Willard Romney may be the worst liar on the planet, a dull and wooden person who is out of touch with regular folks, and not very good at giving interviews. He may have a record of changing his positions more often than I change channels, but he’s
nowhere near as stupid as some of the other Republicans in the race.
I’ve been on Herman Cain’s back for a couple of days now, so I won’t belabor the point, but hoooboy, is he dumb. Then there’s Rick Perry, who said in a recent speech to students in New Hampshire “Those of you that will be 21 by November the 12th, I ask for your support and your vote. Those of you who won’t be, just work hard.” (the voting age is 18. The election will be on November 6th.)
With those two competing with each other for the stupid vote, poor Michele Bachmann is just starved for attention. So she fired off a couple of stupid bombs of her own. First was some paranoid drivel about how not teaching creationism in science class is suppression of free speech, which is sort of like saying that not teaching Home Economics in Shop class, or not teaching English in Math class is a violation of free speech, but we’ll leave that aside for now. She also said that if she were president “We wouldn’t have an embassy in Iran. I wouldn’t allow that to be there.” The only problem with that statement is that the U.S. hasn’t had an embassy in Iran since 1979, when Carter was president.
She says she was quoted out of context, that of course she knows the U.S. doesn’t have an embassy in Iran. But she wasn’t. And she didn’t.
So, she may not be quite as boneheadedly ignorant as Perry the Rain King, but she sure is trying.
