The 2012 Election Field Is an Embarrassment to Democracy

[kpete]

The 2012 Election Field Is an Embarrassment to Democracy
November 7, 2011 at 2:17PM by Charles P. Pierce


Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/2012-election-field-6547238#ixzz1d93BIVbz

By any conventional measure, and entirely through their own fault, the Republicans have produced a field of candidates so utterly comical, so completely devoid of conventional political merit, that the field itself is a strong evidence for the elimination of the Republican party. The frontrunner is a simuloid fake. The leading contender is a horndog as surprised to discover that women did not want him as he was to discover that China had The Bomb. The leading “intellectual” thinks Barack Obama “...is about as candid and accurate as Bernie Madoff in what he tells the American people” and then, of course, decries the incivility that is drowning out the important discussion we need to have about the issues facing This Great Nation. The rest of them are concerned about zygotes, black helicopters, and whatever else is simmering in the Bachmann-Paul-Santorum stewpot. And there is Jon Huntsman, the invisible former governor of Utah, reasonably sentient human, and proven non-horndog. This isn’t a primary campaign field. It’s a condo-board election at the Hell Country Estates.


My god, Caligula died centuries too soon. Today, if he’d brought his horse into the Senate, some careerist Beltway journo would find that the horse had whinnied some “interesting new approaches” to our “entitlement crisis.” The horse would be on Meet the Press the following Sunday with David Gregory, who would ignore the fact that there is a f..king horse sitting across the table from him and concentrate instead on something the horse had whinnied five years ago that seems to have been contradicted by something the horse whinnied the day before. And then Tom Brokaw would come on to mumble something about how horses were more politically savvy back in his day.

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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/2012-election-field-6547238#ixzz1d8GLlkup

[Vincardog]

1. Does anyone else believe that that the PTB already have their man in DC? Hence the Clown Car

race for the GOP.

[monmouth]

2. On Morning Joe this morning they were bemoaning how sad Gov.

Christie must feel, how he could have and hopefully might jump into the fray. Willie and Heileman said they thought Christie must be kicking himself. Personally, I think Christie is saying rosary daily thanking the lord he did what he did. Have to admire his forethought on that...LOL.

[Desertrose]

3. More like an embarrassment to our country.....nt

[Jim Lane]

4. No, it's a credit to democracy -- giving the people what they want.

In this instance, "the people" is the Republican primary electorate. They have shown that they respond positively to right-wing cant, including economic nonsense, jingoism, moves toward theocracy, absurd attacks on Democrats, etc. Therefore, the democratic system is giving the people what they've shown they want.

Don't blame the system. Blame the voters, and those who've spent years so successfully bamboozling them.