In these times of crumbling Empire, dysfunctional government and inept economic policy, we political junkies must take our pleasures where we find them. I wrote last week that if things turned out right we’d have a Michelle Bachmann-Sarah Palin fight to watch soon-the Iron Chef of crazy, if you will. Well, it’s already here. Ed Rollins, Michelle’s soon to be campaign manager (these people will do anything for money) has fired the opening shot, and the Sarah folks have fired back.
Rollins is positioning his candidate as the” just as hot but not as stupid” crazy lady. I’d like to think he’s right on the latter point, since I have a personal stake in believing that it takes a minimal amount of brains to get into law school. Then again, I’ve met some awful dumb lawyers.
This fight promises to be boffo box office and will take the air out of any number of candidacies. Mitt may be right that these two are good for him. He may be the only one positioned, by virtue of his money, to survive the benign neglect that the other candidates will endure. In an ordinary year I’d say this is horrible for the Republic, since the media will be concentrating on these crazy people and not cover the real issues. But there are no candidates for the Republican nomination who one can view as anything short of a national disaster, should Obama manage to succeed in throwing the election their way, so it is almost irrelevant which one gets the nomination eventually. The press is free to cover or ignore as it pleases, because every one of them is spouting inanities, often for the sole purpose of getting that press coverage. Perhaps Mitt, uber-hypocrite that he is, is the best choice, because if Obama does manage to give it away, Mitt would feel no compunction about breaking every promise he made in the campaign.
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