The GOP's lobotomy

[jaxx]

Richard cohen
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Herman Cain is thinking of running for president. I learned this from an article by Dan Balz, The Post's chief political correspondent, so I know it's true. Cain is a Republican. He is the former chairman of Godfather's Pizza and calls himself "The Hermanator." If elected, he would be America's second African American president, the second in a row, actually, and the first of any race to be named Herman. You can, as I have done, look it up.

I now know slightly more about Cain than I do of John Thune, Mike Pence and Jon Huntsman. They are also mentioned as possible GOP presidential candidates. They join a field of better-knowns, which includes the inevitable Sarah Palin, the persistent Newt Gingrich, the ideologically flexible Mitt Romney, the religiously besotted Tim Pawlenty, the improbable Haley Barbour, the familiar Mike Huckabee, the diligently competent Mitch Daniels and the ferociously conservative Rick Santorum, who could not even hold on to his Senate seat. As this list makes clear, the Democrats will occupy the White House forever.

<..> The consequence of such views has to be crushing. It is simply impossible for a centrist to capture the Republican presidential nomination - maybe even to be a Republican. (I challenge any of the above to wholeheartedly endorse evolution or global warming.) The party continues on a course that has already driven out the political moderates and pro-choicers that once comprised its intellectual and financial core and, in the staffing of administrations, still somewhat does - Colin Powell, for instance. To call this a brain drain understates the calamity. It's a political lobotomy.

I upbraid myself for not knowing of "The Hermanator" and his possible presidential candidacy. But when I look over the GOP field, I see the wisdom in his candidacy. He must think, and not entirely without reason, that he's as good as any of the others. The pity is, he is.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...l_politics

[Velleity]

Someone "new" will have to emerge because the current crop of deadenders are just that. I have to use "new" in quotes because it will be the same whine in new bottles.

Ultimate recovery is not possible until the current crop dies off. Then I don't know. If our species evolves to the point where we are free of a critical mass of miscreants, we have a chance. Otherwise I'm afraid our children too will be hobbled with some other pernicious variant of these parasites.

[Capn Sunshine]

MCCAIN! ITS MCCAIN!
:happydance:

[jaxx]

If it was McCain I think we could safely bet Sister Sarah wouldn't be his running mate. ;-)

[Hekate]

That makes an enjoyable read -- although I really don't believe that "As this list makes clear, the Democrats will occupy the White House forever." Naah.

Still, it's nice to see that some in the punditocracy see the scars of the lobotomy and aren't afraid to say it out loud. Watching Tweety harass whoever that Tea Partier was about Michelle Bachman's grasp of US history was a thing of beauty and a joy to behold. (I tried to tell my hubby what Ms Bachman said about the Founding Fathers and slavery and he got that same look on his face that Tweety had -- you know, "Say what!?")

I recommend the whole article to those who haven't read it. Thanks for the post, Sass.

Hekate