Rock bottom, coming up

If the current crop of Republican candidates is not bad enough we now can look forward to new lows. I mean, Guiliani, Thompson, Romney, Huckabee, et al, are all pretty bad when looked at very closely. Guiliani is little more than an opportunistic crook, Thompson reminds me of a giant dumb beast, Romney is a Mormon who can't distinguish between truth and fiction. Huckabee is, well, Huckabee. But now (drum roll) Allen Keyes has said he will enter the race. Hooray, a new and exciting candidate, except for the fact that he is an ultra right-wing lunatic that couldn't get elected dogcatcher anywhere except maybe in an asylum someplace. But not to worry, our savior may be about to arrive on his white horse. Yes, I mean him, Newt Gingrich, the pompous, pedantic, professorial, patronizing, pontificator. The guy Republicans think of as one of their real idea guys. Newt's strong points include blatant, shameful hypocrisy, lying, and admitted adultery. He thinks the latter shouldn't be held against him because he didn't lie about it. I think he also originated the idea that oral sex wasn't really cheating on his wife (although in Clinton's case he thought it was). He was, as you may recall, forced out of Congress because of certain indiscretions having to do with money, among other things. He also distinguished himself by serving divorce papers on his first wife while she was in he hospital with cancer. See, a real diplomatic type. Apparently he is willing to sacrifice himself on the altar of the Presidency to save us from Hillary, said to be his worst enemy (when convenient, that is, hypocrites don't really have enemies). He does make Guiliani look like a piker when it comes to women, and at least he's ambitious when compared to the big dumb beast who can't be bothered to know or remember anything and is said to be lazy. He's a much bigger and better liar than Romney and he's not a Mormon. I don't know if he believes in evolution or not. My impression is he believes in anything that will work to his advantage at the moment. He plans to travel around talking with people and trying to raise money. I would love to see him as the Republican candidate for President but I kind of doubt that even Republicans can be that stupid (I could easily be very wrong about this, and one can only hope).

I am beginning to worry about underwear. It seems that some of the prisoners at Guantanamo are wearing underwear that is not the approved issue. What a scandal! Where did this illicit underwear come from? Who gave it to them? Was their regular GI underwear so uncomfortable they complained and arranged to have new underwear smuggled in? There is, I suppose, cause for alarm, for if underwear can be smuggled in, what else might be? That is precisely why I am so worried about this deplorable situation. Think of all the things one might want smuggled into a prison. I don't know about you, but for me underwear would not be a high priority item. So why did someone only smuggle in underwear? You see the problem - it just doesn't make sense. There has to be more here than meets the eye. This is probably going to keep me up all night. Never mind habeas corpus, torture and injustice, the fact that we are being universally condemned for Guantanamo, this underwear fiasco is really important.

LKBIQ:
"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life."
Rachel Carson