Okay, while I'm prone to extreme angst, I'm not nearly as angsty as this song. I just love me some Bob Forrest/Thelonious Monster, and, let's face it, this Republican primary stuff is stupid.
It's a circus. The weirdest part of the past week hasn't even been how Stephen Colbert transferred his Super PAC to Jon Stewart so that he could encourage people to vote for Herman Cain in the South Carolina primary. (South Carolina does not allow write-ins, and by the time a poll revealed that Stephen Colbert was leading Jon Huntsman in South Carolina polls 6% to 5%, it was weeks too late to file, so Stephen Colbert encouraged people to vote for Herman Cain as his proxy.) And then Herman Cain got 1% of the vote, or more than the other three dropped out candidates combined.
The longer this goes on, the more disdain I have for almost all of the candidates. I've hated Santorum from the outset, because it is impossible for me to respect someone who frequently compares homosexuality to bestiality, incest, or pedophilia. Newt Gingrich is a scummy, hypocritical, racist human being who has embarrassed his party and congresspeople in the past but is somehow a breath away from his party's nomination anyway. Mitt Romney continues to waffle, and this business with his taxes doesn't make me nearly as peeved as the way he has talked about his taxes. (He says, I don't think you'd want a president who paid more taxes than he should legally. We should say, You fought hard and lobbied hard to keep your tax rate there. And then you turn around and criticize the poorest Americans who pay no income tax because they want to live in a welfare state. I have to agree with Jon Stewart and just point out that poor people have [crappy] lobbyists.)
Oh, Mitt. I was on your side up until now. Now I hardly care if Newt wipes the floor with you.
So where does that leave me? Ron Paul? I'm a liberal, for crying out loud, so I don't have to like any of these guys, but it depresses me that the only person I can respect in the field as a decent, consistent person and politician is the person with whom I possibly agree the least. It depresses me that it's January and I already know who I'm voting for in November, no questions asked, and I'm not even that jazzed about the guy. At least I know he shares most of my values and I feel like he really does do his best most of the time and I agree with him on more than a couple of issues.
This election cycle blows. But here's another Thelonious Monster song because I'm hardcore loving them right now. And this song is perfect for today.
1 comments:
Just cry with me that Huntsman is gone. He was the most sane.
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