Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I'm not sure that 'Vote for me, I'm not completely eye-poppingly splutteringly chicken-explodingly insane' should really count as an election winning platform.
Edwards comes closes to having a real message. The others seem like more walking examples of triangulated expediency - tough on populism, tough on the causes of populism.
I still haven't forgiven Gore for not stepping up to the plate. Not that he would have been perfect, but he might have been less likely to drive right off the cliff without trying to turn the engine off.
After all, cadence is everything. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
H'mmmm. Well. Yeah. And if the average political reporter, average commentator, and average voter in the US had the average intelligence of the average turnip it wouldn't be that effective.
But with the GOPs field is running around proclaiming, "Vote for me! I am completely eye-poppingly splutteringly chicken-explodingly insane."
It works.
