron Paul campaign folks, I seriously would expect far better from the signs they have up. This is just plain stuck on stupid at this point. The last election was getting stuck on stupid with air tire pressure made an issue, Joe the Plumber (spread the wealth around = socialist, as opposed to have wealth concentrated in fewer and fewer hands?) and who knows what else I forgot (Obama's presidential seal)? And what do we get now? People try to one up the level of stupid the other side is doing, in order to justify the level of stupid being seen. And being single issue where all you bring up is tax cuts as an answer to everything is dumb (Democrats outflanked on that).
William F Buckley Jr. would be taking people to the back of the woodshed to get things straightened out considering how low the discourse has sunk.
