Stupid voters enable broken government

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/opinion/granderson-broken...

Exhibit B would be Newt Gingrich, who cheated on two wives and is the only speaker of the House to have been disciplined for ethics violations. And yet somehow he is running for president of the United States as a religious conservative and managed to get 8% of the votes during last week's straw poll in Florida.

Are you freaking kidding me?

The fact that he is even on camera discussing the country's sense of morality during the GOP debates should be offensive to any thinking person regardless of party affiliation. And yet someone, right now, is thinking about sending his campaign a check.

But they are because of us. So can we genuinely complain about government without accepting a lot of the blame? I don't think so. After all, they didn't elect themselves. So if we want government to work, we have to be smarter about our choices. It's one thing to have a population with a variety of political sensibilities; it's another to be a country full of idiots. Too many times we vote and consequently govern like the latter.

[dkf]

1. Or maybe voters are insisting on no compromise.

I see it here a lot.

[TheWraith]

4. The same voters who said in 2010 "we want completely divided government"?

Yeah, that's a real endorsement that voters know what they're doing and are all unifiedly pushing a single coherent agenda.

[RZM]

2. 8 percent in a straw poll? Stop the presses!

That's nothing compared to the many politicians who have committed serious ethical or legal violations while and office and have been returned to power with majority support in actual elections.

Joe Blow the campaigning giraffe could get 8 percent in a straw poll. This means next to nothing.

[David Sky]

5. But look who got 30+% in that poll.... PIZZA MAN!

And straw poll people have to get up and actually GO there to vote.

Major stupid!

[RZM]

6. Probably it was a combination of things

One being an anti-frontrunner backlash. The other being Cain's Ross Perot style appeal as a businessman and not a politician.

[Drale]

3. This goes far deeper then that

I would say, Stupid people enable a broken society.