I thought this blog entry from The Washington Monthly was somehow terribly appropriate.First read these snippets (or whole post if you'd like)
"About mid-way through the ad, during a litany of accusations against Mitt Romney, Huckabee criticizes his rival with this data point: "No executions."
Apparently, Huckabee -- you know, the evangelical, pro-life Republican -- is going after Romney for not having executed any Americans during his gubernatorial tenure.
I realize Republican politics are far more crass than norms should allow, but it's disconcerting to think "You didn't kill anyone" has suddenly become a criticism in conservative circles."
Ummmm...do you think that Huck really doesn't know that Massachusetts doesn't have a death penalty?
Guest editorialist Steve Benen (blog,bio) is just as amazed as I am that it has become so blatant for Republicans to criticize one another for not killing enough people....but if you think that just Huckabee reached the lowest a Republican candidate could go...well, think again.....Steve points out on his blog that Romney, in a desperate race to justify the millions spent on his own campaign, reaches back to that old, Republican standby, the Lewinsky Scandal, to mine for more votes of the Republican Faithful.
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Romney:“We’ll try and represent ourselves and our nation well also to our kids because I think, I think kids watch the White House and there have been failures in the past in the White House — if you go back to the Clinton years and recognize that — that I think had an enormous impact on the culture of our country,” Romney said. “And we’ll do our very best, our whole family will to — well, if we can’t be perfect, we’ll do our best to uphold and to be a good example for the kinds of values I think people expect from our leaders.”
Steve:Wow, that sure is dumb.
The Lewinsky scandal had an “enormous impact” undermining American culture? Seriously?
The silliness goes on and on and on..........in Iowa
I happen to like to pick on Republicans but there has been an equal amount of silliness on the Democratic side....with each candidate trying desperately to play "gotcha!" on the others...especially between the three perceived front-runners: Clinton, Obama and Edwards.
But the most fascinating thing to me is the "undecideds" and the people who have changed their mind in just the last few days. CNN interviewed some of these people who were changing their vote after being polled over the weekend. Apparently the polls say that a WHOPPING 35% of the polled voters said thay could be convinced to vote for another candidate before the final caucus on Thursday night.
Doesn't that tell us something?
Of course it does. It tells us that nobody is happy with our choices this year and that there isn't a knight in shining armor who is riding in to rescue us from our fate at the hands of the Neocons....and I think that pertains to BOTH PARTIES.
Why the "Pogo" graphic? Because Pogo was right when he said, " We have met the enemy, and he is US."
