Herman Cain won the Florida Republican Straw poll yesterday, not that any of my Floridian friends or neighbors seem to have taken notice. The straw poll probably means as much as any other straw-stuffed bundle such as one might find on a pole in a corn field amusing the crows. I'm not sure how many Florida Republicans would actually have chosen him out of a line-up to be the Republican champion, even a line-up as motley and miserable as we're given to choose from at the moment, but he's preferable to Perry in a state still jealous for only being able to brag about Jeb Bush instead of his idiot brother from Texas.
But really, he might just be ideal. The perfect man to deflect the charges of racism Republicans face when making racist statements about Obama, would be the man who accused Jon Stewart of attacking Cain for racist reasons. Rovian tactics have rarely deviated from accusing the opponent of one's own glaring misdeeds, so who better to allow them to say: "you're against Cain because he's black" and "Liberals are racists."
He's just the sort of spontaneously and unwittingly hilarious clown Republicans love to vote for because what they say isn't what they said they said and so they've been for and against anything as suits the argument of the moment. "Reporters who quote me are stupid" and "compromise is killing this country" are the kinds of statements stupid and uncompromising people praise when sitting around the table, taking tea.
And of course he's made money in business, which leaves him immune to the jabs of Republican picadors such as Romney's assertion that Obama has never run a business and has spent his career in public service so he's not fit to serve the public which was asserted despite any clear indication that having been a businessman makes for a good president ( and much that says it isn't.)
And of course, the whole tea-brained idea of prosperity through parsimony is served well by recycling all that old McCain campaign material simply by painting over the
Mc and re-enlisting the delightful Mrs. Palin to distract from his unsuitability by flaunting hers. Think of the savings.
Capt. Fogg,
ReplyDeleteI was really rooting for Guv'nuh Goodhair to eclipse the Mittster, but said governor has fully justified Texans' new tag for GWB as "the smart one," so I guess that's out. I saw some clips of the recent debate (watching the whole thing would be a waste of life I can't abide) -- the man made no sense whatsoever, and Romney was trying real hard not to laugh out loud, which almost made him look like a regular guy.
So I guess I'll have to pin my hopes on Herman Cain now as the Tea-darling most unlikely to win the general election. Go Herman! You can do it!
In the end, though, I think the nominee will be Romney. Practically everybody dislikes him, but he looks the part he's auditioning for, and talks a good game. The Obama team might as will prepare for a campaign against Romney.
Shared your delightful piece of snark with a forum I'm on. Most enjoyable.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's a conspiracy and Romney pays these freaks to be freaky so he'll look like the only sane choice in comparison. Hey, it's no more ridiculous an idea that most of the idiocy they're trying to pin on Obama.
ReplyDeleteYou gotta give credit to the Rover for at least one thing. He is the Master of Projection and thought teleportation and always gives the rabble their cover. He can make them believe a honey bee is a cockroach, the unemployed are stinkbugs, and teachers and firemen are leeches. Pick any villain de jour; Rove makes it happen.
ReplyDeleteBut why raise Cain above this ragtag rabble? Is it because he cultivates the most belligerent mouth, and TeaHeads always pick the squeakiest wheel? And why does Republican dough always comes from half-baked pizza?
"He can make them believe a honey bee is a cockroach"
ReplyDeleteAnd as I say, the propensity to belief is a dangerous thing, because belief and denial are the same thing and are inseparable. Belief is a refuge for the good and kind as well as the stupid and angry and deranged and that's why so many Republicans love believing in their doctrines wherein the stupid and angry and deranged inherit the Earth.