Stupid takes a step towards the White House.

[Rum]

Neither Bachmann, nor Palin would stand a chance in a general election.

Palin and Bachmann

..for President and Vice President!

[Feck]

Neither Bachmann, nor Palin would stand a chance in a general election.

Palin and Bachmann

..for President and Vice President!

Oh YEEEESSS !

[Tero]

I think the teapartiers will have their fun, with Bachman or Mr Texas, but Mitt R. is going to have to decide what to do with them when he gets the nomination. The closest they got to a man in the white house, or will, is the founder of antigovernment in modern times, Reagan.

[Rum]

I think the teapartiers will have their fun, with Bachman or Mr Texas, but Mitt R. is going to have to decide what to do with them when he gets the nomination. The closest they got to a man in the white house, or will, is the founder of antigovernment in modern times, Reagan.

Reagan , often credited with being the forbear of the Tea partry, who paradoxically increased government expenditure by leaps and bounds.

[Ian]

A little post I've made on this subject a few months ago:

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... on#p848523

[apophenia]

A little post I've made on this subject a few months ago:

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... on#p848523

Reminds me, I was for Nixon at the time. After watching Wallace get shot, I thought he was our only hope for ending the war.

Politics is funny, it can make a single issue utterly ruin a candidate, e.g. Dukkakis and Willie Horton. (Or save one.)

I actually welcome a Bachmann candidacy -- and for more than comedic value, though there is that -- I can't imagine another Republican candidate who would be as ineffectual in office if elected. And then there's the female factor....

New GOP Strategy Involves Reelecting Obama, Making His Life Even More Miserable

[hadespussercats]

I think the influence of the Iowa Straw Poll is over-rated.

But Bachman is definitely the cray-cray. I can't figure out how these people get so popular.

[Robert_S]

I think the influence of the Iowa Straw Poll is over-rated.

But Bachman is definitely the cray-cray. I can't figure out how these people get so popular.

they appeal to the vacuous self-satisfaction that seems so rampant in our culture.

[hadespussercats]

I think the influence of the Iowa Straw Poll is over-rated.

But Bachman is definitely the cray-cray. I can't figure out how these people get so popular.

they appeal to the vacuous self-satisfaction that seems so rampant in our culture.

Is it a sort of vicarious thrill, you think? Like, "Hey, s/he isn't that different from me-- which means I could be president, if I really wanted it..."

[Robert_S]

I think the influence of the Iowa Straw Poll is over-rated.

But Bachman is definitely the cray-cray. I can't figure out how these people get so popular.

they appeal to the vacuous self-satisfaction that seems so rampant in our culture.

Is it a sort of vicarious thrill, you think? Like, "Hey, s/he isn't that different from me-- which means I could be president, if I really wanted it..."

Never stopping to think "Fuck! I'm not really qualified to deal with that job at all!"

[hadespussercats]

I think the influence of the Iowa Straw Poll is over-rated.

But Bachman is definitely the cray-cray. I can't figure out how these people get so popular.

they appeal to the vacuous self-satisfaction that seems so rampant in our culture.

Is it a sort of vicarious thrill, you think? Like, "Hey, s/he isn't that different from me-- which means I could be president, if I really wanted it..."

Never stopping to think "Fuck! I'm not really qualified to deal with that job at all!"

Yes!

I'd love to be absolutely outclassed in every respect by a presidential candidate-- someone smarter, more insightful, more educated on a wider variety of subjects, funnier, better-looking, more athletic, you name it.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to vote for a real hero? Why wouldn't you want your leader to be better than you?

[Ian]

Is it a sort of vicarious thrill, you think? Like, "Hey, s/he isn't that different from me-- which means I could be president, if I really wanted it..."

Never stopping to think "Fuck! I'm not really qualified to deal with that job at all!"

Yes!

I'd love to be absolutely outclassed in every respect by a presidential candidate-- someone smarter, more insightful, more educated on a wider variety of subjects, funnier, better-looking, more athletic, you name it.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to vote for a real hero? Why wouldn't you want your leader to be better than you?

That would go against the "folksy" principle. We'd love it, but we're not folksy. Voters in GOP primaries, especially places like Iowa, are all about the plain-spoken candidates who can hang out at the state fair.

[Feck]

Think! the first US woman President ... the women of America should stand together and vote Palin Bachman !

[Ian]

Think! the first US woman President ... the women of America should stand together and vote Palin Bachman !

While I abhor pretty much everything those two stand for, I gotta admit that the comedic value of a Palin or Bachmann presidency would be through the roof. Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert could become billionaires.

[Warren Dew]

Wouldn't it be great to be able to vote for a real hero? Why wouldn't you want your leader to be better than you?

I have to say, I've never thought of the president as my leader, except when I was in the military.

I think of voting as more like selecting an employee.