A very excited out-of-work sports caster called TPP on the
phone last night. “Now’s the time!” And after reeling off the current set of
anti-Obama sound bites asked me to sign a petition in support of Sarah
Palindrone (someone who sounds just as dumb forward as backward) running for
the Senate from Alaska. Oh, yes, and a little
donation to the effort would be nice too. However the response that TPP wanted to leave was not an option.
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Now this raises quite an interesting question about politics
that this recording could not answer. How dumb is too dumb in ‘Mercan politics? TPP figured that we’d bottomed out and people
would come to their senses after electing Reagan. This shows TPP's political acumen. And then along comes W who made Ron sound and
look like a Rhodes Scholar. In the next
election cycle, the afore mentioned Palindrone was given way more attention
than anyone with so little to say and so little reason to say it and who will then say
it anyways with so much dumbth should ever be given. And she hasn’t improved. Perhaps it was Gov. Perry of Taxes who so
lowered the bar that Ms. Palindrone’s IQ rose in comparison because now some near
breathless people want her in the Senate.
"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low
objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation
in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different
United States (from an old WashPo article). What would Ralph think now about our virulent
mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism, ideology, and low
expectations? There are smart capable
people in the USA, but almost none of them are electable in this era of you-can’t-be-too-dumb
politics.