Every few years there is a vacuum of sorts in American politics.
Into that low pressure area rushes a gaggle of the darndest geese
you have every seen and this year is no exception.
I've often compared politics to the playing area of a pinball machine with live bumpers and flippers; balls bipping around and lots of noise and after a while you are out a quarter and the game is over. One particularly odius pinball has now appeared and just when you thought that every insufferable and self absorbed pinhead out there has been put into the cue, this giant one has plopped down in the midst and much to our utter amazement is getting the Lady Gaga star treatment. Where do we find these folks?Aside from talking about suceesion ... yes the break up the union type of stuff, he wants to abolish some amendments to the constitution and futz around with some of the original Articles. Federal judges shouldn't be given lifetime appointments. A council of elders should elect senators. No i
ncome tax. Congress can "over ride the supreme court". Pass a balance budget amendment. Make a federal amendent requiring marriage to be between a man and a woman. Illegalize abortion everywhere.
In the current state of things, Mitt Romney has claimed the left side of the far right that is the republican party. He represents what is known by GOP standards as a "moderate" as in a moderate version of Attila the Hun. To his right - dangling over a cliff at the edge of a flat world - the proverbial last guy holding on to the rope is this clown Ranger Rick Perry from Texas. Strung out in between are the rest of the gaggle of geese, almost none of whom will permit a Mormon to be the flag carrier. It is as if the party broke their collective necks looking over their right shoulders watching the loon try and honk like a goose.
I mean it is good for us on the left to see this oaf hog the far stage right and pander to the audience - limited as it is - but what does it tell you about this country and the state of things when this is what is produced as the best among us?
What in the world do people think of us?