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Finally we are getting towards the end of all the Bullshit.

Orthodox wisdom now says that the republican primary is down to Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.

The best that can be said of Mr. Romney is that he’s a known quantity. I’ve been watching his career due to his being my governor for a number of years and I can assure you he’s probably not crazy.

But that brings us to some of the stupid things he’s been saying, which brings us to the stupid things all of the men (with the exception of Ron Paul and John Huntsman,) running for the republican primary have been saying.

What you are watching are a bunch of people who are unqualified for the job of president unwilling to admit it. The other reason this shit show has been dragging on so long is because the media, feckless as it currently is will not point out that many of these people, almost all of them, in fact, should never have been taken seriously as candidates. Fox is the exception, fox is instead actively trying to make people newthink themselves into an altogether different reality, but that’s an issue for a different blog post.

The republican orthodoxies are so reactionary that you can predict them before you hear them based off of what the democrats said last week.

The world view expressed by the candidates ignores everything that admits to republican fallibility, and also those things which admit that the democrats have had some good idea’s. Which means everyone  tries to out conservative the competition. Which means in edition to hearing people say goddamned stupid things you can keep in the back of your mind that these aren’t  even necessarily what the candidates believe. In a primary, where voters are either far left or far right, depending on whether the primary is democratic or republican, candidates lie to try and get the largest chunk of votes from the people voting in the primary elections. The disturbing part is that this crazy train is attracting, rather than repelling to the super conservatives. Whoever wins will begin refuting half of the things they are saying now so as to start lying to people like me in the Spring.

Which brings us to Hermin Cain, the republicans Obama substitute. All that can be said for him is that he came up even shorter than did their substitute for Hillary Clinton.

What you see, the foolishness of it all, and the lackluster field and the beginning of the actual campaign with Mit Romni already chopping up bits of the presidents speeches to make him say things he never actually did should depress us. Watch the final debate. Tell me how many of those people you would pat on the shoulder, say “good job” to and ignore for eight years in office. How many of them can you honestly tell me have what it takes?

You might be wondering what it takes. Well, John huntsman had what it takes. He is an orthodox party conservative, and you can’t understand what beautiful music that sounds like to my ears at this point.

Huntsman has a problem. He’s boring. So he’s out. Because the other thing you need in most political races is charisma by the shit ton. Huntsman doesn’t have this.

But As we have seen over the last several months of embarrassments, who forgot what this week? Charisma isn’t all a person needs. Mit Romni, Hermin Cain, and all the people in the race are charismatic to varying degrees. None as charismatic as Sarah Paylin or Obama, but still, they have enough oomph to get people out to see them which is more than huntsman can say.

Yesterday I watched Donald Trump say if  his preferred candidate didn’t win the primary he would enter the race as an independent, and at this point I don’t see how it could hurt. Trump made a billion dollars. That’s a good resume, and whoever wins this stupid primary won’t have a good chance of beating Obama anyway.

Here’s what people won’t say. Obama is five times smarter than anyone in that primary field with the exceptions of Mit romni, Ron Paul, who it must be said is too old and too libertarian to be the president of this country, and John Huntsman. In Romni’s case the deficit is one of integrity.

Further, it is not because all republicans are dumb that we’re currently in this fix. Its because  the voters in republican primaries are  dumb, and moving farther to the right every year, and because this crop of candidates is in the main idiots that we find ourselves here.

The party is against things like ivy league schools and nuance. It is against people who look smart. Its no longer a good thing to get up on stage and tell people anything involving unpalatable truths or complex idea’s. Its god and lost jobs that will come back if you vote for me. Its shoot from the hip. Its a president that’s a lot like you.

When this is what a party warps into, what you see on stage rather than someone like Ike or ragen is Rick Parry, Michel Bachman, Herman Cain, and all the others.

There are few conservative intellectuals today. There used to be many. William F. Buckley and Milton Freedman and Berry Goldwater. Now the closest thing we have to a republican intellectual  is Newt Gingrich who is too busy rewriting history to learn from it.  I can’t say what happened because I don’t know but its a recent development. We used to have conservatives in this country who had come up with beliefs based on watching the world.

Being conservative is watching some democrat who wants to spend half a billion dollars on something when the fifty million we’re currently spending isn’t being used properly. A conservative sees that and wonders, but what’s going on with the money we’re already spending?

A conservative is someone who recognizes that large bureaucrats is usually inefficient, and wants organizations to be smaller and to work on the local level. Being conservative is a belief that informs other beliefs. Being republican is hating the things the democrats like.

