Why GOP embraces simpletons and how it hurts America

For the record: I do.

And I seriously believe someone actively supporting the party, by campaigning for a candidate, etc., who is not a millionaire is intellectually flawed.

 

Osama Bin Laden takes the credit for creating massive American debt.

 

That was part of his intent, and in that area, he succeeded, beyond his wildest dreams.

 

Bingo. The real GOP, without co-opting social conservatives (aka "the base"), is too small to win an election. So you have evolution deniers dragging down the party. That's why a fairly bright guy like Huntsman, who would have a chance to take a lot of independent votes, can't get a shot these days.

 

This just kills me.

Hunsman makes George W. Bush look accomplished by comparison. Ooh, he speaks Mandarin!

If he was leading in the polls, liberals/the media/the liberal media would be beating him up as an unaccomplished little rich kid who's never done anything without his daddy's help.

He's be another silver spoon Republican who thinks he's owed the nomination.

He's be a "weird" Mormon who wears funny underwear.

He's be a right winger, who'd lead our nation to ruin.

But, since he's at 1%, he's all that and a bag of chips.

It's like the Dems are trying to replicate Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" and keep another challenger alive.

Not going to happen. Huntsman is irrelevant.

We already have a rich, Mormon, former Governor in the race. We don't need a second one.

 

Silver writes the GOP's years of sowing distrust of institutions might be coming home to roost.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/mistrust-of-institutions-may-touch-g-o-p-itself/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

The discussion was about brains, I thought. Among this ridiculous lineup, who do you consider a qualified candidate. I will likely laugh at any answer, though, because there isn't one.

 

Romney. He's clearly smart & accomplished.

 

Which one? The former Massachusetts governor, which I could understand, or the one who's sold his soul in each of the past two presidential cycles to pander to the "The Base?"

 

He's refused to call "Romney Care" a mistake, and had defended. That's not pandering.

Some of his positions have "evolved" but that likely has as much to do with him having had to "pander" previously to Massachusetts voters.

 

There is an art to flip-flopping so you appear to be thoughtful instead of desperately pandering. Romney hasn't come close to mastering it. The Daily Show last night had two clips- one from the infamous Fox News interview and one from May 31, in which Romney each time said he "just finished" reading George Bush's "Decision Points." C'mon, Mitt, have you no dignity?

 

So, he read it twice?