by Allen Clifton
If you follow politics at all you’re probably well
aware that, for the most part, it’s just a dog and pony show. As
voters, the simple fact is we are completely ridiculous. While both
liberals and wingnuts will complain about the dishonesty of
government, or how we’re sick of politicians not representing the
American people, we still continue to elect those who just tell us what
we want to hear – whether or not what they’re telling us is true. In
fact, honest politicians usually get destroyed by the base of each party
because once in a while they might dare to step outside of their usual
political ideologies on some issues, which enrages the mobs of
wingnut fundamentalists.
That being said, what this has created is a political environment where
politicians are so scripted that it’s amazing how often they’re asked
very simple questions, yet have no idea how to answer them – because
they haven’t been coached how to.
Take for instance a simple question several Republican pretender
candidates were asked by CNN: Who do you think is the greatest president
alive today?
“Obviously the greatest president of my lifetime is ronny raygun,” said
Louisiana's idiot Bobby Jindal.
“I’ll leave that to the people to decide,” Texas' moron Ted Cruz said.
“Certainly the greatest president of recent generations was ronny raygun.”
“I was a big fan, a very big fan of ronny raygun,” answered the insane racist Donald
Trump.
Meanwhile the nutjob Rick Perry ignored the question (actually a smart move), the unstable Ben
Carson said he didn’t know and the lunatic Rick Santorum said “probably a bush.”
Let me start out by pointing out the obvious: raygun died 11 years ago
and the question was concerning a living president. Though I love how
Cruz is so disingenuous that his answer to “what do you think” prompted a
“let the people decide” response - even though that answer made
absolutely no sense. Then there’s Trump who cited raygun, even though
he’s repeatedly called Bill Clinton his favorite president.
I’ll admit this question is a bit of a trap, but that’s only because
the shrub was such a terrible pretender. If you ask a Democrat this
question in 6 to 8 years, they’ll be able to proudly say Bill Clinton
or Barack Obama, without even the slightest bit of hesitation. But
Republicans can’t do that because George H.W. Bush couldn’t even get
re-elected and. even though it’s over six years after he left office, no
Republican wants to be caught publicly saying the shrub is their
favorite living president.
And naturally none of them are going to say Clinton (the husband of
their likely 2016 opponent) or Jimmy Carter.
Ironically, Rick Perry showed the most intelligence of all of these
candidates by simply ignoring the question completely. Most of the GOP
hopefuls are so caught up in their inability to be anything but hacks
regurgitating talking points that they tried to answer the question –
then proceeded to make fools out of themselves by saying their “favorite
living president” is someone who’s been dead for over a decade.
That shows you just how bad shrub’s junta was. These candidates
would rather cite someone who’s been dead for over a decade, making
themselves look like fools in the process, rather than name the last
president to serve from their party. They know that the shrub’s
name is so incredibly toxic that it could ruin their entire campaign.
