When Fox News hosts its Republican candidates forum Sunday night, one of the leading candidates won’t be invited.
In the campaign for the presidency, it goes without saying (not that that will stop me *heh*) that I view Billary “Whitewater” Klintoon, Barack Hussein Obama-Winfrey, Prancing Pony (AKA, The Breck Girl) and The Plagiarist as ranging from dangerous loons to marginally human creeps (The Plagiarist–lousy cheat).
But on the Republican’t side of the campaign for the presidency, the situation’s a little more complex. That The Android That Will Say Anything to Be Elected (no matter how stupidly he contradicts himself) is in the running at all is evidence that the electorate is as dumb as a bag of hammers and lazier than a sloth on a qualude-prozac cocktail. Can anyone say, “Do your frickin’ homework!”?
Ditto for the wannabe bentnose from Neeoo York City: copping a few unethical (and still under investigation–does he have friends in high places or what?) perks and bunches of backdoor bucks from his last office doesn’t bode well for his creds, and that’s not even counting the fact that the only street cred he has going for him is his hawkishness on terrorists.
Micky Huckacon? Gee, The Governor from Tyson Foods suddenly wants to be hard on illegal aliens (as long as they are from Pakistan; he still wants to give illegals who turn the crank at Tyson Foods ALL the benefits of citizenship–and more!), suddenly discovers within him a desire to build the fence (as long as Arkansas and other places can remain sanctuaries for alien invaders, that is). His kind of cant sells well to subliterates who believe that his heart’s in the right place. Yeh. Those are the folks who gave us Dhimi Kahtah…
John “Look at me! Look at me! I’m a hero, and the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind loves me for my embrace of socialism and alien invaders!” McCainiac. He lost me forever when he embraced and loudly proclaimed the lie that President Fifi Bush’s amnesty for alien invaders wasn’t amnesty for alien invaders. He’s still spreading that bullshit and the media is still lapping it up and serving it back uncritically. I wouldn’t hire him as a garbage man.
Aside from Thompson (who you might have gathered by now I think is the only sane man running who isn’t all lies from one end to the other), that leaves… Ron Paul.
Now, I’ve dismissed Ron Paul as a nut in the past without expanding on that comment, and that’s not fair to him. Frankly, were it not for his delusional personality, I’d as soon vote for him as Thompson. But. He’s deluded about the danger of Islamic terrorism and Islam in general. He’s embraced an utopian delusion that if we simply fled Iraq and embraced complete isolationism our problems with the world would be at an end. His idea that we ought to throw the Federal Reserve system in the ashcan and return to a gold standard is pie-in-the-sky utopianism. Sure, it’d be nice in a perfect world to simply upset all the applecarts at once and return to a simple agrarian society.
Riiiiight. Gonna happen. Not.
He’s a nut. A nut with some very, very attractive ideas (none of which are his own–a fact that adds to their luster, IMO) and who does believe as I do that we are no longer the republic of the Constitution. His prescriptions for retuirning to Constitutional government are so wildly out of sync with reality that they border on psychotic, though.
Nevertheless, the decision by Fox to exclude Ron Paul from the Fox News-hosted debate tonight is appalling. Even a nut–a nut who’s raised $20 million for his bid for the presidency and polls strongly, even trounced such leaders as Rudy-the-wannabe-bentbose Giuliani in Iowa–deserves a hearing in concert with the other candidates. Excluding him proves that Fox’s “fair and balanced” slogan is just that: a slogan and nothing more.
While I’d not vote for Ron Paul on a bet, simply because I am convinced his hold on reality is tenuous at best if for no other reason, he deserves to be heard.
Shame on you, Fox!
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