Why do GOP Morons Want to Be President?

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/11/15/1227/0910

Why do GOP Morons Want to Be President?

by BooMan
Tue Nov 15th, 2011 at 01:08:19 PM EST

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There is a strain of know-nothingness that has run through the Republican Party in the post-war years. We've had competent, but flawed, presidents like Eisenhower, Nixon, and Poppy Bush. We muddled through with Reagan, who was able to lean on Bush in many circumstances. But we've also flirted with Agnew and Quayle and Palin. And we had the absolute disaster of George W. Bush's two-term presidency.

And look at the field of candidates the Republicans are providing to us this time around. It's really an insult that they want us to seriously consider Herman Cain or Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann as potential presidents. They literally know nothing about anything, and what they think they know is wrong. We have Gingrich prattling on about the dangers of Shariah Law. He have Romney wanting to stay in Iraq, double the size of Gitmo, and zero out all our foreign aid commitments. The only candidate in the field who resembles a real presidential candidate is Jon Huntsman, who (campaign rhetoric aside) is at least worldly enough to have some clue how to behave on the international stage.

I know Dennis Kucinich has a quirky idea or two, but you can go back to JFK and not find any Democratic presidential candidates who were one-tenth as unprepared to be president as the majority of the current Republican candidates. I'm not talking about ideology. I'm talking about being able to find foreign countries on a map. You have Michele Bachmann decrying democratic governments in the Arab world and asking us to emulate communist China in our social policies. Nothing like that ever happened on the Democratic side.

I just think it is dangerous that we have one party in our two-party system that puts absolutely no premium on knowledge. These candidates should know better than to run. And the people should know better than to support them.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Nobody wants to hire them or put them on their Boards of Directors.

[Uben]

2. It's all about free money and recognition

They run because people give them money to do so....and lots of it. Wouldn't you? Travel around the U.S. in luxury spewing your favorite propoganda on someone else's dime with the media hanging on your every word. To a narcissist, that is heaven, and all politicians are narcissists.

[yellerpup]

4. Agree 100%.

:kick:

[opihimoimoi]

3. More AMAZING is the amount of PEEPs voting/supporting these nuts

[JaneQPublic]

5. They didn't use to be morons

Cain, Perry, and the rest used to be intellectual giants. But then someone slipped them HPV vaccinations...

:rofl:

[Fla Dem]

6. Other than maybe Huntsman and Romney, the others are all just in an extended

job interview for a gig on Fox. For them, running for president is simply a way to sell books and get on the lecture tour. It's a money making venture.

[zbdent]

7. exactly one word covers it all ... POWER.

the ultimate orgasm ...

[Cigar11]

8. POWER and $$$$$$$

... and not necessary in that order.

[SmittynMo]

9. Yep the republicans are crazy

I totally agree with you. They have no one with any bit of sense. However, there are the staunch Republicans will still vote Republican. And then they'll get the tea baggers. The good news is they wont even get close to Obama's votes.

[Orangepeel]

10. Only Romney wants to be president

And that's probably just because he doesn't know what else to do. Huntsman is running for 2016. The rest just want attention or to sell something.

[unblock]

11. it takes brains to understand that it's a sucky job.

beyond that, the republican agenda is completely devoid of intellectual or moral merit.
it all boils down to naked greed for the 1% and repression for the 99%.

that's intellectually indefensible, so actual intelligence is useless at best and may actually be a handicap for any republican presidential candidate.

what they're looking for is a frontman who can entertain, distract, and divide us so we don't focus on their financial and moral crimes. and that's exactly what they're getting.

[flamingdem]

12. It's a TRAP!! Seriously don't let's get too overconfident, y'never know what ROVE is cooking

up for a last minute entrance. How can he stand by and let this loss happen? He can't.

[progressoid]

13. You are what you eat.