Posted on 12/01/2011 10:55:08 AM PST by Cardhu
The Republicans' Farcical Candidates
The US Republican race is dominated by ignorance, lies and scandals. The current crop of candidates have shown such a basic lack of knowledge that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein. The Grand Old Party is ruining the entire country's reputation.
Africa is a country. In Libya, the Taliban reigns. Muslims are terrorists; most immigrants are criminal; all Occupy protesters are dirty. And women who feel sexually harassed -- well, they shouldn't make such a big deal about it.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the US Republicans. Or rather, to the twisted world of what they call their presidential campaigns. For months now, they've been traipsing around the country with their traveling circus, from one debate to the next, one scandal to another, putting themselves forward for what's still the most powerful job in the world.
As it turns out, there are no limits to how far they will stoop.
It's true that on the road to the White House all sorts of things can happen, and usually do. No campaign can avoid its share of slip-ups, blunders and embarrassments. Yet this time around, it's just not that funny anymore. In fact, it's utterly horrifying.
It's horrifying because these eight so-called, would-be candidates are eagerly ruining not only their own reputations and that of their party, the party of Lincoln lore. Worse: They're ruining the reputation of the United States.
'Freakshow'
They lie. They cheat. They exaggerate. They bluster. They say one idiotic, ignorant, outrageous thing after another. They've shown such stark lack of knowledge -- political, economic, geographic, historical -- that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein and even cause their fellow Republicans to cringe.
"When did the GOP lose touch with reality?" wonders Bush's former speechwriter David Frum
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Have at it
The Germans need to be paying their taxes.
Lazy Greeks and Italians need the money.
I see.
"Bush's fault" is getting old, so we're moving on to "Santorum's fault."
Sarah Palin ought to travel to Germany and kick this homo, Marc Pitzke’s, a$$.
This, coming from a country recently led by the corrupt communist Gerhard Schroeder, and mere decades ago by a certain mustachioed Nazi.
Keep it to yourselves, Germans. You have WAYYY too much national baggage and faulty electoral judgment to criticize.
German pride socialist economy must be hurt... they are running back to Sieg Heil topics our liberals will be all to happy to pick up for their own campaign of Zero favoritism.
The neo-Nazis at Der Spiegel need to STFU.
The entire planet should ignore anything that any German has to say about anything, until Germany proves it can go 100 years without shoving people in ovens.
Pretty lame. The best he can come up with for dismayed Republicans are Frum and Noonan. Is this Olbermann’s long lost twin?
Amen to that. I found Germany to be a beautiful country. It`d be even more enjoyable without 50% of its populace.
There’s a bit of truth here (and some stretchers). But for all that, none of them are anywhere near as bad as Obama.
Europe is afraid that if the current anti-American in the White House gets booted, that a Pro-American President wouldn’t bail out Europe.
Hmmmm, interesting, anyone heard this?
Oh them socialist krauts, just like our liberals at home. Every election they pretend they want what is best for the USA, every war they cheer for American soldiers to be killed.
I’m a foreign observer (a lazy Italian) and have been thoroughly enjoying the goings-on of the Republican warm-up. - also because the EU and Banks Inc. effectively killed Italian politics replacing our own colorful characters with dull-gray technocrats who report to Commissars.
I can’t imagine what Der Spiegel is talking about. Sure, it’s far from perfect and like sausage making sometimes it’s not pretty, but at least the stuff gets bashed about. There are exposès, interviews, live debates, townhall meetings, spoofs, insinuations, vetting... the works. By the end of it, Americans will have a pretty clear idea of whom to vote for while holding their nose... IMO a better way to vote than the previous insane, flaring-nostril - leg-tingling enthusiasm for the likes of Mr. This-is the-day-the Oceans-receded. If anything THAT’S when America lost her exceptionalism, which used to be horse sense.
The Germans in their great numbers, but also most Europeans, even Italians, fell for the Hope and Change baloney with even greater mindlessness. This time around there’s lots more serious politics involved. Perhaps the Der Spiegel pundits were missing all the Obamian ENTHUSIASM of 2008. Whatever the reason, they can be ignored... the Republicans have an interesting field
The simple truth is that the people here are exposed to a distorted version of America and after years and years of this they entertain the most outlandish even conspiratorial notions of America. A few years ago a poll revealed that an astonishingly high number of Germans believe that the United States government crashed its own towers on 9/11.
I was speaking to a well-educated and highly intelligent attorney last night who solemnly advised me that George Bush pressured Secretary of State Colin Powell into lying before the Security Council about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This was offered not as a debatable point but as a predicate upon which to build the rest of the conversation. It was not a debatable point but a matter of context.
When I go into the bookstore in the local community where they often devote a table to American politics, I have never seen a single book that supports George Bush or supports a conservative view of America. Virtually all of them bash America up and down except for the likes of Barack Obama.
If you read the whole article from Der Spiegel you will see that the author is well enough acquainted with American politics to possess a certain facility in distorting reality. You can imagine how disadvantaged and vulnerable are most Germans are who do not have the time to penetrate the language barrier and get the real facts.
We have seen this among our own people who presumably speak the mother tongue.
I thought this would be about the MSNBC lineup.
Of course, Progressives are brilliant geniuses, as are
our beloved President, Vice President, and all Progressives in both houses of Congress and throughout the country.
Rupblicans are knuckle-dragging, bible-thumping, gun-loving, stupid, simplistic, ignorant morons.
/s/
AH! from the pages of “Der Schadenfreude”..
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