And  now we don’t have conservatives, we have republicans.

And the republican party is two things at this juncture. Reactionary, that is, its policies and party platform are not knew. They are crafted based on what the democrats are doing and whatever the democrats are doing, republicans will not do, to the point of taking the opisit side of positions they were for when the democrats were not advertising there agreement so as not to give the democrats legislative victories.

The second thing the party is old, and the third thing this means the party is a little racist. How much I don’t know, but its best we just get it all out there right now, so we can talk about it honestly.

Barack Obama got 96 percent of the black vote in 2008. Republicans will probably claim that as reverse racism, or equally as bad as whites who voted for Mccein in protest.

But Obama got 96 percent of the black vote because he was the first black guy who had a  real chance of winning. Every other time in every other presidential election since blacks got the vote all black votes have gone to white people.

Reverse this. When whites are given an opportunity to vote for someone of a different race from their own, in some southern states it was shown that this became more of a factor for whites than political party.

This ads another de mention to the republican party. Because a certain type of republican vote doesn’t have anything to do with how we’re going to shrink the debt and fix the economy. Instead some republicans are voting the back in time ticket. This doesn’t really exist is the thing. Even if we all lost our minds and elected Rick Santorom president in 2012, the odds of ushering in his dream, one where gays and the moral equivalents of them, people who fuck dogs, are stoned to death like in biblical times, are low enough that I’d be more sickened than worried, there are people who still want this.

Its not the fact that some guys picking lettuce for three dollars an hour. Americans don’t want those jobs.  Its the fact that now theirs Spanish on the radio that’s bothering some people.

That’s what I tell myself anyway because otherwise I’m not sure what the appeal of these candidates is.

Here’s the rule. Screw up once, I get it. Call the capital of Iran Baghdad or Kabul once, OK, we’re all busy, it happens. Do it twice, I get it. Get the fourth and fifth amendments confused, or forget one of three of the ways you plan to cut back government spending, that’s fine. We’re all human. We all have said and will  continue to make mental gaffs.

But there’s a point where you have to throw up your hands and say, “that guys stupid. Or at least not president of the United States material.” If someone walks and talks like a dumbass for months, you know what? they’re a dumbass!

Herman Cain shouldn’t have dropped out because he had an affair, or because he had four affairs. Gingrich already had affairs! Whatever. Cain should have dropped out when he said that the constitution would allow him to fire every Muslim in the government when, in a bit of irony that only makes me sad, it protects against that very thing.

And this is what happens when people want to elect themselves to office. I woke up today and I couldn’t remember who the British prime minister is. Once you realize you know you know something but have forgotten it it drives you crazy. So I spent twenty minutes trying to remember.

I then got to thinking about how its really fine that I don’t know because I’m not going to be using that information today. Probably won’t be using it tomorrow now that you mention it.

But every presidential nominee should know things like that. They should be smarter than you and I. They should be the person we brag with by putting him in the spotlight. Like check out this guy. . And he should be up on his shit. Why do I even have to say this?

If the dude whose running for president is asked a political question and he doesn’t know the answer , and you know you know, then that’s the hint to you that this dude’s a fucking moron.

There are over three hundred million people in this country. Most of us don’t know all the things we’d need to know to be a good president, and, in the main, this is fine, as we’re not running. The problem is that when people run, they need to be held to high standards. They need to be examined on what they say, and when they start sounding like what it might sound like if we let a guy who got a d- in his high school civics class run for office, someone should tell everyone else that no one should  vote for the guy.

And then I remember I’m in a crazy world. Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich are doing better than a guy with a totally interesting political platform, Ron Paul. Where Hermin Cain has an affair and no one is surprised because we’ve seen it at least a hundred times already yet he drops out when he should have dropped out before he was in to begin with. A world where people whose problem is that they are already too conservative fight to be even more so. It’ll be a matter of days before someone gets rid of the motorcade and arrives to the next speech or debate on a black stallion with eight armored dudes on identical horses as an honor guard. .

I just want to point it out again. This is what happens when dumb people are running for office.

None of these people are bad. Cain owned pizza places, and was making a lot of money. He was Mayer of Atlanta. Probably perfectly qualified for that. Rick Parry seems stupid enough that I fear for Texas, but Bush JR was governor of Texas first, so they’re used to it. The point is that most of these people are just way over their pay grade. So I blog about it.