Monkey and a Bowling Ball

It must be the latest fraternity joke from the GOP. Eight years ago we were all so happy that George W. Bush won the party candidacy against John McCain because everyone thought, "this unstable dullard child in an old guy's body won't stand a chance against a reserved, intelligent and experienced leader like Al Gore." Well, we were partially right because they hadn't completely finished their evil empire rigging of the voting machines, so they needed a little help from a "stacked deck" supreme court, but...

You would think that people would be a little irate at the guy that pissed off the rest of the world by choosing not to participate in any treaties, dropped the ball on 9/11, started an illegal occupation that killed who knows how many people based on a bold-faced lie, gave us the Patriot Act, Gitmo complete with extraordinary rendition, Enron/WorldCom, Katrina, The War on Terror, faith-based something, a new bankruptcy law, a complete housing market crash, tax-cuts to create a gazillion dollar debt, dropped military enlistment to the lowest level since Vietnam, a new coined term and - poof - millions of "islamo-fascists", more destroyed jobs and lowered wage standards while increasing inflation rates, no expectation of privacy (for our own protection), automated and streamlined war and hurricane profiteering, more time vacationing than any other president (with still over a year left in office), totally blew any chance we had of fixing or reducing global warming by ignoring it, wrote more signing statements (equivalent to a line-item veto) than any other president times ten (look it up), the man who brought us Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, Michael Chertoff, John Negroponte (again), John Bolton, Michael Brown(ie), Hariet Miers, Scooter Libby, Jack Abramoff, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, ... That's just the things I can think of off the top of my head.

So now there are polls saying the doddering old fool and the slow-witted gun-toting milf are running neck and neck against the most charismatic, intelligent and experienced democratic ticket we've ever seen; two guys that ooze integrity from every pore. If you could get Ward Cleaver and Jim Anderson to run together (or even Hugh Beaumont and Robert Young), you couldn't have a more powerful, all-American, family-man duo than Obama-Biden. So what's the deal? Half the country must be brain dead or at least hypnotized by some evil entity that tells them Democrats are like syphilus. Vote for anything but...

It's working so well, they've given up trying to find a good presidential-ish candidate. It's all a game. In the next election they're going to nominate a monkey and a bowling ball and they're still going to win.