Is it just me, but I can’t seem to understand why these people are taken seriously and elected into office….

Horrible. These people are the epitome of disturbed. They are truly horrible.

Pay attention, my children, and I shall tell you why there are conspiracy crazies, paranoid people and rubber-room Republicans who need nothing so much as a ride home and a loooong course of tranquilizer therapy. First, we have this thing we call Media. Media exists solely to have you and me and everyone else look at it. (Not participate in it, that’s a different thing.) If we don’t look at it, Media kinda withers up and blows across the prairie like a tumbleweed: very forlorn. (And broke. Ad dollars are what keeps Media alive and healthy) So Media tries to evolve. It tries to evolve to a condition whereby it is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to NOT look at it, thereby guaranteeing the flow of Ad dollars. Social darwinism being the vile and disgusting thing that it is, Media has evolved to the point where sensationalism and controversy are the only things it knows will reliably work in keeping your (and mine and everyone else’s) attention firmly focused on it. In short, it’s much more exciting (and profitable) to tell outrageous lies. You may have noticed that a certain Media outlet known as Fox News has a distinct (one might say incontrovertible) tendency to tell those outrageous lies because PEOPLE LISTEN TO THE LIES AND BELIEVE THEM.

Why in the same of sanity would anyone WANT to listen to outrageous lies? Oh, there are several theories: it’s reassuring. (WTF?!?) True! If you’re already afraid of something and someone tells you not to be afraid of it because it doesn’t exist, it doesn’t reassure you. In fact, it tends to make you feel pretty darn foolish and who wants to feel foolish AND scared? So if someone tells you to go ahead and believe in the boogeyman, then there is a certain sense of satisfaction in that concept: see, I TOLD you so! There are many other theories. Guilt is one: I’ve been bad and I have to be punished for it and all those Commies under my bed are here to do just that. But the eggheads all agree that believing in lies is WAY more exciting than believing in the truth because the truth, after all, is really boring, right? (Actually it isn’t, but there’s a certain kind of myopia that sets in after believing the lies for a while. Think of it as a kind of co-morbidity: most folks can’t tell the truth from the lies because their brains have been kind of Tazered by outrageousness. ) Also, scared people are a lot easier to control than calm people who have time to think about something. (“Buy gold! It’s the only thing that will save your family after the Apocalypse!”)

So let’s recap, kids: Media tells outrageous lies because it’s exciting, reassuring, generates ad dollars and controls folks who are too damn scared to think straight. It’s a lovely racket, kids.

Don’t you wish that you had a piece of that pie? If you do, then you’re probably a Republican.

Sadly, I do believe it and am not at all suprised.

CLEAN HOUSE
Federal employees cannot accept promises or anything with an actual monetary value
Pass this law will be best thing to clean out Congress and White House.
It will close K Street Bribery.
No campaign money.
Fed funds campaigns over 6 months (3 primary-3 general) with free equal tv time and a debate a week =12 =adequate to evaluate candidates.

True Progressive tax system. Burn tax book. Start anew. Must justify need for exemptions in public hearings. Keep Koch type out of influencing our officials.

It’s not as though we’ve gone over 60 years without war, but we have gone over 60 years without the wide wars that defined the first half of the last century. Do they credit only mutually assured destruction? Do they deny that the United Nations, which we sponsored and which has its home here, has prevented at least some wars, and aids the victims of those it could not, or is it that which makes them mad?

How does a lunatic like this get elected? It’s frightening to know there are that many crazy people in our country. Very frightening. They are determined to ruin us all, and shame us to the world.

Could we PLEASE elect some educated, thinking people for a change. WE HAVE an educated, thinking president, who is aware of the world. These idiots obviously have never studied anything, read a thing about the world or this country, and they actually “serve” in our government. Can’t we maybe elect some 13 or 14 year olds who CAN think?

The single unifying thread sown (yes, pun intended) by all five? Fear. Grab hold of your constituents’ favorite possession — property, guns, religion, whatever — and let those constituents know that your candidacy ensures a fight against any and all attempts (however outlandish the claims) to abridge those rights, to restrict or remove those possessions.

The sad part is the even greater number, the hundreds of thousands, of loonies who fall for this stuff.

The great thing about freedom of speech, is that it allows people to speak their minds; in the case of these sub-morons, it lets the rest of us see EXACTLY what kind of utter insanity is going on in their heads. Better that it’s out in the open, rather than hidden from view and secret.

The only thing that worries me more than what they say, is what they DON’T say; how nuts is the stuff that remains unsaid?

With Barak as president and hilary as Sec of State all of these officals are more right than wrong

No Wonder

You have Bachmann, Santorum, and Paul, plus you have Cain, Perry, Gingrich, and last but not least Romney carrying the GOP party banner and everyone wonders why the old, old, used up and dying GOP can’t win an election much above local dog catcher.

Come people, if the GOP would cut loose and come up with candidates who have half a brain and a little less weirdo in them, then maybe, just maybe they could win an election and cut their loosing string of eight out of the last nine national elections.

THIS is why the Republicans lost, not Mitt Romney! They just don’t get it!! When jokers like this speak out then everyone knows you have too many “kooks” in your party to ever be taken seriously. Just think back to the crap that some of these idiots said! AND people voted these fools into office, sometimes more than once.

First, I can understand Ron Paul’s affliction but Cornyn? Now Cruz? And this is just on one issue.. Is it the water? The Beeffalo, or do Texas politicians have to pass an idiocy test in order to become mindless dolts? Maybe Dubya knows the answer to that question.

Hard to understand how people can follow these people, funny how they all seem to be in the GOP.

I, too, am amazed. They can’t be that dumb…it has to be some graft conspiracy.