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Politics is boring
By Ned | August 17, 2007
Our national discourse has hit a pretty astonishing high in terms of vapidity, and one of my worst fears is that it hasn’t even peaked yet. But sometimes I’ll read some so vapid, so unbelievably astonishingly stupid about the presidential race that it will catch me completely off guard.
“Can you imagine what debates are going to be like with great big Andrew Jackson-looking Fred and Hillary on her stubby little legs, stamping her feet?” Thompson, if elected, would be the tallest president ever. Republicans are not just looking for the usual John Wayne-type signifiers as they go about selecting a candidate, but thinking about who can best loom over Hillary Clinton and make her look like a shrill, small, silly little woman. Thompson’s booming voice will make her “sound like Madame Defarge.”
Does the guy who said this, apparently a “leading figure in the Iowa Republican Party” even give a shit about policy? Is there any ideological or philosophical reason why he’s a Republican? Does he have the slightest interest in actual politics?
I’ve learned to expect this sort of thing from stupid people in general, but when the stupid person in question is a professional political operative (which the description seems to indicate) this sort of thing becomes absolutely shocking.
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