STUCK ON STUPID
Up until election day in 2008, I could not make myself believe that a majority of American voters were suicidally stupid enough to elect a Hate America Empty Suit (O=Zero, June 2008) as their president.
The choice between him and an obnoxious Rino jerk like McCain was ridiculous. It was nonetheless a no-brainer, as McCain was for all his flaws a patriotic American with no intention to harm and impoverish his country on purpose. Ever since, I chalked up their choice three long years ago to a spasm of temporary insanity. Until now.
Surely, the American people will come to their senses, I was convinced. Now I am wondering, what if they no longer have any senses to come back to? Did they shoot their bolt of rationality with the congressional and state elections in 2010, then lapse into political derangement as before?
The Real Clear Politics polling average shows a consistent approval rating for Zero at around 43%. They comprise the Moocher Class, public workers and other parasites living off the Producer Class. Zero’s goal is to expand the Moocher Class into a majority of voters, and he’s well on his way.
Yet they are not the ones stuck on stupid. They are stuck on mooching, which isn’t the same thing. The ones stuck on stupid are those who continue to pay the moochers, who agree to be sacrificial lambs – and who insist on getting excited about alternatives to Zero as absurd as John McCain.
I am, of course, talking about Newt Gingrich. I am, quite frankly, in a state of shock at the stupidity of support for him. He is a mean, insufferable, arrogant, pompous Rockefeller Republican, an ethanol-subsidizing global-warming crony-capitalist ludicrously hypocritical pretend conservative.
Here is just the start, just a hint, of his anti-conservative actions (provided by a friend):
04/02/1987 – cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine
10/22/1991 – voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
03/–/1993 – voted for sending $1.6 billion in foreign aid to Russia.
1/27/1994 – supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
08/27/1995 – suggests that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.
04/25/1996 – voted for the then single largest increase on federal education spending ($3.5 billion)
04/10/1995 – supported federal taxdollars being spent on abortions.
06/01/1996 – helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in the 1996 election.
09/25/1996 – introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
01/22/1997 – Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
11/29/2006 – said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism, called for a "serious debate about the 1st Amendment."
02/15/2007 – supports Bush’s proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
09/28/2008 – says if in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
09/30/2008 – releases his book A Contract with the Earth which embraces man-made global warming.
12/08/2008 – paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
03/31/2009 – says we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.
11/15/2010 – defends Romneycare
01/30/2011 – lobbies for ethanol subsidies.
01/30/2011 – suggests that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
02/13/2011 – criticizes Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.
03/09/2011 – blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.
03/15/2011 – says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
03/19/2011 – has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (now $7.2T unfunded liability)
03/23/2011 – completely flip-flops on Libyan intervention in 16 days.
03/25/2011 – plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.
04/25/2011 – admits he is a paid lobbyist for federal ethanol subsidies.
07/15/2011 – his poorly managed campaign is over $1 million in debt.
08/01/2011 – hires a company to create fake Twitters to appear as if had a following.
11/16/2011 – revealed he actually received $1.6 million lobbying for Freddie Mac, vs. his previously stated $300,000
This list could go on and on. Here’s more. Further, he has no executive or private business experience whatever. Until he cashed in with lobbying contracts after he resigned from Congress in 1999, he never worked a day in the private sector. Like Zero, he taught at a state school (University of West Georgia) until becoming a professional politician (Congressman from Georgia 1979-1999). He is an ultimate Washington insider.
Yet, as reported today in the Weekly Standard, Gingrich has a 30 point lead over Romney in Florida: 47% to 17% for Romney, 15% for Herman Cain, 5% for Ron Paul, 4% for Michele Bachmann, 3% for Jon Huntsman, 2% for Rick Perry, 1% for Rick Santorum, and 0% for Gary Johnson – and he’s appealing to "every segment of the Republican electorate," the Tea Party in particular.
This is nuts. As in certifiably insane. We are witnessing 2008 all over again only worse, with no excuses whatever. Whatever part of their brains Tea Partiers are using to support Gingrich, it’s not the prefrontal cortex (responsible for rational thought and judgment). Their limbic system is running the show and turned their minds into mush.
It’s time for a confession. I have been begging – begging – Sarah Palin to endorse Rick Perry. He is far and away the most successful governor in America, and the longest serving (2000 to present) – thanks to his last reelection (2010) made possible by Sarah’s endorsement of him over Kay Bailey Hutchinson.
The presidency requires executive experience – and no one has more of it, and has been better at it, of all the Pub candidates than Perry. This eliminates Paul, Bachmann, and Santorum who have zero.
Cain has it in business. Romney, Huntsman, and Johnson have it in both business and as governors – Johnson with two terms, Romney and Huntsman only one (Hunstman was reelected but soon resigned to be Zero’s Ambassador to China; I must admit to a fondness for Johnson as he climbed Mount Everest).
It’s Perry’s superior executive success combined with his solid conservative values and dedication to the 10th Amendment – the only mechanism that will dismantle unconstitutional government – that causes me to beg Sarah. The only answer I get is that she is "praying hard" about it daily and is sharing her thoughts with no one.
That said, the failure of Tea Partiers and other Republicans to get behind the candidate of my choice certainly does not make them stupid. Of course not. But a limbic desperation to embrace an "anti-Romney" who is the antithesis of all they claim to politically and morally stand for does make them dumb as mud.
This is the Ball Game, folks. 2012 is the Big Enchilada. Our country lives or dies with the choice voters make next year, and ABO is not sufficient. Read Skye’s Shapes of Things to Come for a glimpse of the challenge Zero’s replacement faces. (Then again, if Zero is reelected, then it’s time to abandon ship and move to Tuvalu. I’ll open a dive shop in Funafuti.)
There’s no more serious and consequential electoral choice we’ll ever make than who is our next president. Which means it’s got to be the most rational political choice we ever make. The most sober, the least stupid. The most stupid would be Newt Gingrich. Let’s hope Republican voters and especially Tea Partiers get unstuck on stupid quickly.