So You Think You Can be President? Musings on the Republican Candidates/Donald Kaul

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There's no sign so far that Republicans actually care which candidate would make the best President

Donald Kaul
www.otherwords.org



Rick Perry 'toonified



Likening Social Security to a Ponzi scheme was the least crazy thing Perry said during the recent debate among Republican presidential candidates.

In a country with a functional political system, Rick Perry's presidential candidacy would be laughed out of the room.

I mean, really. This is the 21st century, right? It's the information age.

Is it reasonable to take seriously a candidate who doesn't believe in evolution, is contemptuous of even the possibility of climate change, and calls the chairman of the Federal Reserve a traitor for attempting to help the economy?

It…is…not.

Gov. Perry's dismissal of global warming is especially ironic. His state, Texas, is in the midst of the hottest weather and longest drought in its history. Fittingly, when Perry led a mass prayer meeting to ask God for relief, God answered by giving him the biggest wildfire in the state's history.

You might imagine that the "lamestream media" — the aggressive left-leaning press that exists largely in the fevered imaginations of the hard right — would characterize him as a fool and buffoon.

It…does…not.

It considers him a legitimate candidate, a worthy opponent for President Barack Obama. Actually, he's dumber than Michele Bachmann.



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1. "when Perry led a mass prayer meeting to ask God for relief, God answered by giving him the biggest

wildfire in the state's history"

K&R. n/t