Posted on 06/11/2010 3:47:05 AM PDT by Scanian
For the last few days, we've heard about how this is the Year of the Republican Woman. It may also prove to be the Year of the Oddball.
Nevada's Republican Senate candidate, Sharron Angle, has, knowingly or not, served as a front for the Scientology cult and its preposterous system for reforming American prisons. Kentucky's GOP Senate candidate, Rand Paul, first said he wasn't really sure about the necessity of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, then said he was sure in a way that indicated he probably still wasn't.
Connecticut's Republican Senate candidate, Linda McMahon, got immensely rich off the highly questionable Fake Wrestling business. South Carolina's Democratic Senate candidate, Alvin Greene, is charged with showing pornographic pictures to an underage girl.
We'll learn more as the year progresses about the eccentricities of these seekers of public office -- more, given the nature of politics in the Internet/YouTube age, than they could have imagined would be known about them.
Still, those eccentricities are as likely to seem endearing as invalidating: They might make these semi-amateurs appear more genuine, less a marketing product -- and in a year when politicians are in worse odor than they have ever been, that could prove a decisive advantage.
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Get used to it, John. Some call it refreshing. The era of the Establishment control of ideas is dying.
100% right - and it’s not going down swinging.
The left assigns the term “oddball” to those that love and understand the Founders and their vision... well **** all of these leftist trash infecting America.
LLS
The point is that the current candidates are odd? Has the writer taken a look at the clowns who have served in congress over the past 50 years? We have a Klansman still serving, we have a tax Chairman who doesn’t know how or when to file his taxes. We have a congressman who allowed a gay prostitution ring to work out of his DC apartment. The list is long.
“Rand Paul, first said he wasn’t really sure about the necessity of the 1964 Civil Rights Act”
I didn’t hear what he said but the reports I did hear said he thought the act went too far in interfering in private businesses like restaurants. If that’s true then this article is wrong.
If normal Americans are oddballs, what are Nazi Pelosi and Dirtbag Harry and the rest of the DNC Freakshow?
Pray for America
“e point is that the current candidates are odd? Has the writer taken a look at the clowns who have served in congress over the past 50 years? We have a Klansman still serving, we have a tax Chairman who doesn’t know how or when to file his taxes. We have a congressman who allowed a gay prostitution ring to work out of his DC apartment. The list is long.”
You are so right, and they are all led by a dysfunctional Chicago street agitator (community organizer) who is a Communist and a Muslim and has no experience (or ability) running anything.
I'd like to know what questions Podhoretz has about the wrestling business.
Don’t forget the buck-toothed moron from Minnesota...
Right on.
And one of my sigs:
Protect your privacy. Replace Google with IXQUICK at www.ixquick.com.
If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our
neighbor’s right to freedom even though he might express that freedom
in a manner we consider to be eccentric.
The effects it has on our yoots are very questionable.
Sure they’re peculiar. But they take all the right positions on the issues, so who cares? /s
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