The Flaccid Mandate: Republican Electile Dysfunction

[Better Believe It]

Weekend Edition December 2-4, 2011

The Flaccid Mandate
Electile Dysfunction
by GEORGE OCHENSKI

The Republican battle to produce a presidential candidate has been painful to watch. Right out of the chute we had Michele Bachmann, who apparently got an email from her god telling her she had to run. For a brief time, her religion-soaked torch blazed brightly as she declared herself the one viable candidate who could save the nation from its Sodom-and-Gomorrah path. And then, perhaps because her ego outlasted her ideas, she fell to the wayside.

Then it was Rick Perry’s turn to offer bullpucky about how, if only we’d let him, he’d turn all of America into one big Texas. I guess he forgot what the last Texan in the White House did to the country. The rest of us haven’t. Perry apparently has a hotline to his god, too. Unfortunately, the message from his deity didn’t seem to include any specifics about what exactly he was supposed to do to save the nation. Asked what departments he’d eliminate from the federal bureaucracy, Perry came up like a deer in the headlights—and so another leading Republican became roadkill on the road to the White House.

But not to worry, Republicans, you’ve got Big Daddy Herman Cain itching to take the lead—or you did until the ladies started talking. And talking. They just kept coming, warning the nation about Cain’s proclivities and, more importantly, his honesty. This week another Cain cuddle-bunny, Ginger White, came forward to say she had a 13-year affair with the pizza magnate and offered phone calls and emails to bolster her claim, leaving him well done.

Romney has staked out the not-so-unique position of being for a variety of issues before he was against them and against a variety of issues before he was for them. From mandated health insurance to reproductive rights, Romney’s record is laced with reversals that promise to dog him should the GOP decide to try to ride a Mormon horse to the presidency.

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