Monday, June 28, 2010
Politics About those Republican candidates ...
Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:37 AM
Everything looks good politically for the Republican Party this year, John Brummett writes. Except for one small thing: Wackjob candidates.
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You summed it up about right John of course you could have kept right on going but think everyone got the point! Then there's Hucking-The-Buck that will take up your whole article next time.
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It's about time Brummett described Plantation Blanche, Mike Ross, and Berry's chosen replacement so concisely. /s
And the entire Republican lineup too.
Brummett writes as though the American voters are just throwing a temper tantrum, and, instead of being responsible and making sense, are engaging in childish thinking, as if those who yell long enough about how unhappy they are will get candidates who promise to do them something: "Most Americans don’t like health care reform, at least for now. They fear the deficit and debt. They think the stimulus was a bust. They’re frustrated with a government that can’t get oil to stop spewing. They’re fed up with one that can’t manage to put a general in charge of a war who has better sense than to hang out over a few six packs with a writer for Rolling Stone magazine."
He writes as though we deserve...wait.... Maybe he's right.
It's as simple as this......do voters want to replace the people having a hell of a hard time trying to save America from the ruin brought on by 8 years of George W. Bush & Dick Cheney, with the same party that FK'ed everything up in the first place?
This would be like bringing back Hitler to Germany in 1948. This would be like giving the drunk captain of the Exxon Valdez a whole fleet of tankers to command. This would be like giving box cutters and free airline tickets to everyone in the Middle East!
Do you people not remember which party brought us to ruin just a few short years ago? Have you been asleep since 2001? I'm pretty sure the American Way has never been to reward the bad guys. And look at the crazy sons of bitches the Republicans are running! My god, the hospital in Benton has saner folks drooling in the halls.
John Boozman isn't insane, he's not really a bad guy. He just shouldn't be in politics because he's too weak and too much of a non-thinker to keep the Cheney crowd from using his hand to cast every vote. In his time in office, he's voted against everything good including medical help for sick children. I'm thankful he's not Rand Paul. But he has no business in the Senate. However, he'd make a hell of a good Wal-Mart greeter.
Bad Blanche's voting hand isn't any better. But instead of automatically voting her party's line every time, giant corporations move her voting hand like the do-hickey on a weegie board and the end result is Arkansas remains “one of the rock bottomest of states”, as old dead Robert Byrd once called his home state of West Virginia.
Since there isn't a good candidate running for the Senate from Arkansas this November, I plan on writing in a name of my choosing. Voting for bad guys makes YOU a bad guy too and I'll have none of that!
Remember......do we want the people trying to fix things or the people who FK'ed them up in the first place? Seems like a real easy choice to me.
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